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Edna St. Vincent Millay Signed Book

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American lyrical poet and playwright (1892-1950) and the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Signed book: Fatal Interview. Seventeenth printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1931. Hardcover, 5.75 x 8.5, 52 pages. Signed in blue ink on the first free end page. In very good condition, with scattered blocks of toning to inside pages from previously stored clippings, a loose front hinge loose, toning and sunning to the covers and spine, small paper loss to the head and tail of the spine, and partial loss and rubbing to the spine label. Includes several unsigned books by St. Vincent Millay: Fatal Interview (three first editions, a fifth printing, and a sixteenth printing), Wine From these Grapes (first edition), The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems (tenth printing), The King's Henchman (first edition), Conversation at Midnight (first edition), and Huntsman, What Quarry? (first edition). Unsigned books are in good to very good condition, with some losses to spines, toning to textblocks, and various bookplates and news clippings affixed inside.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autograph and Artifacts
  • Dates: #618 - Ended October 13, 2021





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