A Cedar Box
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1929]. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. With a foreword by Louis Untermeyer. 8vo. Original decorated cloth-backed boards, paper label, untrimmed. Slight rubbing at extremities. Item #409203
First edition of this book of poetry, limited to 1500 numbered copies, of which this is Copy No. 1 and also the dedication copy. 'A Cedar Box' is dedicated: "For A. N. M. and The Doctor." Right beneath this printed dedication Nathan has written: "With the poet's best love – Bob." The dedicatees were Nathan's aunt, the writer Annie Nathan Meyer, and her husband. Nathan is best known for the novel 'Portrait of Jennie' (1940), considered a classic of fantasy fiction, which was made into a movie starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton. Laurence A9; Merle Johnson, p. 391. (BA).
Price: $750.00