TO A LITTLE GIRL, ONE YEAR OLD, IN A RUINED FORTRESS: A Poem in Five Parts. [inscribed association copy].
[New Haven]: Yale University, (1956). First edition. One of only about 175 copies [Grimshaw A14, p.84]. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Jane Doggett at Yale University's School of Design. This copy WARMLY INSCRIBED BY WARREN TO HIS LITERARY EXECUTER on front endpaper, "To Stuart (W)/ with admiration and friendship/ Red (W)." Bibliographer and publisher Stuart Wright was Warren's literary executor until just a year before his death ("Red" was Warren's nickname). Squarish blue-and-white paper boards measuring approximately 7.5 x 7.25"; unprinted spine; 36 unnumbered pages; issued without dust jacket. Provenance: bookplate on rear pastedown of Scott & Vivian Donaldson. Near fine with spine ends lightly rubbed and color touched up at corners. Scarce to rare signed by Warren.
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