Five Rare Books for Collectors: Poetry
A presentation copy of Alice Rahon’s poetry book Sablier couché illustrated by Joan Miró, inscribed by the author to Peggy Guggenheim. The frontispiece is signed in pencil by Miró.
Highlights from Peter Harrington’s new Poetry catalogue include:
* A complete copy of Anne Bradstreet’s Several Poems Compiled with great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight... By a Gentlewoman in New-England. Bradstreet is credited as “the first American to publish a book of poetry”, and the first colonial poet in English”.
* Presentation copy of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Das Buch der Bilder, one of 50 deluxe copies printed on japon and specially bound by the Weimar School of Fine Arts, inscribed with a four-line poem for his friend Lucy von Goldschmidt-Rothschild. One of the most lavishly produced volumes of Rilke’s poems done in his lifetime.
* A highly unusual manuscript poem Bío-Bío by Pablo Neruda, handmade in booklet format with illustrations by the poet. Bío-Bío appears in part III of Canto General, published in Mexico City in 1950, the same year as this manuscript was made.
* Three unpublished letters from Derek Walcott to his American publisher, Robert Giroux, primarily concerning Walcott’s longest and most ambitious poem, Another Life (1973).
