[Rarebooks] FS: Robert Lowell's First Book, #11 of only 26 SIGNED: LAND OF UNLIKENESS

[Charles Agvent]

LOWELL, Robert. LAND OF UNLIKENESS. (Cummington, MA): Cummington Press, 
1944. First Edition. Publisher's blue boards stamped in orange, title 
page printed in red and black with woodcut in blue by Gustav Wolf. 
Introduction by Allen Tate. Lowell's first book, limited to a total of 
250 copies printed. This is Copy #11 of only 26 on Dacian paper SIGNED 
by the author on the limitation page. Slight fading to boards, moreso to 
the spine which has a couple of small tears, one neatly repaired. Very 
Good and scarce.

Allen Tate, in his introduction to this collection, tempers his praise 
with a fair assessment of Lowell's current stature and potential, 
heralding a lasting presence in American poetry: "The history of poetry 
shows that good verse does not inevitably make its way; but unless, 
after the war, the small public for poetry shall exclude all except the 
democratic poets who enthusiastically greet the advent of the 
slave-society, Robert Lowell will have to be reckoned with." Two years 
later, Lowell would win the Pulitzer Prize for LORD WEARY'S CASTLE, at 
the age of 30. (#020872) $5,000

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