A MARIANNE MOORE READER by Moore, Marianne - 1961

New York: Viking Press, 1961. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. xviii, 301 pp. First edition, first printing; signed and inscribed by Moore. As issued, in publisher's cloth with dust jacket. A very bright copy with limited shelfwear, contents clean; dust jacket shows moderate wear with some heavy sunning to the spine; price intact on the front flap. This copy signed and inscribed by one of the giants of 20th century literature. Moore was an integral part of a modernist literary movement in the early 20th century, the editor of The Dial for half a decade in the 1920s, and awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for her Collected Poems (1951). Laid in at the rear is an errata page that was supplied by Moore at the time of the inscription. Oxford American National Biography.