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  • Frontispiece portrait. xi, 152 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
  • n.p.: [Privately Printed, 1927
By Untermeyer, Richard Starr
n.p.: [Privately Printed, 1927. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece portrait. xi, 152 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. Edges slightly browned; Very Good+. One of 250 copies. Frontispiece portrait. xi, 152 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Memorial edition produced by Jean and Louis Untermeyer after the suicide of their son at Yale, Jan. 26, 1927. Comprising the complete opus of Richard’s poems, as well as 8 wriien by his mother and father.

Laid in is a TLS dated 12/2/26, from the young Untermeyer to Robert Marks, about college and a new romance (the break-up of which was thought to be the cause of his suicide). Also a postcard to the same friend and newspaper clippings announcing his death.

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