From William Cowan, Oban, United Kingdom
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MOORE, Marianne. Collected Poems. New York: MacMillan 1951. Signed by the author on half title and with 'CW's Hampshire Bookshop/ N.B. Errata' added by her at the bottom of the same page. Errata slip loosely laid-in. First edition, first 'withdrawn' American issue, with orange boards, Macmillan title page and jacket, of Moore's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection. Light off-setting to front and rear free end-papers which is common to this title, otherwise a Fine copy in like dustjacket which is very slightly faded on the spine and has a 2mm nick on the bottom edge. Note: The first edition of Marianne Moore's Collected Poems was printed and bound by Faber & Faber for both the English and American markets. Of a total first printing of 5000 copies, 3500 were for UK and 1500 for USA. The American issue was printed with an integral title-page for Macmillan, and exported to the United States to be issued there first as Moore was an American and to protect copyright. When the books arrived in America customs released part of the shipment with the standard stipulation that they could not be released until customs clearance was given. Macmillan innocently sent out review copies, believed to have been between forty and sixty copies, before word came back from customs that the books were not admissible because they lacked a printed copyright notice on the verso of the title page. If they had been released Moore would have lost her copyright so they were shipped back to England. Marianne Moore's bibliography Craig S. Abbott writes: 'In a strict sense, these copies were never issued'. The official publication date of the British edition was September 14, 1951; the first edition of the Collected Poems to be printed in America was published on December 17, 1951. Moore's Collected Poems swept all of the major American literary awards for poetry: the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Seller Inventory # 000652
Bibliographic Details
Title: Collected Poems
Publisher: Macmillan
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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