Marianne Moore - Collected Poems, third printing, inscribed by Moore to Bixby

Description: A presentation copy of Marianne Moore’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning book, Collected Poems, inscribed and signed by Moore on 7 November 1953 to a future publisher of her work, George Bixby, accompanied by The Accented Syllable, Bixby's 1969 publication of Moore's work Marianne Moore New York: The Macmillan Company and Albondocani Press, 1952 and 1969 First American edition, third printing, and first, limited, and numbered edition Condition: FineJacket Condition: Very Good plus This is a signed and inscribed association copy of Marianne Moore’s Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning book, Collected Poems, presented by Moore on 7 November 1953 to a future publisher of her work, George Bixby, accompanied by The Accented Syllable, Bixby's 1969 publication of Moore's work. Moore’s inscription, inked in blue in four lines on the front free endpaper recto, reads: “George Bixby’s copy of | these Collected Poems | Marianne Moore | Nov. 7. 1953”. This third printing was issued in 1952 and the binding, contents, and dust jacket all appear virtually identical to the first printing. Condition is fine in a very good plus dust jacket. The navy cloth binding is square, tight, unfaded, and clean with sharp corners, bright spine gilt, and only trivial shelf wear to the bottom edges. The contents are likewise clean with no spotting and only mild age-toning. The pink dust jacket printed in dark blue is unclipped, retaining the original “$3.00” lower front flap price, and entirely complete, with no loss or tears. We note uniform, moderate toning to the jacket spine and flap folds and trivial wear to extremities. The jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover. Accompanying this inscribed presentation copy is a work by Moore published by Bixby’s Albondocani Press sixteen years after she inscribed this work to him. The Accented Syllable is an essay about poetic voice, tone, and intonation originally published in The Egoist in 1916 and not reprinted until this edition. The hand-numbered edition of 300 copies is lovely, bound in wire-stitched, blue, textured Bokuryu card wraps with a printed dust jacket illustrated and printed in blue and gold. The contents are printed on Hosho stock. This copy is hand-numbered “149” on the colophon. Condition is near fine, the contents crisp and bright, the wraps and jacket showing only the slightest wear to extremities and protected beneath a clear, removable, archival mylar cover. Bill Bixby was a bookseller, owner of Ampersand Books in Greenwich Village, and the proprietor of Albondocani Press. Bixby began his Albondocani private press in 1968, which remained active into the early 1990s, and was then later revived in the early 2000's. Known for its dedication to author, art and quality workmanship, the Albondocani has printed postcards, novels, collections of poetry as well as classic reprints. Authors include Joyce Carol Oates, the illustrator Edward Gorey, Gertrude Stein, Marianne Moore, artist Saul Bellow, E.M. Forster, Ellen Gilchrist and more. A luminary of American Modernist poetry, Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was described by T. S. Eliot as “one of those few who have done the language some service in my lifetime.” Moore began writing poetry while she studied at Bryn Mawr College in biology and histology. In 1918 she and her mother moved to New York City where her former classmate and fellow poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) introduced her to the members of the Greenwich Village avant-garde community. By 1921 Moore was working at the New York Public Library and published her first collection simply titled Poems. The following decades saw prodigious output from Moore as she continued to publish both her own poetry and the work of others as editor of the literary magazine Dial. Her work is noted for its humor, rich visual descriptions, and innovations in form and style. Collected Poems brought her work, already treasured among the intelligentsia, before a wider public. The collection received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry as well as the third National Book Award for Poetry. Atypically for a poet, Moore gained a sort of celebrity status in her late life. Her unusual daily uniform, a cape and tricorn hat, coupled with her long and respected output, lent the elderly poet a mythic status among her peers and made her a figure of curiosity to the public. Following her death in 1972 The New York Times honored her with a full-page obituary. 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Price: 570 USD

Location: San Diego, California

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