POEMS FOR MIDNIGHT

by Donald Wandrei

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House: Publishers, 1964. Octavo, cloth. First edition. 742 copies printed. A collection of all the poems Wandrei wished to preserve, taken largely from his earlier collections, ECSTASY AND OTHER POEMS and DARK ODYSSEY 1931 . Each poem in the sonnet cycle 'Sonnets of the Midnight Hours' composed around 1927 was inspired by a dream of Wandrei's. The influence of Clark Ashton Smith with whom

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