Estrangements

New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966. First Edition. Comb bound galley proofs with printed orange wrappers. Creasing, short tears and staining to wrappers, internally fine. Rare. Freeman's first poetry collection, published while he was teaching English at Boston University and running the rare book firm Ximenes. Freeman would become one of the most distinguished rare book dealers and bibliographers of the twentieth century, specializing in English literature before 1850 and discovering numerous lost or undervalued manuscripts including Turgenev's Fathers and Sons and works annotated by Defoe and Pope.