Description: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Author: Elizabeth Smart Title: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Publication: London: Editions Poetry London, 1945 Edition: First Edition Description: Jacket design by Gerald WIlde. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket, red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to spine, 54 pp. First Edition of Elizabeth Smart's cult classic, a novel / prose poem based on her affair with English poet George Barker, with whom she had four of his fifteen children. The book was highly controversial upon its initial publication: Smart was summarily dismissed from her post at the British Ministry of Defence and her mother successfully banned its publication in Smart's native Canada, even going further to buy up as many copies as she could that made its way across the pond. Given its small print run of 2000 copies (and her mother's Seek and Destroy mission), the first edition remains rare in any condiiton. Very Good, with spots of sunning to edges and perimeters of spine extending to boards, touches of edge wear, prior owner's name to front free end paper.Internally bright and clean. / Good only jacket, with full flaps but significant loss to bottom of rear panel and spine, some chipping and creasing to edges of panels. Beautiful illustrated front panel almost entirely lossless despite the edge wear. Seller ID: 1238 Subject: Literature, Poetry, Tom Verlaine Collection BETTER READ THAN DEAD Better Read Than Dead is a used bookselling enterprise with two storefronts and a constantly growing online inventory based out of Brooklyn, NY. We have been buying and selling quality and interesting used literature for over ten years. Please get in touch with any questions, wishes, or concerns. Terms All orders ship within three business days. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available at added cost. We offer combined shipping on multiple orders. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.
Price: 720 USD
Location: Ridgewood, New York
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Author: Elizabeth Smart
Illustrator: Jacket design by Gerald WIlde
Publisher: Editions Poetry London
Year Printed: 1945
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
