LOUISE BOGAN; a portrait
signed first edition
1985 · NY
by (BOGAN) FRANK, Elizabeth
NY: Alfred Knopf, 1985. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 460. A very good copy in clean, price clipped, dj. Inscribed by the author to poet William Jay Smith: "To Bill Smith | 'Ignorant, I took up my burden in the wilderness. | Wise with great wisdom. I shall lay it down upon blankets.' | with gratitude and | warmest affection - | Elizabeth Frank | February 15, 1985 | N. Y. C." Bogan, a Bollingen Prize winner, was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1945-46, and poetry critic for The New Yorker from 1931 to 1969. (Inventory #: 58233)