[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED by 32 Poets including W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, & Dylan Thomas (with a drawing)

[Charles Agvent]

(AUDEN, W.H.; STEVENS, Wallace; THOMAS, Dylan; JEFFERS, Robinson; 
JARRELL, Randall; et. al.) WILLIAMS, Oscar (editor). NEW POEMS 1942. Mt. 
Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, (1942). First Edition. Cloth-backed 
marbled boards with cloth tips. One of only 32 contributors copies 
(there were also 26 lettered copies bringing the total to 58) SIGNED by 
32 of the 33 contributors, as issued: Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. 
H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh 
Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, 
Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, 
Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNeice, 
Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederick Prokosch, Muriel Rukeyser, 
Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore 
Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn 
Warren, and Oscar Williams. Dylan Thomas has added a small crude 
drawing, apparently a self-portrait. W. R. Rogers did not sign, possibly 
due to the editorial error in the 1940 edition that did not credit him 
for his poem. This copy belonged to Walter Emerson, printer at the Peter 
Pauper Press. A spectacular collection of signatures of most of the 
important modern poets of the era. Small stain to front gutter with some 
splitting to the paper. The spine is stained and darkened. Still Very 
Good or better, lacking the original slipcase, as usual, but with a Fine 
custom-made green morocco-backed clamshell box. (#015295)        $8,500.00

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