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Elizabeth Bishop
North & South
Houghton Mifflin
1946
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Rare edition of Bishop's collected poems featuring locations in Nova Scotia, a farm in Maryland, Florida, Paris, and Brazil.
- Elizabeth Bishop (American).
- New York: Houghton Mifflin, [1946].
- [viii], 54 pp.
- 8vo.
- First edition, second printing, one of 500 copies.
- Signed by the author on the title page.
- Original blue cloth, decorated lettering in silver, with silver compass rose to upper cover.
- Sold with dust-jacket by Samuel Hanks Bryant.
Bishop's first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. The publishers asked Bishop to submit a manuscript for the prize after reading her "Songs for a Colored Singer" in the Fall 1944 issue of Partisan Review. This is the second printing of 500 copies, which appeared the same year as the initial printing of 1000. The collection was reprinted, along with A Cold Spring, as her second collection in 1955. Signed copies of any printing of this first edition are rarely encountered in the market.
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MacMahon A1.
Condition Report
Very GoodVertical line offset to endpapers from jacket flap.
Hint of wear to board extremities.
Jacket with some chips and tears, rubbing and a bit of toning to jacket spine, price-clipped, but a better example than often found.
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