[Rarebooks] FS: 1906 Wallace Stevens

[Charles Agvent]

[STEVENS, Wallace] STEBBINS, C. (editor). VERSES FROM THE HARVARD 
ADVOCATE. Third Series 1886-1906. Cambridge: The Harvard Advocate, 1906. 
First Edition. Original red cloth with gilt decoration on the front 
cover; xiii, [1], 214, [2] pages. Includes poems by Witter Bynner, Bliss 
Carman, Arthur Davison Ficke, and others, most notably 5 poems by 
Wallace Stevens (class of '01), an early appearance in print of the poet 
whose first appearance in a book was in 1899. His first book, HARMONIUM, 
was not published until 1923. The 5 poems by Stevens are: "Song" ('She 
loves me or loves me not'); "Song" ('Ah yes! beyond these barren 
walls'); "Street Songs" ("The Pigeons," "Statuary," "The Minstrel"); 
"Outside the Hospital"; and "Sonnet" ('There shines the morning star!'). 
Edelstein B4. "Wigglesworth Cottage" in ink on the front endpaper. Spine 
gilt faded, upper corners bumped. Near Fine. (#020232)     $175

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