[Rarebooks] FS: H. D. Bid Me To Live INSCRIBED to Mark Van Doren

[Charles Agvent]

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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