March 2021 Catalogue

56 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “A Landmark Volume In Modern American Poetry” (Hamilton) 54. STEVENS, Wallace. Harmonium. New York, 1923. Octavo, original half blue cloth. $4500. Click for more info First edition of Wallace Stevens’ first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies in the rare first binding. Although Stevens had been publishing poems in magazines for almost ten years, Harmonium , published when he was 44 years old, was his first collection. Harmonium includes some of Stevens’ most famous poems, such as “The Emperor of Ice Cream,” “Peter Quince at the Clavier,” “Ploughing on Sunday,” “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” “Sunday Morning,” and “The Snow Man.” Without extremely scarce dust jacket. Text very fresh, gentle toning to edges of bright boards. A lovely about-fine copy in the rare first binding. I“ n my room, the world is beyond my understanding; / But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four / Hills and a cloud.”