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

[Charles Agvent]

BERRYMAN, John 77 DREAM SONGS
Farrar, Straus & Giroux New York (1964) First Edition. Winner of the 
Pulitzer Prize. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To Martha/with love/--Ihope 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. 
apartmentabove 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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