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Lot 70
Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021
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[Literature] Berryman, John Five Young American Poets
Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, (1940). First edition (one of only 800 copies printed). 8vo. 221 pp. Inscribed: "To Robert Penn Warren/with sincere regards/John Berryman/Cambridge/17 Dec 1940" on front paste-down. Original blue cloth, stamped in gilt; in original unclipped dust-jacket, spine darkened, worn slightly at extremities. In a three-quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered boards fall-down-back box.