– 59 – A u g u s t 2 0 2 2 Wallace Stevens’ The Auroras Of Autumn, Inscribed First Edition 69. STEVENS, Wallace. The Auroras of Autumn. New York, 1950. Octavo, original blue cloth, dust jacket, custom slipcase. $7500. First edition of Stevens’ last collection of new poems—winner of the National Book Award—inscribed: “Charles G. Wray from Wallace Stevens.” After the publication of this collection Stevens wrote of the volume: “Looked at as a publication of the kind of poetry that I try to write it seems to me to be perfect. It compels the reader to move through it slowly and deliberately and it gives him the sense of being in appropriate surroundings. He is not pulled away from one thing to the next.” With 32 poems, some previously in magazines such as Kenyon Review and Poetry; one poem, “A Primitive Like an Orb,” printed separately in pamphlet form, March 1948. Copyright statement of a simultaneous publication in Toronto “is a formality, and no Toronto imprint has been located” (Edelstein). One of only 3000 copies printed. Booklabel affixed to chemise. Book fine; dust jacket spine gently toned, very nearly fine. A lovely inscribed copy.
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