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Conrad AikenUSHANT AN ESSAY.
New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan and Pearce / Little, Brown and Company, [1952]. Cloth. A rather used and edgeworn copy, in slightly worn supplied dust jacket. Item #WRCLIT69083
First edition of Aiken's autobiography, a work many regard as his most significant prosework. An inscribed presentation copy from Aiken to the daughter and son-in-law of his friends, Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon: "For Percy and Nancy from Conrad with all the polymorphouses [sic] 1957."
Price: $225.00