[Rarebooks] FS: Edmund Wilson's POET'S FAREWELL! with a Fine INSCRIPTION to John and Marion Amen

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One of many fine items in our new catalog recently posted on our home 
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WILSON, Edmund. POETS, FAREWELL! New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 
1929. First Edition. Wilson's first volume of poetry, here INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To Marion and John 
Amen/This little sheaf of woodland/pipings from a wayward muse,/From 
Edmund Wilson/October 44." The beginning of Wilson's longtime friendship 
with John Amen, who would eventually become his tax lawyer and executor, 
dates to 1919. Wilson married his second wife, Margaret Canby, in 
Washington, DC at the home of Amen, then Assistant Attorney General of 
the United States. That marriage, of course, would end tragically with 
Margaret's death two years later after falling down stairs. Amen was the 
second husband of Marion Cleveland Dell, the daughter of former 
President Grover Cleveland. A scarce book to find signed, let alone with 
such a fine association. Very Good in a slightly darkened, Near Fine 
dustwrapper with minor edgewear. (#016415)        $2,000.00

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