[Rarebooks] FS: Two Early and Scarce Elizabeth Bishop items

[Charles Agvent]

BISHOP, Elizabeth (Junior Editor) [McCARTHY, Mary] [RUKEYSER, Muriel]. 
THE 1933 VASSARION. Poughkeepsie, NY: Senior Class/Vassar College, 
[1933]. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in blue cloth 
with a decorative black on silver label on the front cover. Elizabeth 
Bishop's junior and Mary McCarthy's senior yearbook at Vassar. In 
addition to the senior picture of McCarthy, she is also listed and 
possibly pictured in the cast of a play (with Bishop!) and is listed as 
a star reporter on the Vassar Miscellany News. While Bishop is not 
listed on the editorial staff, she is in the picture of the staff as 
well as on the staff of the Vassarion and the college choir. Muriel 
Rukeyser is listed on the editorial board of the Vassar Review, though 
she was absent for the picture. Two small photographs of a student, 
along with a class of 1933 blue sash laid in. A Near Fine, fresh copy 
internally with a sunned spine and some marking and rubbing to the 
covers. (#017269)        $600.00

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BISHOP, Elizabeth (Editor-in-Chief). THE 1934 VASSARION. Poughkeepsie: 
Senior Class/Vassar College, [1934]. First Edition. Quarto (7-3/4" x 
10-3/4") bound in velvet-covered boards. Elizabeth Bishop's senior 
yearbook at Vassar, of which she was the editor-in-chief. This can 
certainly be considered, as anyone who has ever been in charge of a 
yearbook may tell you, Bishop's first book, predating NORTH & SOUTH by 
12 years. Profusely illustrated, with two photographs of Bishop, her 
senior photograph and a group shot of the yearbook staff. Underclassman 
Muriel Rukeyser has a poem here also. A scarce Bishop item, and the best 
copy of the several we have handled over the course of 25 years. A few, 
inevitable marks to the velvet. A Fine, fresh copy with no writing 
within other than the 1934 name of a classmate on the front free 
endpaper. (#017233)     $2,000.00


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