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INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING, TLS, AND JACKET DESIGN BISHOP, ELIZABETH. Poems North & South - A Cold Spring. 8vo, cornflower blue cloth lettered in white, the slightest rubbing to spine ends and tips; dust jacket designed by Loren Mac Iver, some minor creasing and rubbing to spine, edges, and folds, remnants of cellotape on endpapers, affecting some of the inscription; custom cloth folding box with gilt-lettered leather spine label. Boston, 1955
first edition. lovely association copy warmly inscribed and signed by bishop to loren mac iver and lloyd frankenberg, with a pen drawing by bishop on front endpaper: a charming ink sketch of a line connecting a direct route from Petropolis, Brazil (where she was living while writing these poems) to New York City where her friends resided. The painter Loren Mac Iver and her partner, literary critic and scholar Lloyd Frankenberg, were among Bishop's closest and long-time friends. Mac Iver's maquette for the rear dust jacket panel design for this book is included, tipped to cardboard, with "Back of Jacket / Without title etc. on leaf" typed on verso, though with prominent glue stains visible on recto. A Typed Letter Signed to Lloyd with numerous pen corrrections in her hand is included, though not related to this work. In it, she relays a humorous story about John Wayne at The National Lampoon Magazine dinner. One page, 8vo, on Bishop's Sixty Brattle Street Cambridge stationery, folded, Nd.
