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The Changes
by Morse, Samuel French; ; William Austin Kienbusch [Association]
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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About This Item
Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"
American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.
Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our meaning clear."
Book with light toning along the upper gutter of the front endpage, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light rubbing along folds, mild wear to extremities, and faint toning to back cover margins, else fine. A lovely association copy of historical relevance.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022719
- Title
- The Changes
- Author
- Morse, Samuel French; ; William Austin Kienbusch [Association]
- Illustrator
- Lynn Meiners
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Alan Swallow
- Place of Publication
- Denver
- Date Published
- 1964
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, Literature, a Wallace Steven's scholar and recipient of the Emily Clark Balch and the Arthur Davison Ficke prizes for poetry. From 1983 to 2009, Northeastern University Press awarded the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize in his honor.
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Glossary
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- Gutter
- The inside margin of a book, connecting the pages to the joints near the binding.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Association Copy
- An association copy is a copy of a book which has been signed and inscribed by the author for a personal friend, colleague, or...
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