[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Pulitzer Prize winning 77 DREAM SONGS by John Berryman

[Charles Agvent]

BERRYMAN,  John.  77  DREAM SONGS. New York: Farrar, Straus  &  Giroux
(1964).  First  Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED    "To   Martha/with  love/--I   hope   you   &   Christina/are
happy--/John/as  from  103 - 2nd St., NE/Washington, D.C." Martha  was
the  name of both Berryman's mother & daughter (born in 1962), but  we
do  not know who this Martha & Christina are. Though undated, this  is
an  early  inscription as the Berrymans moved into the D.C.  apartment
above  the  poet's mother's apartment in the Fall of 1963  and  stayed
there  until  Berryman  bought  his first house,  in  Minneapolis,  in
September  1964. The book was published in April 1964 and awarded  the
Pulitzer  in  May 1965. Near Fine in Fine later printing  dustwrapper.
                                                               $2750.00
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