signed first edition Hardcover
1942 · New York
by PATCHEN, Kenneth
New York: Harriss & Givens, 1942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Small owner label, several clippings affixed to rear blank leaves, and some offsetting to the first blank leaf, else a near fine copy in a slightly spine-tanned, very good plus dustwrapper. One of 775 copies. Very nicely Inscribed by the author: "for my friend Arthur at the beginning of the year 1943. Kenneth January first." Laid in is a prospectus for the book; a piece of scrap paper where Patchen has listed the titles of all his poems that appear in *New Directions in Prose and Poetry* with the publication date; and two copies - one a ribbon copy, the other a carbon, of the review of this book by Kenneth Slade Alling, that appeared in *Voices, A Quarterly of Poetry*.
(Inventory #: 76902)