Twenty-Five Poems by Hartley, Marsden - 1923

Paris: Contact Editions, 1923. First edition. Original Wraps. Orig. gray printed wrappers lettered in black in the original glassine sleeve. Fine. 60 pages. 19 x 14 cm. Signed by Hartley on the title page, an unopened copy from an edition surmised to be only 300 copies. Printed in Dijon by Maurice Darantiere. A superlative copy. The author/painters first book. This an early publication of Contact Editions, issued shortly after publishing Hemingway's Ten Poems.

Paris: Contact Editions, 1923. First edition. Fine, uncut, unblemished in the original glassine protective wrapper.. 8vo, 60pp; original printed gray wrappers. One of an unspecified number of copies in the edition, thought to be no more than 300, signed by Hartley on the title page. The book was printed by Maurice Darantiere for Robert McAlmon's Contact Editions. A lovely copy of the painter and poet's first book of verse.

Paris: Contact Editions, 1923. First Edition, 1/300 copies. Softcover. Octavo, 52 pages; G; in publisher's grey wrappers lettered in black; lacking original glassine wrapper, rear cover, parts of spine; front cover detached but present; Signed flat by Hartley on the title page; Additionally inscribed by Hartley on the dedication page: "For Eugene + Agnes O'Neill - these satires which will I hope amuse them. love to you both. Marsden. New York June 6. 1924"; with ink hand-corrections to pages 4, 5, 12, 34, 47, and 57; minuscule tear to middle of page 27; CX consignment; shelved case 0. This an early publication of Contact Editions, issued shortly after publishing Hemingway's Ten Poems. This was Hartley's first book, published in an edition of approximately 300 copies.; Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) the American Modernist painter, poet, and essayist, had an long-lasting relationship with playwright Eugene O'Neill. Strange Interlude, the play for which O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama,… Read More