DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990)

The Black Book : An Agon

Paris, The Obelisk Press, 1938. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. True First Edition (with error in pagination at pp. 114-118), second issue (with erratum slip tipped onto title page), of Durrell's first significant novel and the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series, founded by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence and Nancy Durrell. 8vo (212 x 148mm): [10],11-260,[2]pp. As with all copies, pp. 114-118 were printed out of order (though paginated sequentially), with the correct sequence of text (pp. 114, 117, 115, 116, 118) written in holograph at foot of each affected page). Publisher's pale green heavy wrappers with French flaps (price of 75 Francs neatly blacked out on front flap), front panel with pale pink rectangle and obelisk motif, spine printed in black, bottom edge trimmed, others rough-trimmed. Small bookseller's label to fly-leaf (Librairie Sinfonia, 68, Champs Elysées, Paris). Gentle lightening to spine, light wear to extremities, mild tanning to about a third of page margins (as usual), a few leaves roughly opened (several with short marginal tears, far from letterpress). An excellent example of this fragile production. Miers & Armstrong 60. Potter & Whiting 19. Thomas & Brigham A8. Pearson A-56. Durrell's first major work, written in the mid-1930's under the influence of Henry Miller and the Surrealist movement; the work in which Durrell later claimed to have "first heard the sound of [his] own voice." T. S. Eliot's endorsement on the front flap, calling The Black Book the "first piece of work to give me any hope for the future of prose fiction," is somewhat suspect praise, given that Eliot was Durrell's editor at Faber & Faber, which would not print The Black Book without expurgating its frank language and explicit sexual content, a compromise that Henry Miller persuaded Durrell to reject. Thomas & Brigham never encountered a copy with the erratum slip, suggesting "that it was not added until a number of copies had been dispatched," and in our experience the so-called second issue is more scarce than the first. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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DURRELL, Lawrence (1912-1990); T. Wallace Southam

Nothing Is Lost, Sweet Self : No. 1 in a Series of Contemporary Poetry Set to Music [Signed, with Proof Sheets Laid in]

London, Turret Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Card Covers. First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]pp, with proof sheet, reproducing title page, illustration, poem, and colophon loosely laid in. Publisher's illustrated string-bound stiff card wrappers, title page printed in brown, poem surprinted on uncredited illustration, double-page musical score on thick paper, green illustrated dust jacket titled in red, repeating design (by Pip Benveniste) on wrappers, One corner of proof sheet lightly creased, with paperclip imprint on top edge. The eight-page publication, including wrapper and dust jacket, is As New. There were only seven titles in this series, each in a limited edition of 100, the final one published in 1970. "Nothing is lost," in its entirety, reads: "Nothing is lost, sweet self, / Nothing is ever lost. / The unspoken word / Is not exhausted but can be heard. / Music that stains / The silence remains / O echo is everywhere, the unbeckonable bird! N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. As New/As New.

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[DURRELL, Lawrence, writing as:] Charles Norden

Panic Spring

New York, Covici-Friede, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in red and stamped with green leaf device, top edge stained green; illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. About Fine (top edge mildly faded, spine very lightly toned), tightly bound and virtually pristine (lightly read, if at all). About Fine jacket (archivally mended short closed tears to back spine and flap folds), crisp and bright. Potter & Whiting 14. Originally published the same year, by Faber & Faber in London; the publisher suggested the pseudonym, because Durrell's conventionally autobiographical first novel, Pied Piper of Lovers, had been a failure. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine-/Fine-.

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DUVOISIN, Roger (1900-1980)

[Children's Literature] a Little Boy Was Drawing

New York and London, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. First Printing (Scribner's "A" on copyright page) of Duvoisin's scarce first book. Tall, wide 8vo (245 x 203mm): 56 unnumbered pages, with numerous illustrations (many full-page, in color). Publisher's blue, red, pink, and white patterned cloth; red paper title label printed in black to front cover, blue and black illustrated end papers. Faint stain to title label, else a superb copy, tightly bound and clean throughout. Duvoisin was a Swiss-born American author and illustrator, best known for his children's picture books. Earlier in his career, he moved to New York for a job in textile design. When the company folded, he published this book, written and illustrated for his son. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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EDEL, Leon, (1907-1997); LAURENCE, Dan H.

A Bibliography of Henry James [Jacob Blanck's Copy, Presented by the Authors]

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing, one of only 1,000 copies. Rare Presentation Copy, inscribed by Laurence on front fly-leaf and signed by both Edel and Laurence to the great bibliographer Jacob Blanck, with typed postcard signed from Edel to Blanck laid in and fascinating marginal corrections and comments, presumably in Blanck's hand. 8vo: 411,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait and 10 photographs and facsimiles. Publisher's deep pink cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, top edge stained matching pink, unclipped typographic dust jacket printed in maroon and black. About Fine (topstain a bit faded); Near Fine jacket with bright front and back panels, tide mark to lower third of spine panel, few nicks and tiny chips to tips and corners, short closed tear to front panel's top edge). An important copy of this limited edition, essential to any James collector, uniquely inscribed. Besterman II 3242.
¶ The inscription, in Laurence's hand, reads: "For Jacob Blanck, to whom we / acknowledge an enormous debt of / thanks for the innumerable times / he came to the rescue, with both / advice and information, often at / the expense of his own bibliographical / projects. With deep gratitude and / warmest regards. / Dan H. Laurence [in his hand] / Leon Edel [in his hand] / Nov. 29, 1957 [in Laurence's hand]. The typed postcard from Laurence, dated "Dec. 3, 1957," is addressed to "Jake" [Blanck], wherein Laurence notes that copies of the book "arrived on Friday," and that he had inscribed and signed a copy and sent it to Edel for his signature and forwarding to Blanck. Laurence also explains that their gift is motivated by Blank's "generous and ungrudging assistance whenever called upon these many years," says they are "handing out only eight jointly signed copies since the cost is so high," signs the card "Dan" in blue ink, and adds a postscript stating: "Don't let the 'gift' keep you from being scrupulously honest in your criticism—we're planning a 2nd ed. already." N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. Fine-/Near Fine.

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Keywords: James, Henry, 1843-1916—Bibliography. James, Henry, 1843-1916.

[JOHNSTON, Paul, edits and designs]; Genevieve Taggard, Robert Frost, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, HD, Elinor Wylie, Theodore Dreiser, William Rose Benet, Conrad Aiken, Witter Bynner

The Poetry Quartos, Twelve Brochures Each Containing a New Poem by an American Poet Comprising: Monologue for Mothers, the Lovely Shall Be Choosers, Rigamarole, Rigamarole, the Prodigal Son, Adirondack Cycle, Body and Stone, Red Roses for Bronze, Birthday Sonnet, the Aspirant, Sagacity, Prelude, Roots

New York, Random House, 1929. Limited Edition. Pictorial Wrappers. One of 475 sets of twelve royal octavo chapbooks, designed, illustrated, and printed by Paul Johnston, each being the first appearance of a poem by a contemporary American. (253 x 158mm) [4]pp. Original variously colored handmade string-bound wrappers, front covers with contrasting color vignettes and black lettering, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed; all collected in original yellow stiff paper chemise lettered in black and inserted into publisher's black card slipcase decorated with yellow figures. Virtually pristine, with only minor, nearly imperceptible restoration to chemise and slipcase. Clymer & Green, p. 50. Crane A12. Comprising poems by Genevieve Taggard ("Monologue for Mothers"), Robert Frost ("The Lovely Shall be Choosers"), Vachel Lindsay ("Rigamarole, Rigamarole"), Edwin Arlington Robinson ("The Prodigal Son"), Louis Untermeyer ("Adirondack Cycle"), Alfred Kreymborg ("Body and Stone"), H. D. ("Red Roses for Bronze"), Elinor Wylie ("Birthday Sonnet"), Theodore Dreiser ("The Aspirant"), William Rose Benét ("Sagacity"), Conrad Aiken ("Prelude"), and Witter Bynner ("Roots"). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.) The Poetry Quartos, 12 brochures in folder: Paul Johnston. Fine .

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EDWARDS, H. Sutherland (1828-1906)

The Missing Man

London, Remington & Co, 1885. First Edition. Wrappers. First Impression of this rare shilling crime novelette. Foolscap 8vo (160 x 112mm): [2],164pp, with historiated initials and head- and tail-pieces. Publisher's pictorial paper wrappers printed in red and black, priced one shilling. Bookseller's embossed stamp to rear wrapper. A collectible copy of this scarce survival (base of spine neatly repaired, covers lightly spotted), securely bound and clean throughout. Hubin, p. 130. Not in Barzun & Taylor. British Journalist Henry Sutherland Edwards was correspondent for The Times (London), reporting from the coronation of Alexander II of Russia; the January Uprising in Poland, in 1863-1864, and German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+ .

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EGGLESTON, William (b. 1939)

[Photobook] [Exhibition Catalog] Election Eve

Washington, D. C. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1977. Limited Edition. Stiff Wrappers. From an edition of 2,000, with photographs by William Eggleston, preface by Lloyd Fonvielle, and essay by Jane Livingston. Also includes an exhibition checklist, full-page map of Sumter County, Ga. showing locations where photographs were taken, and brief biography and bibliography. Oblong 8vo (202 x 280mm): [16]pp, including three tipped-in color plates. Stapled stiff French blue wrappers printed in black. In 1976, Rolling Stone magazine commissioned Eggleston to photograph Plains, Georgia, birthplace and hometown of presidential candidate Jimmy Carter. The project became the first of Eggleston's books of photographs and the subject of this exhibition of 100 type-c photographs at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C. from December 10, 1977 to January 22, 1978. The photobook, published by Caldecot Chubb, in New York, in an edition of just five numbered copies and two lettered artist's proofs (reissued, in a trade edition, by Steidl, in 2017) was not only Eggleston's first, but his most elaborate, containing one-hundred original prints in two leather-bound volumes housed in a linen box. Eggleston made these photographs in and around Plains—and along the route of his journey there from Memphis—on the eve of the 1976 Presidential election. When he crossed the border into Sumter County, he circled Plains warily, photographing the outlying countryside and the nearby fields and villages. "His reluctance to zero in too hastily on Carter's hometown was an indication, partly, of his purpose in making this series of images. He wanted to record Plains in the true context of its life as a Southern town: as a tiny way station on roads leading to other, more vital places, as the hub of a very small agricultural wheel. And this he has done . These photographs show us a place strikingly different from the one whose image was so carefully edited and construed for us by the media." (from the Preface). N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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Keywords: Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions. Color photography -- Exhibitions. THE PAPER CHASE

EISNER, Lotte H. (1896-1983)

[Cinema] F.W. Murnau [Inscribed to Jean Kress]

Paris, Editions Le Terrain Vague, 1964. Card Covers. First Edition of this seminal study of the German film director, whose adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, "Nosfératu," is considered a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema. In French, with additional texts by Robert Plumpe and Robert Herlth. Demy 8vo (220 x 163mm): 253,[1]pp, with appendices, index of films, and filmography, and with numerous photographic illustrations on 28 double-sided inserted plates. Publisher's pictorial stiff paper wrappers with French flaps (featuring the original poster from the legendary "Nosfératu"), edges untrimmed. Inscribed by Eisner on front fly-leaf to actor, director, and critic Jean Kress. A superb copy, with an important association, tightly bound and clean throughout, virtually pristine (mostly unopened). Awarded the prix littéraire du Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma. Murnau emigrated to Hollywood in 1926, where he joined Fox Studio and made three films, including, in 1927, Sunrise, regarded by critics as among the best films ever made. He died soon afterward, in 1931, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident along the Pacific Coast Highway near Rincon Beach, southeast of Santa Barbara. Eisner worked as a film critic, initially in Berlin, then in Paris, where, in 1936, she founded the Cinémathèque Française with Henri Langlois. She was a friend of and mentor of leading young German film makers, including Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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ELIOT, T. S. (Thomas Stearns, 1888-1965)

Dante [the Poets on the Poets]

London, Faber and Faber, 1929. First Impression. Pictorial Boards. First Edition, ordinary copy (there was also a signed, limited edition of 125 copies), in the first-issue dust jacket (without excerpts from reviews on front flap and back panel). Crown 8vo: [8],11-69,[1]pp. Publisher's grey decorated paper-covered boards, spine and upper cover printed in black, top edge stained blue (some copies were stained green); matching dust jacket with marvelous design by Rex Whistler, priced 3s / 6d. A superlative example, virtually pristine inside and out (jacket's spine panel almost imperceptibly toned), one of only 2,000 copies. Gallup A13a. Second in the short-lived Faber series The Poets on the Poets, preceded by Vita Sackville-West's appreciation of Andrew Marvel and followed by Lascelles Abercrombie's Wordsworth. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine/Fine.

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ELIOT, T[homas]. S[tearns], 1888-1965

Four Quartets [Comprising East Coker, Burnt Norton, the Dry Salvages, Little Gidding]

New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. First Printing ("First American Edition" on copyright page) of the first single-volume edition of Eliot's wartime masterpiece (preceding the British edition by more than a year), in the first-issue dust jacket (with nine titles to back panel). Tall, slim 8vo: [8],39,[1]pp. Original black cloth, spine titled in gold; jacket printed in gray and black, priced $2. About Fine (lettering to spine occasionally rubbed); slight toning to jacket's spine panel, crown of spine nicked, else exceptionally well-preserved. Gallup A43. A total of 4,165 copies were printed, but 3,777 destroyed because the margins were incorrectly set, because of unskilled wartime labor. The remaining 788 copies, of which this is one, were issued as review copies and to preserve copyright. Collects four interrelated poems published separately over the previous three years. East Coker is the village in Somerset from which Eliot's ancestors departed for the New World, in 1669; Burnt Norton refers to the Gloucestershire manor house erected on the foundation of a house that burned to the ground in 17th century; The Dry Salvages is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, and so harks to the poet's New England roots, and Little Gidding is the manor in Huntingdonshire where Nicholas Ferrar founded an Anglican religious community in the mid-17th century. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). -/Fine.

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ELLIS, Havelock (1859-1939)

[Golden Cockerel Press] Sonnets, with Folk Songs from the Spanish [Unopened]

Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire, Great Britain, Golden Cockerel Press, 1925. Quarter cloth. Limited Edition, no. 17 of 500 numbered copies printed on Kelmscott handmade paper. Demy 8vo (221 x 147mm): xiv,[2],81,[3]pp, with wood-engraved vignette to title page and press device to colophon in gilt. Original oatmeal-colored quarter linen over pale grey paper-covered boards, paper spine label printed in black, edges uncut. Fine and opened. Chanticleer 24. Poems written when Ellis was a teacher in the Australian Bush and, later, a medical student. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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LE FANU, J. Sheridan (1814-1873)

[Gothic Horror] Borrhomeo the Astrologer. A Monkish Tale

Edinburgh, The Tragara Press, 1985. Limited Edition. Wrappers. First Edition in book form, No. 18 of 30 copies printed on Amalfi paper (total limitation: 150 copies, of which 130 for sale). With an introduction by W. J. Mc Cormack. Royal 8vo (256 x 167mm): pp. 35,[1]pp, with three engraved vignettes. Publisher's cream card covers, green and red marbled dust jacket, paper title label printed in black to front panel. An excellent example, virtually pristine. Sullivan, pp. 257-62 (Calling Le Fanu "the premier ghost story writer of the nineteenth century"). Clute & Grant, p. 571. First published anonymously in The Dublin University Magazine, in January, 1862, and never reprinted in any form until this Tragara Press edition. Mc Cormack set out the case for Le Fanu's authorship in 1980, in Sheridan Le Fanu and Victorian Ireland, pp. 278-79. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories." Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas, the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla, and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine .

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FAULKNER, William (1897-1962)

Doctor Martino and Other Stories

London, Chatto & Windus, 1934. First British Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of Faulkner's second collection of stories (published the same year in New York, by Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, in both limited and trade issues, the latter of which we also have on offer). One of 1,500 copies (the smallest limitation of any first British printing of Faulkner's books, according to Petersen). Crown 8vo (189 x 118mm): [8]371,[5]pp. Publisher's scarlet cloth, spine lettered in gold, top edge stained scarlet; beige typographic dust jacket printed in scarlet and priced 7s/6d. Neat ownership inscription, mild spotting to edges and end papers, light fading to spine (gilt titles still bright), jacket's spine panel slightly tanned, but an excellent example. Petersen A16.2. Man Working 439. The title story, about the power of platonic love, first appeared in the November 1931 issue of Harper's. In fact, only two of the fourteen stories, "Black Magic" and "The Leg," are new. "Smoke" marks Faulkner's first foray into the detective story, in the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Conan Doyle, and a number of the stories, including "Beyond" and "The Leg" (about a haunting by an amputated limb) have supernatural elements. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Near Fine+/Fine-.

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FAULKNER, William (1897-1962); Lynd Ward (illustrates)

A Green Bough [Signed]

New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No. 205 of 360 copies signed by Faulkner in blue ink at the colophon. Demy 8vo (217 x 159mm): 67,[3]pp, with four wood engravings by Lynd Ward (including inlaid frontispiece and vignette in colophon) printed in green on laid paper, watermarked "Linweave Milano." Publisher's original tan V-cloth, front cover lettered in black with two inlaid pictorial labels printed from woodcuts, spine lettered in black, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed. Issued without a dust jacket. Very minor darkening to cloth, else an excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Petersen A15.1a (the "black lettering on the cover is almost always chipped away"; our is fully intact). Dance 053. Man Working 755. Second and final collection of Faulkner's poetry published during his lifetime, comprising forty-four numbered poems, of which fourteen had appeared previously, wholly or in part. "William Faulkner's new volume of poems is immediately notable for the number of experiments in imitation which it contains. In the first of his forty-four poems, Mr. Faulkner treats of a drawing room full of 'All the Dead Pilots' in a strict 'Prufrock' and 'Portrait of a Lady' idiom. In the third poem he yields to the thrill of hallucination, and he gets it with Hart Crane's means—a dazzling eruption of metaphors on a blank verse norm. In poem IV he writes a complete E. E. Cummings poem and throughout the volume he works in a few patented tricks (even Mr. Cummings's favorite prefix Un-). Almost any student given the anonymous poems XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV would spot them as the work of A. E. Housman." (William Gorman, "William Faulkner, Poet," New York Sun, April 21, 1933, p. 25) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.). Fine- .

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