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This has the first issue points of the text printed on laid and watermarked paper and blank leaves before the half-title. Octavo. Original black cloth, lettering to spine and front cover in gilt, edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a chemise and blue morocco-backed slipcase. Bookplates of Donald S. Friede and Henry Lewis Batterman Jr. to front pastedown. Some minor browning to front endpapers; an exceptionally fine and sharp copy. Short dust jacket, as issued, similarly fine. Some wear to slipcase. £7,500 [153850] 72 MILLAY, Edna St Vincent. Second April. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1921 First edition, first printing, in the very scarce dust jacket (printing rave reviews for Millay’s debut “Renascence”). This early collection includes her short but significant poem “Spring” which anticipated, in its stark satire of vernal regrowth, the famous opening lines of Eliot’s The Waste Land, published the following year: “Life in itself / is nothing, / an empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. / It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, / April / comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.” Octavo. Original black cloth, titles gilt to spine and front. With dust jacket. An exceptional copy, cloth bright, sound and clean within, the
jacket somewhat sunned to spine panel and with very minor nicks to ends and corners, but still near-fine. £1,500 [153918]
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