first edition Hard Cover
1923 · New York
by Stevens, Wallace
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. First edition, third binding state, one of 1500 copies. Minor loss from spine label, edges a bit faded, 2 inch closed tear on title page, 1/4 inch chip from top edge of contents page, 2 inch closed tear along top edge of page 13/14. 1923 Hard Cover. 140 pp. Blue cloth, paper spine label. Wallace Stevens's Collected Poems won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1955. This, his first collection of verse, includes 85 poems of varying lengths. It was not immediately popular, and the bulk of the original edition was remaindered, but literary studies published after his death (truncated)