May 23, 2024 - Sale 2670

Sale 2670 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950)
Renascence, First Edition in Dust Jacket.

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1917.

First edition, first issue on Glaslan paper, octavo; bound in publisher's black cloth, gilt stamped title to spine and front board, edges uncut; with scarce original dust jacket (minor stain to back board; jacket spine sunned, light thumbing to lower panel, but overall very well-preserved); housed in a custom green morocco-backed cloth box and chemise; 7 7/8 x 5 in.

Yost 3.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay's first book, with the titular poem "Renascence," rocketed her into the spotlight.

Provenance: Steve Forbes Collection.