Author: GARDNER, Isabella
Title: Birthdays from the Ocean
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter faux vellum with black spine lettering and green pictorial paper over boards. xii, 43pp. Very good. Faint binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine. Handsome first edition of the first of this poet's four verse collections, boldly inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf: "June 9th, 1955 / For my friend, Bob / Kasanof with loving / best wishes / from / Belle." Wife of poet Allen Tate, cousin of poet Robert Lowell and great-niece of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gardner was a poet and actress and co-editor of "Poetry" magazine. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: Birthdays from the Ocean
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter faux vellum with black spine lettering and green pictorial paper over boards. xii, 43pp. Very good. Faint binding wear only, else tight and internally near fine. Handsome first edition of the first of this poet's four verse collections, boldly inscribed and signed large and bold in black ink on front flyleaf: "June 9th, 1955 / For my friend, Bob / Kasanof with loving / best wishes / from / Belle." Wife of poet Allen Tate, cousin of poet Robert Lowell and great-niece of art collector Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gardner was a poet and actress and co-editor of "Poetry" magazine. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 45.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 51018
- Book number: 51018
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