Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 230

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
STEVENS, WALLACE. Harmonium. 8vo, publisher's 1/4 cloth-backed grey patterned boards, printed paper spine label; dust jacket, spine panel sunned, split along spine/rear panel fold, three tape repairs on verso; later ownership inscription on front pastedown; custom cloth chemise and 1/4 morocco slipcase. Second edition, first binding, presentation inscription by Stevens to Filipino-American artist Alfonso Ossario: "To the Painter from the Poet," below which is Ossario's own inscription "Gift of Dunstan Thompson / Cambridge Mass. '34" and with the artist's monogram below. Also with Ossario's stylized and enlarged monogram in red and black ink on the half-title. Edelstein A1.b. [With:] Description Without Place. 8vo, stapled wrappers. 1945. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931