A Shard of Silence; Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

New York: Twayne Publishers, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Edited by G.R. Ruihley. Inscribed by Ruihley on the front endpaper. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00)generally toned, a few shallow chips at the edges. Pale green cloth, bumped at the top edge, faded at the top edge, with green ink and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Ruihley's selection of Lowell's poetry that rearranges the publication timeline of Lowell's work to "approximate as far as possible an inner history of the poet who was, at the time of her death in 1925, widely recognized as the leading figure in modern American poetry.