YOUNG ADVENTURE. A BOOK OF POEMS
by BENET, Stephen Vincent
First Edition
Price: $250.00
- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 009588
- Format: Cloth-backed boards
- Book condition: Paper is browned but not brittle. Minor wear to spine tips and slightly more to corners. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Overall
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- Place: New Haven
- Date published: 1918
Book Description
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1918. First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Paper is browned but not brittle. Minor wear to spine tips and slightly more to corners. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Overall a Very Good copy, quite scarce when inscribed. Cloth and decorated boards with paper spine label. Benet's second book, published in September 1918. This copy bears an April 1918 pre-publication INSCRIPTION by the author that takes up nearly the entire front endpaper: "To Tim Walker/from (supposedly)/Stephen Vincent Benet/this complete/and definite/'Portrait of a Baby.'" Likely an allusion to the fact that this book was published shortly after Benet's twentieth birthday while he was still a student at Yale. The longest, and first, poem of the book won an award at Yale judged by Robert Frost and two others.
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