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Macmillan. Collectible - Good. 1941, 1st. Blue-grey cloth covers are slightly darkened at edges and spotted. Wear to corners and spine ends. Interior is clean and sound. Dust jacket is worn, w/chips to top front corner and to spine heel. 2 inch tear and creases to top front dj near spine.

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 54 pp., including notes. Somewhat uncommon (published during the war years, paper being scarce): the bibliographer reports 1251 sold, and the book went out-of-print within the year. Nevertheless among the poems are favorites like "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'", "The Pangolin" and the title poem. Abbott A6. A very good copy, blue topstain, very lightly faded, the preliminary pages unevenly toned as usual; in a fragile near very good dust jacket with some loss especially to the bottom of the spine. Front flap deeply clipped as are all copies we have seen, but with the price remaining ($1.50). (in removable archival protective covers).

New York: Macmillan, 1941. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 54 pp., including notes. Somewhat uncommon: the bibliographer reports 1251 sold, and the book went out-of-print within the year. Nevertheless among the poems are favorites like "He 'Digesteth Harde Yron'", "The Pangolin" and the title poem. A much nicer than usual copy: sunned at extremities, end papers lightly toed as usual, with a note in pencil of four poems not in "Collected"; in a front flap clipped (front flap, top and bottom, as are all copies we have seen) dust jacket, with the price ($1.50) still present, worn with small loss at corners, but still close to very good (in removable archival protective covers). Abbott A6.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Small, attractive bookplate front pastedown, slight sunning and a little wear on the boards, very good lacking the dustwrapper. A scarce and fragile wartime book.

WHAT ARE YEARS, Macmillan, 1941, first edition., vg+ in vg dust-wrapper with some wear and tear.

New York: Macmillan Company, 1941. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Bottom of the spine a trifle bumped, else fine in a lightly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper with light edgewear. A better than usual copy of a scarce and fragile wartime book.

Evidence of folding, buy in fine condition. 4to (11 x 8.5 inches). One page. Fair copy transcribed, signed and dated May 3, 1942 by Moore. Moore titles the poem at head, and writes its complete 27-lines in her characteristic neat, sinuous hand. She notes that it was made at the request of Thomas Brumbaugh of Greencastle, PA, and that it is the poem as published by Macmillan in 1941. One of Moore's most accessible and famous poems, "What Are Years" explores life through the questioning of binary opposites. Thomas Brumbaugh noted in his essay "In Pursuit of Miss Moore" that he wrote his first letter to the poet while a college student in 1942, reaching out to her both as a collector of signatures and a fellow poet. She sent this fair copy to him in May 1942, and wrote to him on his reply: "If your autograph-hunting has not had phenomenal results, it is perhaps because the requests made, follow a stated pattern. I do not favor autograph-collecting; it yields too little in the way of true flavor and… Read More