Selected Poems
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1951. Alvin Lustig (dust jacket). First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. 12mo. Pp. 111. Yellow cloth, title stamped in black on the spine. Edges trimmed. In the Alvin Lustig illustrated dust jacket, price clipped. Edges lightly age toned, leaves otherwise crisp and bright. Jacket edges rubbed, color bleached from the spine and portion of the cover. Very Good+ / Good+. Item #5746 Please see Purity of Aim: The Book Jacket Designs of Alvin Lustig by Ned Drew and Paul Sternberger, p. 45, for the high-pitched interaction between Muriel Rukeyser and Alvin Lustig, via publisher James Laughlin, regarding the dust jacket design. The scarce dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Issue number 32 in the New Classics Series. Poems previously published in eight different volumes 1935 - 1950.
Price: $125.00