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Robert Lowell. Notebook 1967-68. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1969]....
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Robert Lowell. Notebook 1967-68. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1969].8vo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in silver; dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO CLOSE FRIEND ROBIN MACAULAY AND HIS WIFE on title-page: "For Robie & Ann / With love / from / Cal." Additionally, Lowell has inscribed below the printed heading "School" on p. 69: "This is your picture, not mine / Robert Lowell."
Robie Mayhew (1919-1995) was a classmate of Lowell's at Kenyon College, where he was a student of John Crowe Ransom. He lived in a writer's house with Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, and Randall Jarrell. In 1958 he succeeded Ransom as editor of The Kenyon Review, where over the next seven years, he published works by T. S. Eliot, Nadine Gordimer, Robert Graves, Randall Jarrell, Richmond Lattimore, Doris Lessing, Robert Lowell, V. S. Naipaul, Joyce Carol Oates, Frank O'Connor, V. S. Pritchett, Thomas Pynchon, J. F. Powers, Karl Shapiro, Jean Stafford, Robert Penn Warren, among many others. He remained one of Lowell's close lifelong friends.
Condition: Just a hint of sunning along upper edge of cloth. Dust jacket unclipped (priced "$6.00"), and very fine.
Provenance: Robie and Ann Macaulay (presentation inscription). From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2025 September 10 - 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part III, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6321 (go to Auction Home page)
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