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Randall Jarrell. Poetry and the Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953....
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Randall Jarrell. Poetry and the Age. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; publisher's dust jacket.
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper: "To Marc and Clara May / from Randall." The recipient, Marc Friedlaender, helped found the Athenaeum Publishers of New York, of which he was an officer and an editor until 1965, when he moved to Boston to become co-editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The poet and literary critic Randall Jarrell helped define American poetry after World War II. Poetry and the Age, his first collection of criticism, includes groundbreaking evaluations of Walt Whitman and Robert Frost, as well as appraisals of the work of Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, John Crowe Ransom, and William Carlos Williams.
Condition: Minor bumping to corners. Dust jacket unclipped (priced "$4.00"), with very slight wear and rubbing to extremities; some light soiling.
References: Wright A5.
Provenance: 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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