first edition first printing hardcover in dust jacket (Knopf 1971); no marks of any kind; minimal age tone; tight bind; clean cloth cover bright titling; dj edge wear: short tear top front and top back panels; flap price present Oa

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Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879, and died in Hartford, Connecticut, on August 2, 1955. Although he had contributed to the Harvard Advocate while in college, he began to gain general recognition only when Harriet Monroe included four of his poems in a sepcial 1914 wartime issue of Poetry . Harmonium , his first volume of poems, was published in 1923, and was followed by Ideas of Order (1936), The Man with the Blue Guitar (1937), Parts of a World (1942), Transport to Summer (1947), The Auroras of Autumn (1950), The Necessary Angel (a volume of essays, 1951), The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (1954), and Opus Posthumous (first published in 1957, edited by Samuel Frued Morse; a new, revised, and corrected edition by Milton J. Bates, 1989). Mr. Stevens was awarded the Bollingen Prize in Poetry of the Yale University Library for 1949. In 1951 he won the National Book Award in Poetry for The Auroras of Autumn , in 1955 he won it a second time for The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens , which was also awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1955. From 1916 on, he was associated with the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company, of which he became vice president in 1934.

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Bookseller: DrPanglossBooks (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 918812
Title: The Palm at the End of the Mind
Author: Wallace Stevens
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good+
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: first edition
ISBN 10: 0394469089
ISBN 13: 9780394469089
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1971

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