Laughlin, James, ed.

New Directions in Prose & Poetry (1936, first annual volume, inscribed by Laughlin)

Norfolk: New Directions, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, yellow and red boards, very good, light rubbing, soil and wear, mild dampstaining to lower outer corners of the boards, contents very good and clean. Inscribed in red felt-tipped pen, "To John from J. Laughlin." Includes work by Wallace Stevens, Gertrude Stein, John Wheelwright, Ezra Pound, Jean Cocteau, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, E.. E. Cummings, ElizabethBishop, Henry Miller, Louis Zukofsky, Lorine Niedecker, and many others. The vaunted first volume of the greatest literary annual of the 20th century. Very uncommon. Very good. Item #h43068

Price: $250.00