North & South

by Elizabeth Bishop

$2,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First edition, first printing of the poet's rare first book. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth stamped in silver. Near Fine with faint mottling to cloth, offsetting to endsheets with lengthy owner inscription to front free endpaper and pastedown, contents tanned. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the extremities and light tanning. A lovely copy, in much

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