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Lot 152
Sale 1241 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana
Nov 10, 2023
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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Lot Description
BISHOP, Elizabeth (1911-1979). North & South. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946.
8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in silver (spine and upper and fore-edges sunned, a touch of wear to extremities); publisher's dust jacket (slight chipping, some light toning); folding case.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the year "1946" printed on the title-page. One of 1,000 unnumbered copies, North & South was Bishop's first book, and the winner of the Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Award for poetry.
Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio