Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1939]. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her very uncommon third book - Peter's biography of Sarton quotes her as saying that she bought 50 copies for friends, and she thinks that was all that sold. This copy must have been one of the first which she gave away: it is INSCRIBED by Sarton "For Ariel" and dated Jan 30, 1939 - and underneath is "(I can think of nothing else to say / for Yeats is dead today.)" His death was actually on the 29th, but the 30th is the day the news would have arrived in the US. Laid in is a typescript on thin onionskin paper of two poems 'Allegory' and 'A Rose…
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, [1939]. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her very uncommon third book - Peter's biography of Sarton quotes her as saying that she bought 50 copies for friends, and she thinks that was all that sold. This copy must have been one of the first which she gave away: it is INSCRIBED by Sarton "For Ariel" and dated Jan 30, 1939 - and underneath is "(I can think of nothing else to say / for Yeats is dead today.)" His death was actually on the 29th, but the 30th is the day the news would have arrived in the US. Laid in is a typescript on thin onionskin paper of two poems 'Allegory' and 'A Rose for Rilke' with hand corrections and dated Jan 18, 1939 (this had been paper-clipped to the title page, and both that page and the typescript have small rust stains.) 64 pp.
Condition: Near fine in coarse beige cloth with blue and rust lettering in a good only dust jacket with some chipping to upper edge, toning to the spine and other wear. Still very uncommon in dustjacket and especially so inscribed by Sarton in the year of publication.
INNER LANDSCAPE: Poems.
