NORTH & SOUTH

by BISHOP, Elizabeth

$1,250 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Close to Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with minor edgewear, a small chip on the front panel near the spine and a larger chip at the rear lower corner with a closed tear extending a few inches. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature at Stanford University whose students included John Steinbeck and who is considered a great influence in Steinbeck's formative years.

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Year: 1946
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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