1952 · New York & Boston
by Aiken, Conrad
New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, 1952. Cloth. A rather used and edgeworn copy, in slightly worn supplied dust jacket. First edition of Aiken's autobiography, a work many regard as his most significant prosework. An inscribed presentation copy from Aiken to the daughter and son-in-law of his friends, Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon: "For Percy and Nancy from Conrad with all the polymorphouses [sic] 1957." (Inventory #: WRCLIT69083)