Item #47753 John Keats. Amy Lowell.

Presentation copy

John Keats

Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1925. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 631,[1]; viii, 662; 32 plates; spine alittle sunned; very good in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spines. Presentation copy inscribed in volume I by Lowell to "Grace, with much love from Amy, February, 1925." Beneath this inscription is once from Grace, "with much love," dated 1977. Mounted to the front pastdown is a Christmas card, signed "Amy" produced by the publishers on behalf of Lowell, noting that the book will not be ready at Christmas, but that it will come in January. "Grace" is likely Amy's friend and poet, Grace Hazard Conkling. Lowell wrote the Introduction to Conkling's book of verse, Little Girl in 1920. Item #47753

Price: $500.00

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