Clinical sonnets

by Merrill Moore

$350 · Offered by Rootenberg Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc., 1950 . 8vo. 72 pp. FIRST EDITION, THIRD PRINTING. Original publisher’s cloth, pictorial endpapers by Edward Gorey, in original black, white and red dust-jacket, spotted at lower panel. Fly-leaf inscribed and dated 1950 by Moore to Louis Untermeyer. Item #11723 First edition, third printing, the first to contain the comical Gorey endpapers.

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