The Auroras of Autumn.
STEVENS, Wallace.
The Auroras of Autumn.
First Edition of Wallace Stevens' The Auroras of Autumn
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1950.
$1,400.00
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Item Number: 142950
First edition of this classic National Book Award winning collection. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional presentation, rare in this condition.
The Auroras of Autumn features a collection of poems containing also the 1948 Stevens long poem of the same name, whose title refers to the Aurora Borealis, or the "Northern Lights", in the fall. The book collects 32 Stevens poems written between 1947 and 1950, and was his last collection before his 1954 Collected Poems.
