May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 585
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ASHBERY, JOHN. Some Trees. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, spine titles gilt; unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel tanned, two 5mm closed tears at top edge. Fine copy in near-fine jacket. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956

Additional Details

first edition, presentation copy inscribed: "for David Nielsen / John Ashbery / KGB [almost certainly referencing the New York City bar of the same name] 10/18/99." Ex-collection Donald M. Allen with his erased but still visible pencil signature on the front endpaper, editor of the influential anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960, that featured various post-war non-academic schools of poetry in the United States.