Lot 583
Lowell, Robert
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Lord Weary's castle. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1946]. First edition, 8vo, presentation copy for David Posner, inscribed and signed by the author on endpaper, original black cloth, dustwrapper, dustwrapper lightly rubbed and soiled, with a couple of small tears; [Idem] Life studies. New York: Farrar Strauss, [1959]. First American edition; [Idem] New the ocean. New York: Farrar Strauss, 1967. First edition; [Idem] Phaedra. London: Faber, 1962. First English edition; and 10 others, all in dustwrappers (15)
Footnote
Note: An attractive copy of Lord Wary's Castle, Lowell's first regularly published book, which was award ed the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The work is inscribed to the American poet David Posner (1921-1985) "For David Posner (The finished product, alas, rather than its more interesting and embarassing beginnings), Robert Lowell"