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Moore, Marianne LIKE A BULWARK / BY MARIANNE MOORE. (Presented to Wallace Stevens' Daughter with a 2 Page Autographed Letter, Signed)
New York Viking Press 1956 Boards & Cloth Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo; 32 pages; Decorated pink, green and gray paper-covered boards. Jacket is unclipped with no tears or wear at all. Spine of jacket lightly browned. Reference : Abbott, C. S. Marianne Moore, A14a.1. Provenance: Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens' daughter. With a two page A. L. S loosely inserted : 260 Cumberland Street, Brooklyn 5, New York (printed) . "December 15, 1956 Dear Holly, I am so glad that you and Peter have been able to transplant yourselves to the country successfully, - on Peachtree Drive. Autumn is my favorite season, and I never tire of the smell of burning leaves. I was in California in October - speaking at the University of Los Angeles and then at Scripps College, thriving hedges, flowers oleanders, roses, lemon verbena in that part of the world! Perhaps you have been there. Thank you for the thoughts and the greeting; and for the World of Woodcut - (I am very dull, not greeting anybody. ) It is all the more a pleasure to be thinking of you and Peter. Am glad you liked my Tior(? ) and am encouraged that you see something in Like A Bulwark. Could you make some corrections for me? : p. 19 line 8 for Solidad, - Soledad 20 for " Soledad 21 " " 27 Bonfflers' Bonffler's - (I think) [and she askes Holly to make several other corrections to the typos] ...I don't suppose you will ever do it but let me know if you would like to take anything I write : ; (what I write that gets printed, hereafter). I would like to give it to you. You are working I suppose? I do hope you and Peter will have a good winter -, and, that your mother is outgrowing her handicap. Affectionately, Marianne m. " (In the mailing envelope).
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1500.00 USD
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Moore, Marianne O TO BE A DRAGON / MARIANNE MOORE. (Marianne Moore's Own Copy Presented and Signed to Wallace Stevens' Daughter)
New York Viking Press 1959 Boards & Cloth Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
8vo; 37 pages; Half gray cloth, blue paper boards. Jacket is unclipped with no tears or wear at all. Spine of jacket lightly browned. With Moore's 2" sketch of a dragon and the notation "Dragon attacked by gnat" on the white area of the front panel. Inscription on the flyleaf as follows: "Mine, originally, Holly, since / it had an unintentional stripe / on the jacket that was there to / stay- (now a dragon) yours / from a complimented author, / pleased that you want it / Marianne / I e m Sept. 17, 1959 . / Copyright date annotated by Moore: "September 17th" . Reference : Abbott, C. S. Marianne Moore, A17.1. Provenance: Holly Stevens, Wallace Stevens' daughter.
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500.00 USD
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