Jun 19, 2014 - Sale 2355

Sale 2355 - Lot 204

Price Realized: $ 6,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
FIVE EARLY WORKS INCLUDING FIRST BOOK REZNIKOFF, CHARLES. Group of 5 First Editions. Small 8vo and 12mo, original printed wrappers; condition very good plus or better with exception noted below. New York: 1918-23

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Rhythms. Reznikoff's very scarce First Book. Brooklyn: Privately printed for the author by De Vinne Press, 1918 Poems (I II III). NY: Samuel Roth, (1920) Uriel Acosta: A Play and A Fourth Group of Verse. Chipping to fragile printed over-wrap with front flap detached, not affecting lettering. NY: Cooper Press, 1921 Chatterton, The Black Death, and Meriwether Lewis, Three Plays. NY: Privately printed, 1922 Coral and Captive Israel. NY: Privately printed, 1923.

an excellent group of five of reznikoff's earliest published works. One of the original Objectivist poets along with Louis Zukofsky, Carl Rakosi and George Oppen, Reznikoff would have to wait until late in his life for the recognition that eluded him in his earlier years. In 1974 John Martin of Black Sparrow Press began publishing Reznikoff's work, including a volume of Collected Poems, and his status as a vital figure in 20th century American poetry was solidified. Each of these five titles were of limited issue and are quite fragile; surviving collectible copies are seldom seen.