Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet who spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company and came to write philosophical poetry in his later years. In 1955, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his Collected Poems. Among his best known poems are: "Anecdote of the Jar", "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Sunday Morning", "The Snow Man", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird."
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. Second printing (first published in 1947). Signed. Signed by Wallace Stevens on the half title. Read More Item Details for Transport to Summer Add to Wish List
Item #352927
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. INSCRIBED. Signed and inscribed to Murray Walch by the author on the ffep on the half-title. Stevens inscriptions are rare. Stevens' magesterial meditation on the relationship between the imagination and reality, delivered as a lecture at Princeton in 1942, while the world..... Read More Item Details for The Necessary Angel. Essays on Reality and the Imagination Add to Wish List
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Reprinted from the October Number of the Sewanee Review, [1945]. Read More Item Details for Description Without Place Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition, one of 1,000 copies. Dust jacket in second issue jacket with corrected reading "conjunctions" on the inner front flap. Read More Item Details for The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems Add to Wish List
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Octon, France: Verdigris Press, 2003. Limited edition of 50 copies on handmade paper and printed letterpress by Mark Linott. Read More Item Details for Study of Two Pears. Étude de Deux Poires A Poem by Wallace Stevens with a translation into French by Bernard Noel Add to Wish List
Item #324127
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[Cummington, MA]: The Cummington Press, 1947. First edition, No. LII of 52 signed copies. One of 52. Stevens was deeply interested in Harry Duncan's Cummington Press, and wrote his editor at Knopf, Herbert Weinstock concerning this work, "certainly as interesting as any young printer in the country ... I very..... Read More Item Details for Three Academic Pieces Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First edition, First edition, first printing (4800 copies) which includes without correction the essay "On Poetic Truth", which was subsequently found to be written by H.D. Lewis. Read More Item Details for Opus Posthumous. Edited by Samuel French Morse Add to Wish List
Item #31250
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Cambridge: Harvard Advocate, 1906. Includes several poems of Wallace Stevens (class of '01): "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!'). First appearance in book form..... Read More Item Details for Verses from the Harvard Advocate. Third Series 1886-1906 Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A.Knopf, 1931. Second edition, with 14 new poems; fourth state of binding. The second edition of this landmark of twentieth century poetry, with the removal of 3 poems from the 1923 edition, and the addition of 14 others. Printed in an edition of 1,500 copies, of which..... Read More Item Details for Harmonium Add to Wish List
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Cummington, Mass: Cummington Press, 1942. First edition, no. XLIV of 80 numbered copies signed by the author. One of 80, Signed by the Author. Read More Item Details for Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction Add to Wish List
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Cummington, MA: The Cummington Press, [1943]. Second edition, limited to 333 copies set up by hand in Centaur types and printed at Cummington , Massachusetts during August and September, 1943. With one textual change from the first edition. Read More Item Details for Notes toward a Supreme Fiction Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Palm at the End of the Mind. Selected Poems and a Play. Edited by Holly Stevens Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1951. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Necessary Angel Add to Wish List
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New York: Knopf, 1950. First edition, One of 3000 copies printed. Includes two of Stevens' important longer meditative poems, "An Ordinary Evening in New Haven" and the title piece. Read More Item Details for The Auroras of Autumn Add to Wish List
Item #60876
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. Read More Item Details for The Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems Add to Wish List
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957. First Edition, First Printing (one of 4800). Read More Item Details for Opus Posthumous. Edited, with an Introduction by Samuel French Morse Add to Wish List
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