Sonnets To An Imaginary Madonna (Inscribed by Vardis Fisher to Ingle Barr)

New York: Harold Vinal, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Very good minus/very good. SIGNED. 47pp. Octavo [21 cm] Black boards with pink paper title labels on the front board and backstrip. The edges of the covers are rubbed, and there are thin losses from the spine ends. The free endpapers are dampstained along the fore edges. Ex libris Ingle Barr, with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown. In a dust jacket, with subtle darkening to the edges, and occasional small open edge tears. The author's first work in an original, scarce dust jacket.

This copy is inscribed to the noted book collector, Ingle Barr, by Vardis Fisher on the front free endpaper: "Dear Ingle Barr- / I am sorry you own / this. These sonnets are so / 'adolescent' / (?) every copy of them were / lost. They will never be / reprinted / Vardis Fisher.