Author: MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT
Title: Conversation at Midnight
Description: NY and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated First Edition, First Printing (First Trade Edition after the Limited Edition). Harper's first edition code "F-M" - June, 1937). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over blue paper boards, paper label on spine, blue and black title page. During winter and spring of 1936, Millay worked on Conversation at Midnight, which she had been planning for several years. But soon after reaching a hotel on Sanibel Island, Florida, she saw the building in flames and knew her manuscript had been destroyed. Upon her return to her home at Steepletop, she began to call up the material from memory and write it down. Other misfortunes followed. "A sequence of poems that gives daring and provocative expression in dialogue to the thought of our times." Conversation at Midnight is a work of dramatic verse that falls somewhere in the space between a narrative poem and a theatrical drama. The text features the conversations of seven distinguished men who are having after-dinner discussions in a comfortable dining room in New York City. Although the text uses only a minimal amount of descriptive narrative, Millay structured Conversations at Midnight to "create the illusion of actual conversation, which often abruptly abandons one topic to take up another," and encourages her readers to think of the work as "...dialogue throughout, to think of it in terms of a play...". Paper label moderately worn, spine mildly sunned, top edge of cover very lightly sunned, front hinge separated at half title only, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xv, (iii), 126 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry; Fiction; First Editions; Poets; Millay; Theater; Plays; Theatre & Performing Arts Novels, Poetry & Literature Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
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Title: Conversation at Midnight
Description: NY and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1937. First Printing. Hard Cover. Stated First Edition, First Printing (First Trade Edition after the Limited Edition). Harper's first edition code "F-M" - June, 1937). Quarter bound in publisher's black cloth over blue paper boards, paper label on spine, blue and black title page. During winter and spring of 1936, Millay worked on Conversation at Midnight, which she had been planning for several years. But soon after reaching a hotel on Sanibel Island, Florida, she saw the building in flames and knew her manuscript had been destroyed. Upon her return to her home at Steepletop, she began to call up the material from memory and write it down. Other misfortunes followed. "A sequence of poems that gives daring and provocative expression in dialogue to the thought of our times." Conversation at Midnight is a work of dramatic verse that falls somewhere in the space between a narrative poem and a theatrical drama. The text features the conversations of seven distinguished men who are having after-dinner discussions in a comfortable dining room in New York City. Although the text uses only a minimal amount of descriptive narrative, Millay structured Conversations at Midnight to "create the illusion of actual conversation, which often abruptly abandons one topic to take up another," and encourages her readers to think of the work as "...dialogue throughout, to think of it in terms of a play...". Paper label moderately worn, spine mildly sunned, top edge of cover very lightly sunned, front hinge separated at half title only, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xv, (iii), 126 pp. Very Good with no dust jacket .
Keywords: Poetry; Fiction; First Editions; Poets; Millay; Theater; Plays; Theatre & Performing Arts Novels, Poetry & Literature Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books
Price: US$ 80.00 Seller: Round Table Books, LLC
- Book number: 27387
- Book number: 27387
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