[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed First Edition of Stephen Vincent Benet's second book

[Charles Agvent]

BENET, Stephen Vincent YOUNG ADVENTURE. A BOOK OF POEMS
Yale University Press New Haven 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. O verall a Very Good copy, 
quite scarce when signed.   $350.00
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