Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Lot 279
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Lot 279 | Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)
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Wallace Stevens (1879-1955)

Ideas of Order. 1935

STEVENS, Wallace (1879-1955). Ideas of Order. New York: The Alcestis Press, 1935.



First edition, limited issue, of the author's second book, no.74 of 135 signed copies from a total edition of 165. The title poem ‘The Idea of Order at Key West’ is one of Stevens’s most celebrated works. Edelstein A2.a.



Octavo (237 x 160mm). Original cream paper wrappers, spine and upper cover lettered in black (spine slightly darkened with minor wear to ends, without the glassine dustjacket and cardboard slipcase); modern cloth slipcase.

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