[Rarebooks] fs: Marianne Moore, 2 autographed collections

[Back Creek Books]

Greetings Booklovers,

We are pleased to offer:
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(No. 10041)   Moore, Marianne (1887-1972). O TO BE A DRAGON (SIGNED).
New York: Viking Press, 1959. First printing, Hardcover, Octavo, 37 pages. 
Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      The first book appearance of these 15 fifteen poems whose subjects 
range from dragons and chameleons to Saint Nicholas, the Jamestown settlers, 
and the Brooklyn Dodgers. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Moore on front free 
endpaper in year of publication. Bound in gray cloth over boards with dark 
blue patterned paper sides, gray endpapers, spine titled in silver. Tiny 
extremity rubs, a few spots of foxing to top edge of textblock. Original 
jacket price is intact. Jacket shows a few minor rubs and a touch of 
browning along spine.
 $125.00 - Photo(s) and secure ordering:
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(No. 10040)   Moore, Marianne (1887-1972). COLLECTED POEMS (SIGNED).
New York: Macmillan Company, 1957. Later printing, Full cloth, Octavo, 180 
pages. Near Fine in a Fine Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      Moore's Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning collection of 
poetry, INSCRIBED and SIGNED by her in 1959 on front free endpaper. This 
collection includes 9 poems which had not previously appeared in book form. 
Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine. Minor rubs to 
extremities, faint browning to endpapers along inner margins. Jacket has 
just a hint of fading to spine but no significant wear.
 $75.00 - Photo(s) and secure ordering:
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