37 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Wallace Stevens’ The Auroras Of Autumn, Inscribed And Signed First Edition 41. 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. Edelstein A14.a.1. Booklabel affixed to chemise. Book fine; dust jacket spine gently toned, very nearly fine. A lovely inscribed copy. First Edition Of Cormac McCarthy’s Suttree, Publisher’s Review Copy Signed By Him, A Stunning Copy 42. MCCARTHY, Cormac. Suttree. New York. 1979. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $15,500. First edition of McCarthy’s celebrated, searing, semi-autobiographical novel, inscribed: “For Burt, Cormac McCarthy.” Publisher’s review copy, with a Random House typed press release for reviewers laid in. Considered by many McCarthy’s finest novel, Suttree features “a sensitive and mature protagonist, unlike any other in McCarthy’s work… Part Stephen Daedalus, part Prince Hal—he is also McCarthy, the willful outcast” (New York Times). Reviewer Jerome Charyn said McCarthy’s “text is broken, beautiful and ugly in spots… Suttree is like a good, long scream in the ear.” Although his fourth novel to be published, McCarthy began work on Suttree well before his first, The Orchard Keeper, saw print in 1965. This copy not one of the frequently found remaindered copies. Privratsky, 27. Book fine, with just a hint of sunning along upper edge; dust jacket with mildly toned spine lettering, as often, about-fine.
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