The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

631. MEW, CHARLOTTE. Collected Poems. London: Gerald Duckworth, (1953). First edition.
8vo, red cloth. Gift inscription, else fine in a lightly chipped dust jacket with a couple of
small tears. Includes a biographical memoir of the poet by Alida Monro. $45
632. MEYER, GERARD PREVIN. Louder Than the Drum. New York: The League to Support
Poetry, 1943. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in original spider-web glassine, chipped. One of
400 copies in the edition, the outcome of the League’s poetry contest of that year. $30
633. MEZEY, ROBERT. The Lovemaker. Iowa City: The Cummington Press, 1961. First
edition. 8vo, maroon cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket. One of 2500 copies in the
edition. Loosely inserted is the announcement from the Academy, identifying this book as
the Lamont Poetry selection for 1960. $100
rare first printing
634. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Baccalaureate Hymn: 1917 Commencement Week
Vassar College, June Ninth to June Twelfth Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen.
(Poughkeepsie, New York: Vassar College, 1917). First edition. 12mo, [18]pp, illustrated,
patterned tissue guards at either end; original parchment wrappers with printed owl device
and purple leather tie. Covers very slightly soiled, else fine and fresh. The first printing of
Millay’s class hymn, in the graduation week program for that year. According to Yost, the
separate broadside printing was pulled subsequently from the same plate and issued shortly
before the distribution of this pamphlet. One of Millay’s earliest publications, distinctly
scarce, especially in such fine condition. Yost 2. $1,500
635. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Renascence. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1917. First
edition. 8vo, black cloth. Small clipped poem neatly affixed to front pastedown, bookplate
on verso of first leaf, discreet library label on rear pastedown, covers lightly rubbed. The
first issue, on watermarked laid paper. This copy bears the 1919 ownership signture of the
noted art critic and editor C. Lewis Hind, as well as his pencil note beneath the clipping. $300
636. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Aria da Capo (A Play in One Act). (London): The
Chapbook (A Monthly Miscellany) No 14, August 1920. First edition. 8vo, illustrated
wrappers. Heavy spine-wear to wrappers, which have become detached, edges chipped,
internally fine. $100
637. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT, The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts. New
York: Frank Shay, 1921. 8vo, orange wrappers (third binding). Near fine. $100
638. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Second April. New York: Mitchell Kennerly, 1921. First
edition. 8vo, black cloth. Ownership signature and rubberstamp; clipped obituary of Millay
neatly affixed to rear pastedown, but causing offsetting on the facing leaf; covers lightly
rubbed and a bit bumped. The first state, on watermarked laid paper. $125
639. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. Two Slatterns and a King: A Moral Interlude.
Cincinnati: Stewart Kidd Company, (1921). First edition. 12mo, printed wrappers. Trifle
rubbed, else fine. This copy has been signed on the half title page by Frank Shay, the editor
of the series in which the play appeared and occasional publisher of Millay. Above his
signature appear the initials “J.C.B.” in another hand. $250
640. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. A Few Figs from Thistles: Poems and Sonnets. New
York: Frank Shay, (1922). Revised edition. 8vo, cloth-backed boards. Spine soiled and a bit
rubbed, tips a trifle bumped, else fine in worn and taped slipcase. One 250 numbered copies.
One of the three works out of this tremendously productive year that secured Millay the
Pulitzer Prize in 1923. $100
641. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver. New York: Frank
Shay, 1922. First edition. Small 8vo, original printed orange wrappers. Faint spot on front, a
touch of rubbing at the base of the spine, otherwise a fine, fresh and bright copy. $300
642. MILLAY, EDNA ST. VINCENT. The Harp-Weaver and Other Poems. New York: Harper,
1923. First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Bookplate, covers very lightly rubbed, else fine without
dust jacket. $75