Various (Phillips, William (Editor); Rahv, Philip (Editor); Hardwick, Elizabeth; Jarrell, Randall; McCarthy, Mary; Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.; Schwartz, Delmore; Stevens, Wallace; Williams, William Carlos et al.)

Partisan Review Vol. XIV No. 3 (May-June 1947)

New York, NY, USA: Partisan Review, 1947. First Printing. Softcover. "My greetings to you, sir, whose memory,/ the striped coat and colors- What is one man?/ a man remembered still in the jacket/ of his success? of the winning club?/ in himself- successful? one man, alone?" (William Carlos Williams, "The Apparition," first five lines, pg. 296) This vintage 1947 number of the prestigious American literary journal chiefly edited by William Phillips & Philip Rahv features the above-quoted exemplary poem by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), the great modernist poet who would mentor & inspire Allen Ginsberg, & in turn the Beat Generation. Also in this issue are contributions of prose, poetry & criticism by such twentieth-century literary & cultural eminences as Elizabeth Hardwick; Randall Jarrell (the poem "Jews at Haifa," about Holocaust-surviving Jews turned away from British-Mandatory Palestine the year before the birth of Israel); Mary McCarthy, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. (his third installment on "The Future of Socialism"); Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), the brilliant Jewish-American poet & author whose early promise was even then being subsumed by alcoholism & mental illness; Wallace Stevens & more. With a deep & extensive review section, contemporary ads. Search our catalog for many other available issues of The Partisan Review. Trade-format softcover, presumed first-&-only printing. From the collection of Lawrence Goldstein (1943-2023), a renowned American poet, author, film critic, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. A classic issue in this most-collectible series, in its singularly rarest contemporary form & with distinguished provenance. In relatively quite near-fine condition with mild-to-moderate rubbing, age-toning, fading, faint scratching & occasional spotting to front, back covers & spine; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same; one small instance of surface paper loss from lower right edge of front cover; small mostly closed tears, chips at corner-edges of spine with very slight loss of paper; moderate wrinkling/faint creasing at spine; mild-to-moderate rubbing, age-toning & faint scratching to edges of text block. Interior (again relatively) fine with mild age-toning to inner covers & page leaves, mostly at blank margins/edges; tiny bumps & small, faint creases at corners of some leaves. Near Fine. [Item #7556]

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