Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto
Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including the Olympic Manifesto
The Property of a Gentleman
Auction Closed
December 18, 08:58 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
The Property of a Gentleman
STEVENS, WALLACE
Notes toward a Supreme Fiction. Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1942
8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 in.; 223 x 146 mm). Title-page and section titles printed in black, gray, and yellow. Publisher's ivory buckram, spine and upper cover lettered in black, lower cover lettered in gray, gray endpapers; spine and edges with light browning.
First edition. Copy 24 of 80 roman-numbered copies (of a whole edition of 273), signed by Stevens. With promotional flyer for the book laid in.
REFERENCE:
Edelstein A 6a
PROVENANCE:
Elizabeth Denison Kray (signature, 1943; bookplate from Poets House Library stating this is from the Kray Collection)