[Rarebooks] FS: H.D. Inscribed to Mark Van Doren

[Charles Agvent]

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D.,  H.  [Hilda  DOOLITTLE]. BID ME TO LIVE. (A MADRIGAL).  New  York:
Grove  Press 1960. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet  on
the  front  endpaper to Mark Van Doren in a shaky hand:  "H  D/to/Mark
Van  Doren/to/bless & thank you/for May 25 - 1960." On that day, H. D.
was  given the Award of Merit Medal for Poetry by the American Academy
of  Arts  and Letters, the first woman to receive the award. Mark  Van
Doren  was  then president of the Academy making this  an  outstanding
association  copy.  Briefly  engaged to Ezra Pound, H.  D.  eventually
married  fellow  Imagist poet Richard Aldington. This novel, her  last
major  work,  is  based on the life of her husband.  H. D. suffered a
stroke  a little more than a year later and died soon afterward.  Near
Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.                               $500.00

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