PRESENTATION COPY TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND
The Mediterranean and Other Poems.
New York: The Alcestis Press, 170 Broadway, 1936.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
First edition, one of 30 copies for presentation, this being Number XIII, signed by the author on the limitation. Edition of 165 copies. With authorial manuscript corrections on pages 28, 46, 50 & 54. 57, [1] pp. 8vo. PRESENTATION COPY TO A SOUTHERN FRIEND. Green printed wrappers. Some foxing, else fine.
Item #309211
Also inscribed by the author on the second leaf, "To Harold Cash with highest regard, Allen Tate. November 11, 1936 see p. 21 line 9." Hal Cash was from a well-to-do Georgia land-owning family and was a Paris trained sculptor; Cash and his wife Ellen were good friends with Tate.
