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LOWELL, ROBERT. Land of Unlikeness. Title-page printed in red, blue and black, with woodcut by Gustav Wolf. 8vo, publisher's blue boards lettered in red, spine head chipped with mild darkening along board edges; scattered foxing to endpapers; housed in custom folding box. (Cummington, MA): Cummington Press, 1944
first edition, association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to critic F. W. Dupee, at whose home Lowell and his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, spent their honeymoon: "For Fred,/'Sunt aliquid manes,'/with love and gratitude/from,/Cal." The quote is from Sextus Propertius and is roughly translated as "The spirits do exist." One of 250 unnumbered copies of Lowell's first book.
