[Rarebooks] FS: James Wright's First Book INSCRIBED to his First Wife, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:   Was $7500,  Now  $5000

WRIGHT, James. THE GREEN WALL. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. 
First Edition. Poet's very scarce first book, part of the Yale Series of 
Younger Poets, with an introduction by W. H. Auden. This copy belonged 
to Wright's wife, Liberty, with her SIGNATURE at the top of the front 
free endpaper and below that a SIGNED INSCRIPTION by the poet quoting 
two lines from a poem in the book, "Eleutheria," and adding a 
bittersweet, revealing commentary: "for Lib,/and the ground's 
deliberate/riches, the fallen pears, the/bewildered apples blown 
to/mounds of shade, and mainly/for the poison ivy, which I kept/out of 
the poem, not because/it didn't scan or rhyme, but/because it was the 
sweet/and secret root from which/the poem came./Love and grief,/Jim." 
Liberty Kardules was Wright's high school sweetheart and the mother of 
his sons Franz and Marshall. Wright left Liberty two years after 
publication of this book and divorced her in 1962. Franz Wright is now 
an accomplished poet. He and his father are the only parent/child pair 
to have won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Near Fine in a Good 
dustwrapper, worn but complete but for small chips at the spine tips and 
corners and a long closed split between the front panel and inside flap. 
Exceptional Association Copy. (#014133)        $5,000.00

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