INSCRIBED BY ALLEN TATE TO PUBLISHER HARRY DUNCAN
On the Limits of Poetry. Selected Essays: 1928-1948.
New York: The Swallow Press and William Morrow & Company, Publishers, -1948.
Price: $350.00
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First edition. xviii, 379pp. 8vo. INSCRIBED BY ALLEN TATE TO PUBLISHER HARRY DUNCAN. Orange cloth. Spine lightly faded, with one-inch tan stain at base of spine, bottom and fore-edge have very faint tide mark, else a very good copy, with text quite fresh and clean.
Item #329680
Warmly inscribed by Allen Tate, to publisher Harry Duncan, on the front flyleaf, in year of publication: "For Harry [Duncan], with gratitude and love, Allen. September 14, 1948" [Harry Duncan, of The Cummington Press, published a number of books by Allen Tate (spanning four decades), including 'Sonnets at Christmas,' 'Fragment of a meditation: 1928,' etc.]. Harry Duncan published Robert Lowell's first book in 1947, after meeting him through Allen Tate, his godfather (the three men were converts to Roman Catholicism). A nice association copy.
