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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1946. Second printing. Hardcover. 54 pages. Bishop's first book, a slim collection of poems with a first printing of only 1000 copies The winner of the tenth anniversary Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Award for a Volume of Poetry. A very good plus copy in cloth boards with some minor wear. No dust jacket. A solid copy of this important debut.

first edition first printing hardcover (Houghton Mifflin 1955); no dust jacket; prior owner front free end page, text unmarked; minimal age tone to text pages, offsetting present to end papers; tight bind; cloth cover has rub wear to panels, foxing to panels, little sunning to spine, rub to corner tips, vivid titling; no dust jacket ambib

Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Hardcover. Very good/Fair. Top of dust jacket is noticeably chipped. Back book cover has very light staining. Binding is tight. Inside is clean.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Early Printing. Very Good in a Good jacket, clipped, small tears and chips at the edges, creases throughout, a scar at the foot of the spine. Blue cloth, soiled, toned at the spine, white ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. An early printing of Bishop's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection.

Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The scarce first edition - Elizabeth Bishop's first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. A very good copy in original jacket (jacket price-clipped with minor nicks to edges; poetic ink gift inscription on front free endpaper; neat small ink name on front pastedown).

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Hardcover. First edition. viii, 95 pp. Very Good book in blue cloth with white letterng stamped to spine and front cover (binding square and tight, no markings; pages toning lightly, light scrape across spine) / Very Good dust jacket ($3.50 price not clipped; darkening to white spine, small chips to spine and spine extremities, 4" tear to top of rear dj flapfold; two short tears to base of spine, light foxing to inside of dj). A clean, solid copy. 2,000 copy first editon. Winner of the 1956 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First printing. 8vo. vii, [96] pp. Blue cloth. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. A few tears to jacket extremities, small chip to front panel. First printing with same date to title page and copyright page with $3.50 price intact on the jacket's front flap. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955. First edition. Blue cloth with white lettering in dust jacket; 8vo. John Frederick Nims' copy, his name in ink. Nims has noted in ink under the two subtitles the dates of publication "'46, '55". Laid in is a small sheet corresponding to brief notes (in light pencil) at the poems. Top edge a bit spotted, several pages with creased tips, but easily very good in a very good dust jacket: colors bright, small loss at extremities, one closed tear, and a small spot on the rear panel. Attractive association copy of the poet's second collection; one of 2000 copies printed. A Pulitzer Prize-winning volume. MacMahon A2. John Frederick Nims was a well-regarded poet, editor, professor, critic and translator, and Bishop's contemporary. He was the editor of POETRY MAGAZINE from 1978-1984.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A bright, very well-preserved copy of the 1955 1st edition. Solid and Near Fine (just a hint of very light offsetting at the front free endpaper) in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with a bit of light creasing and chipping at the spine crown. Elizabeth Bishop's 2nd published collection of poetry, for which she was awarded the 1956 Pulitzer Prize. A pleasing, significantly above-average copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition, first printing of this Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poetry. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in white. Near Fine with light rubbing at edges, faint fading to spine, evidence of bookplate removal to front free endpaper and pages toned. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light soiling and light edge wear, spine lightly toned. The author's second published book of poetry, originally published in an edition of 2,000 copies.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip at the rear lower corner with a closed tear extending a few inches. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature at Stanford University whose students included John Steinbeck and who is considered a great influence in Steinbeck's formative years.

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. Very Good. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the front free endpaper, inscribed "For Ilse and Kit Barker, with esteem and affection, Elizabeth Bishop." viii, 54 Bound in publisher's blue cloth binding lettered in silver, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with toning to spine and edges, spine ends lightly bruised. Top edge dust soiled with light foxing. Endsheets slightly foxed; contents have penciled marginalia. The acclaimed American poet's first collection. A nice association copy between Bishop and British couple the Barkers (whose collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton).

Boston: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY.. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in close to near fine dust jacket. (Couple small chips at extremities. Two 1/2"-inch edge tears on rear panel of jacket. ) The Poet's FIRST book. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. 1000 copies printed. (B) .

New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1955. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, "to Ilse and Kit Barker." She has also hand corrected the title of the poem "The Gentlemen of Shalott" to "Gentleman" in ink on both the table of contents and the poem itself. Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the world of literature, she is now perhaps best known as the influential American poet Elizabeth Bishop's 'Dear Ilse,' a reference to their mutual passion for letter-writing which nurtured a friendship begun at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in New York State, in 1950." viii, 95pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth stamped in white, lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with toning to spine, fading at edges. Light edge wear, heavier at spine ends, with foxing and soiling to boards and endsheets; slight musty odor. The author's second published book of poetry and winner of the… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop at the "Poetry Forum - February 1st, 1978" on title page. [viii], 54 pp. Original blue cloth lettered in silver. Near Fine in an edge-chipped about Very Good dust jacket, a hint of restoration along verso top edge, spine slightly dulled, price intact. An attractive copy housed in a custom slipcase. One of 1000 copies of the acclaimed American poet's first collection, scarce signed.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. First printing. Very good plus in a very good jacket.. Signed first edition of Bishop's first book, along with the original ticket from Bishop's reading where the book was signed. Bishop's famed debut, containing several of her best-known and most beloved poems, such as "The Fish," "The Man-Moth," and "The Map." Scarce signed, rare with original ticket. 9'' x 6''. Publisher's original full blue cloth with gilt titles. In original price-clipped color typographic jacket designed by Samuel Hanks Bryant. [viii], 54, [2] pages. Inscribed by Bishop on the title page: "Elizabeth Bishop - many year later -." Loosely laid in is the original event ticket to Bishop's May 21st, 1968 reading at The Academy of American Poets, with its original envelope. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing and minor chipping. Sunning to top edge of front panel, with attendant sunning to top edge of cloth Book has touches of shelfwear, mild toning to rear endpaper. Overall clean and sound.