[Rarebooks] FS: WAKE ISLAND in the scarce first suppressed binding

[Charles Agvent]

RUKEYSER, Muriel. WAKE ISLAND. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 
Inc., 1942. First Edition. Pictorial boards depicting ships and planes 
around the island of the title. The first, suppressed binding and very 
scarce. It seems Rukeyser was dissatisfied with the illustration on the 
cover, and most copies were destroyed. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED 
by the poet on the title page to noted collector Eugene L. Delafield "a 
long time later" in 1952. Delafield has noted in pencil on the front 
pastedown a publication date of 21 August 1942 and on the copyright 
page: "circa 200 in this binding." An early if not the first book of 
American poetry published whose primary subject matter is World War II. 
Wake Island, attacked on the same day as Pearl Harbor, was the site of 
the first Japanese defeat of the war, though Japan would take the island 
later that month. Minor wear to spine tips and darkening to the top of 
the front cover affecting the top of the title lettering. Very Good or 
better and quite scarce. (#013573)        $1,000.00

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