Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 90

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
MARIANNE MOORE'S COPY MOORE, MARIANNE. Hilda Doolittle. Collected Poems of H.D. Dated and Signed twice (on front free endpaper, "1925," and rear free endpaper, "September 1961"). With Autograph Quotation, written by Moore on rear free endpaper, 14 lines from her "Briefer Mention" article, published in the October 1924 issue of The Dial, reviewing H.D.'s Heliodora and Other Poems. 8vo, publisher's cloth, spine faded and darkened, minor chipping at backstrip head; moderate uneven toning on front endpapers touching signature, rear hinge cracked; dust jacket separated into 4 loose pieces at vertical folds, markedly chipped at all edges. First Edition. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925; inscriptions: 1925, September 1961

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The quotation: ". . . The perfect cadences and formal beauty of these poems, the Periclean world made for us here, of matter delicately sumptuous, are dazzling . . . ."