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Lot 409
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
Lots Open
Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$390
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Lot Description
[LITERATURE - POETRY]. A group of 10 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:
1) BISHOP, Elizabeth (1911-1979). The Complete Poems 1927-1979. New York: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 1979.
2) HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013). Opened Ground Poems 1966-96. London: Faber & Faber, 1998. LIMITED EDITION, number 43 of 300 copies. SIGNED BY HEANEY.
3) KINNELL, Galway (1927-2014). The Book of Nightmares. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971.
4) KOCH, Kenneth (1925-2002). Ko, or A Season on Earth. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. INSCRIBED BY KOCH.
5) LORDE, Audre (1934-1992). The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance. New York and London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1993.
6) MOORE, Marianne (1887-1972). What Are Years. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1941.
7) NIEDECKER, Lorine (1903-1970). The Collected Poems 1936-1966. Penland, NC: The Jargon Society, 1968.
8) PATCHEN, Kenneth (1911-1972). The Collected Poems. New York: New Directions, 1968.
9) WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001). A Flock of Guinea Hens Seen from a Car. New York: Albondocani Press, 1970. LIMITED EDITION, one of 300 copies.
10) WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001). A Pageant of Birds. New York: Albondocani Press, 1974. LIMITED EDITION, number 157 of 300 copies. SIGNED BY WELTY.
Together, 10 works in 10 volumes. All 8vo and all in original bindings and wraps. condition generally very fine.
This lot is located in Chicago.