Schwartz, Delmore; Pollet, Elizabeth

Portrait of Delmore: Journals and Notes of Delmore Schwartz: 1939-1959 with: Ephemera

ISBN: 0374236399
New York, NY, USA: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "The papers of Delmore Schwartz were fortuitously located, through a barroom conversation that led to their rescue by Dwight McDonald, several years after the poet's death in 1966. These journals and notes, now at Yale, provide a brilliant self-portrait of the poet, showing his creative genius at work. They are full of poems, notes for poems, night thoughts, daytime speculations. They also constitute an important document of the New York literary milieu of the forties and fifties." (from front flap) A voluminous compilation of private journals & notes by Delmore Schwartz (1913-1966), the great Jewish-American poet & author whose early promise was subsumed by alcoholism & mental illness. Edited & with an Introduction by Elizabeth Pollet (1922?-2012), a respected American novelist who was Schwartz's second, alas long-suffering wife, & the subject of some of Schwartz's writings here. Hardcover in unclipped first-issue dust jacket (with $35 price printed at front flap, "1086/3450" at back cover), first edition, "First printing, 1986" as stated at copyright page. From the collection of Laurence Goldstein (1943-2023), an esteemed American poet, author, editor & academician here at the University of Michigan. We found & have retained, between front paste-down & endpaper, several important items of ephemera: Copy of a poem about Schwartz by Stanley Moss, below which is Goldstein's hand-written information on its source in cursive blue ink, single sheet copied on one side only folded once horizontally in very fine condition; three sheets with Goldstein's teaching notes about Schwartz & this volume in pencil or black ink, taking up blank sides of copied portions of various articles, also folded once horizontally & in very fine condition. An essential Schwartz collectible in its rarest contemporary form; greatly enriched with Goldstein's professorial ephemera & with highly distinguished, relevant association & provenance. See also our item No. 6917. Book in relatively quite very fine condition with only a touch of wear & some tiny bumps, creases at edges & corners of front, back covers & spine; slight rubbing, a hint of age-toning & occasional faint scratching to edges of text block. Interior very fine with only a bit of age-toning, light spotting to thin edges/corners of some page leaves; tiny bumps & very small creases at upper corners of a few of same. Dust jacket fine-to-very-fine with very slight rubbing, faint scratching to front, back covers & spine; light wear & some tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same & flaps; possible very slight age-toning to mostly blank marginal areas of flaps, hardly distinguishable from their cream-coloring. Very Fine / Fine-Very Fine. [Item #9524]

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