Item #15292 SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL. Theodore Roethke.
SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL
SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL
SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL
SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL
SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL

SEQUENCE, SOMETIMES METAPHYSICAL

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1963. First edition. Hardcover (issued without a dust jacket). Gilt-lettered orange paper-covered boards, slipcase; Tall 8vo. Number 79, of 270 copies (330 total) printed on a Washington Press from Romanee Type and original blocks on Rives Heavy and Mulberry. The first publication of these twelve poems considered by critics as among his finest, with accompanying wood engravings by John Roy. This sequence included in the posthumously published THE FAR FIELD won the National Book Award; previously Roethke had been awarded the Pulitzer and Bollingen. Spine a bit dark. Slipcase lightly scuffed; loss to one corner and case paper cracked. Easily very good. Very good +. Item #15292

Price: $400.00

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