Item No. 92
93. Spender, Stephen. COLLECTED POEMS 1928 - 1953. Introduction by the author. London: Faber and Faber, 1955. Fine in a like dust jacket. Inscribed by Spender on the half-title page to the Victorian literature critic Clyde de L. Ryals and his wife. Inserted is an additional white slip of paper with Stephen Spender’s address written in his hand and Ryals’ ownership signature is on the front end paper. $375.00 Sunday Morning 94. [Stevens, Wallace] POETRY A MAGAZINE OF VERSE. Vol. VII, No. II, November 1915. This issue contains the first appearance in print of one of Stevens’s major poems, Sunday Morning (5 stanzas only.) Stevens had submitted the complete eight stanza poem but the editor, Harriet Monroe, was willing to print only five that she selected, due to space considerations. Stevens insisted that the five stanzas should then be ordered I, VIII, IV, V, and VII, because that order would then be necessary to the idea. In addition, Stevens agreed to a substitute line in stanza V because Monroe had questioned the meaning. Edelstein’s notes go over the correspondence in detail. Very good, but with the spine perished and the front wrapper detached. [Edelstein C47] $50.00 95. Supervielle, Jules. PREMIERS PAS DE L’UNIVERSE CONTES. Paris: Gallimard, 1950. Very good in the publisher’s decorated cloth binding with nrf end papers, front and back. This is no. 823 of the cinquante, hors commerce copies, numbered 788 to 837 on vélin. $100.00 96. Teasdale, Sara. THE COLLECTED POEMS. With a frontispiece photographic portrait of the author by Nickolas Muray. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. A near fine copy in lightly dusted green cloth but with brilliant gilt lettering panels on the front cover and spine. The dust jacket has a bright front panel but is lightly faded on the spine which has very slight wear at the top. $75.00 TLS, signed Eudo, with an eight stanza typed poem 97. Welty, Eudora. TLS, WITH ENCLOSED TYPED POEM. A two-page letter to her close friend, Willie Spann, in Jackson, Mississippi, along with an enclosed two-page typed poem with hand corrections to the first and last stanzas. The letter is undated but the mailing envelope is postmarked New York, N.Y., June 29, 1949. Eudora Welty spent that summer in Manhattan staying in “a little sublet” at 31 Gramercy Park and making plans for a trip to Paris. Her letter begins with bemused quotations of two poems, To My Father and The Vampire Heart, that she has found in a book by a May. M. Duffee, of Washington, D.C. (sic), “that you would read aloud so giftedly,” then catches up on recent news with her friend at home in Mississippi. The enclosed poem, on a separate sheet, is headed Gramercy Park by May M. Fluffee, and is, at once, a deft parody on the naïve poet who has so intrigued her, but, also, a delightful appreciation of the beautiful and historic Manhattan survival for which, sixty years later, one still needs a key to enter. As in her last stanza: “I wish beautiful Gramercy Park were free to all, / And not surrounded by spikes so tall. / Those on the outside can only admire it. / Still, it is nice to have it private.” In her letter, she regrets not being able to send Willie a photo of May M. Duffee “which is the frontispiece of the book which is borrowed” but, thanks to the Internet, we have been able to obtain a copy of the book and it will be included with this item. The letter and hand addressed envelope (which has been carelessly opened) are in very good condition with folds. J. A. Cuddon, in A Dictionary of Literary Terms, has a
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