Poets, Farewell!

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Very Good -/Very Good. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, with Scribner's seal to copyright. Octavo (21.5cm); [viii],78pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering and black cloth spine. Jacket has been restored with tissue backing, showing evidence of some prior tears, creasing, and scuffs along edges and spine folds; jacket otherwise generally crisp with some toning down spine and to rear panel. Boards are square with light bumps at corners and spine ends. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper, else interior unmarked. Binding is sound.

Wilson's first collection of poems. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper with a somewhat undecipherable name at "Brooklyn State Hosp. / 681 Clarkson Ave / Brooklyn." A prior seller has written "EW's 1st Cousin" above, so if true the name would be that of Susan (Colston) Wilson, who was the first Director of Occupational Therapy at Brooklyn State Hospital and taught their first OT courses, and of whom Wilson's daughter, Rosalind Baker Wilson, wrote "was like a sister [to Edmund] and remained his closest family tie aside from his parents and his children, until death."

[See Wilson, Rosalind Baker - Near the Magician: A Memoir of My Father, Edmund Wilson].