ARAGON; Poet of the French Resistance
signed first edition
1945 · NY
by COWLEY, Malcolm and JOSEPHSON, Hannah, ed
NY: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1945. First Edition. 8vo, pp.167. Gray cloth, a very good copy. This copy belonged to poet William Jay Smith, with his signature on the end paper. Additionally, Smith has signed the page that reprints his poem, "C" also Cowley has inscribed the boom on the title page: "Malcolm Cowley | to a distinguished | collaborator" . Glue remnants on the end paper where a bookplate once resided. Contains work by Cowley, Rolfe Humphries, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, William Jay Smth and others. (Inventory #: 58562)