Oct 16, 2008 - Sale 2157

Sale 2157 - Lot 29

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
COWLEY, MALCOLM. Group of 12 Signed First Editions. Most by or translated by Cowley. All but The Green Parrot with dust jackets as issued. New York, vd

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The Green Parrot. 1929 Radiguet. The Count's Ball. Translated by Cowley. This was the title that inspired George Stevens, Cowley's editor at Norton, to contract him for a book of essays that would become Exile's Return. 1929 Aragon, Poet of the French Resistance. Translated by Cowley. 1945 Writers of To-Day. Signed at Hemingway chapter. 1945 Harvard Advocate Anthology. Also Signed by Percy MacKaye and John Hall Wheelock, who notes that his entry "For a Book of Poems" is not in any of his previous publications. 1950 The Literary Situation. Inscribed to Felicia Geffen of the AAL. 1954 Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Second U.S. edition. 1958 Whitman. Leaves of Grass. Introduction by Cowley. Inscribed to poet Karl Shapiro who wrote a blurb. Jacket is price-clipped. 1959 How We Live. Cowley's copy of the anthology, Signed with his holograph corrections. 1968 Unshaken Friend. Scarce First U.S. uncorrected proof. 1972 A Second Flowering. Additionally signed by Tony Buttitta, author of the F. Scott Fitzgerald memoir After the Good Gay Times. 1973 Eisenberg. Malcolm Cowley: A Checklist of His Writings. 1975.