The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

54. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. The Barefoot Saint. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran &
Company, 1929. First edition. 12mo, cloth. Bookplate; small spot to rear, light soil, lacks
dust jacket. One of 367 numbered copies, the entire edition, with decorations by Valenti
Angelo. $50
55. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Ballads and Poems 1915-1930. Garden City: Doubleday,
Doran & Company, 1931. First edition. 8vo, boards. Spine darkened, near fine in slipcase,
rubbed One of 201 numbered copies signed by Benet. This copy was in the library of Walter
Chrysler and has his leather booklabel on the front pastedown. $125
56. BENET, ROSEMARY AND STEPHEN VINCENT. A Book of Americans. Illustrated by
Charles Child. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Covers
lightly mottled, as usual, spine faded; front boards slightly bowed, near fine in a bright, fresh
pictorial dust jacket with a few small tears and tiny chips. Inscribed to a noted New York
bookseller on the half title and signed by both authors: “For Mr. Arthur Pforzheimer,
Rosemary Benet, Stephen Vincent Benet.” $200
57. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. James Shore’s Daughter. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran
& Company, 1934. First edition. 8vo, boards. Spine darkened, covers a bit marked, near fine
in original glassine, torn, and slipcase. One of 307 copies, numbered and signed by Benet. $75
58. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Burning City: New Poems. Decorations by Charles Child.
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1936). First edition. 8vo, black cloth. Slight browning from
binder’s glue, else fine in a lightly rubbed, spine-darkened dust jacket with a pair of tape
mends. A nice presentation copy inscribed by Benet apparently to fellow-Pennsylvanian
Mary Roberts Rinehart: “To Mary, with the affectionate regards of S.V.B.” Laid in as a
bookmark is the publisher’s advertising slip for Rinehart’s bestselling 1936 novel The
Doctor. $150
59. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Johnny Pye & the Fool-Killer. Drawings by Charles
Child. Weston, Vermont: The Countryman Press, (1938). First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Spine
and edges faded, good. One of 750 numbered copies signed by Benet and Child. $50
60. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Ballad of the Duke’s Mercy. New York: House of Books
Ltd., 1939. First edition. Crown 8vo, blue cloth. Edges very slightly faded, else fine in
original glassine, sunned and with a few tears. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by
Benet. $75
61. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Nightmare at Noon. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1940).
First edition. 8vo, printed wrappers, stapled. Fine. Signed by Benet on the half title page. A
war-poem. $50
62. BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT. Selected Works. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. First
edition. Two volumes, 8vos, cloth. Spines slightly faded, near fine in slipcase. $40
63. BENET, WILLIAM ROSE. Rip Tide: A Novel in Verse. New York: Duffield & Green, 1932.
First edition. 8vo, blue cloth. Near fine in a spine-darkened dust jacket with some edge-wear
and general soil, one tape mend. $35
64. BENET, WILLIAM ROSE. Day of Deliverance. A Book of Poems in Wartime. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1944. First edition. 8vo, terracotta cloth. A hint of fading, else fine in a
lightly rubbed and chipped dust jacket. An amusing presentation copy, inscribed sloppily by
Benet on the front flyleaf to poet Leonora Speyer. Laid in is a two-page TLS from Benet to
Speyer, apologizing for the drunken state in which he inscribed the book: “. . . Really I am
too old to misbehave myself so, and I am terribly sorry. . . The trouble was I was having
entirely too good a time with people all of whom I love. You don’t often get so simpatica a
group together in this life. Also I have the most lovely wife in the world and I would not
worry her! . . .” At the end of this abject missive is a cartoon self-portrait of the writer
composing contritely at his desk with lines emanating from his head to indicate the effects of
a hangover. Both Benet and Speyer served as Academy chancellors. $100