SIGNED Marianne Moore / Collected Poems 1st/1st 1951 RARE Pulitzer Prize Winner

Description: MOORE, Marianne. Collected Poems. New York: MacMillan 1951. Inscribed on the ffep by the author thus: "Betty Ryan Gordon's copy/ of these Collected Poems/ Marianne Moore/ November 7 1953". First American edition printed in USA and bound in Blue boards, following withdrawn American issue with orange boards printed by Faber in UK of Moore's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Near Fine copy, there is a tiny minor dent on the top of the boards, light wear to the cloth at the crown and corners, and crush at the bottom, else fine. The dustjacket is gently faded on the spine, there are some minor smudges and a small closed tear on the top left back. The history of this (first) edition of Marianne Moore's Collected Poems is that it was printed and bound by Faber & Faber for both the English and American markets. Of a total first printing of 5000 copies, 3500 were for UK and 1500 for USA. The American issue was printed with an integral title-page for Macmillan, and exported to the United States to be issued there first as Moore was an American and to protect copyright. When the books arrived in America customs released part of the shipment with the standard stipulation that they could not be released until customs clearance was given. Macmillan and Marianne Moore innocently sent out some copies, Moore inscribed to a number of friends and MacMillan to reviewers, it is believed the number of copies sent out to have been between forty and sixty, before word came back from customs that the books were not admissible because they lacked a printed copyright notice on the verso of the title page. If they had been released Moore would have lost her copyright so they were shipped back to England. Marianne Moore s bibliography Craig S. Abbott writes: "In a strict sense, these copies were never issued. The official publication date of the British edition was September 14, 1951; the first edition of the Collected Poems to be printed in America of which this is one was December 17, 1951. Moore's Collected Poems swept all of the major literary awards for poetry: the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.

Price: 495 USD

Location: Somerville, Massachusetts

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