Description
For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first edition, first printing hardcover copy of Love Songs by Sara Teasdale with a Poor dust jacket protected in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 1917 Macmillan. Early printing with 1925 on the title page.
The book exterior is in Very Good condition with bright boards with a few light spots on the back, strong title ink on the sharp-edged paper label on a convex spine. Also, lightly soiled page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, , mild edge wear, and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with the previous owner’s name stamped on the first paste down. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean, supple and lightly toned, making this an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket.
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading writers in the new Romanticism movement. The book of poems, originally published in 1917, saw five additional printings before its 1918 edition owing to the tremendous demand for her work. The collection was selected as the 1918 winner of the Columbia University Poetry Prize (a precursor to the Pulitzer Prize for poetry). In spite of her commercial success and influence on other female poets such as Edna St. Vincent Millay, the style of Teasdale’s work fell out of fashion and has often been ignored in anthologies of work from that period.
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