WAKE ISLAND
by RUKEYSER, Muriel
First Edition
Price: $1,000.00
- Bookseller: Charles Agvent, ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 013573
- Format: Pictorial boards
- Book condition: Minor wear to spine tips and darkening to the top of the front cover affecting the top of the title lettering. Very Good or bett
- Edition: First Edition
- Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc.
- Place: Garden City
- Date published: 1942
Book Description
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Minor wear to spine tips and darkening to the top of the front cover affecting the top of the title lettering. Very Good or better and quite scarce. Pictorial boards depicting ships and planes around the island of the title. The first, suppressed binding and very scarce. It seems Rukeyser was dissatisfied with the illustration on the cover, and most copies were destroyed. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the title page to noted collector Eugene L. Delafield "a long time later" in 1952. Delafield has noted in pencil on the front pastedown a publication date of 21 August 1942 and on the copyright page: "circa 200 in this binding." An early if not the first book of American poetry published whose primary subject matter is World War II. Wake Island, attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor, was the site of the first Japanese defeat of the war, though Japan would take the island later that month.
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