White Colors (First Edition)

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Full green cloth, with gilt and silver spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket with slight rubbing. Prior owner's name on FEP. Publisher’s original price of $7.95 intact on jacket flap. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 247 pages. "White Colors" is a novel that blends lyrical prose with themes of art, love, and the search for personal truth. Reeve (1928–2013) was an American poet, novelist, translator, and academic who taught literature, humanities, and creative writing at Wesleyan University for more than four decades, serving as chair of its Russian Department. He made literary history in 1962 as Robert Frost’s translator during the poet’s visit to the Soviet Union and later published "Robert Frost in Russia" about that trip. Author of over thirty books, he received the New England Poetry Club’s Golden Rose Award and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Today he is remembered for his contributions to Russian–American literary exchange, his novels and poetry, and as the father of actor Christopher Reeve, to whom he bore a striking resemblance. This is his ninth book.…