[Rarebooks] FS: Stephen Vincent Benet's second book with fine pre-publication inscription

[Charles Agvent]

BENET,  Stephen  Vincent. YOUNG ADVENTURE. A BOOK  OF  POEMS.  New
Haven:  Yale University Press 1918. First Edition. Cloth and decorated
boards  with  paper  spine label. Benet's second  book,  published  in
September  1918.  This  copy  bears   an  April  1918  pre-publication
INSCRIPTION  by Benet that takes up nearly the entire front  endpaper:
"To    Tim   Walker/from   (supposedly)/Stephen   Vincent   Benet/this
complete/and  definite/'Portrait  of a Baby.'" Likely an  allusion  to
the  fact that this book was published shortly after Benet's twentieth
birthday while he was still a student at Yale. The longest, and first,
poem  of the book won an award at Yale judged by Robert Frost and  two
others.  Paper  is browned but not brittle. Minor wear to  spine  tips
and  slightly more to corners. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. Overall
a Very Good copy, quite scarce when signed.                    $350.00

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