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Franklin Library leather edition of "The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens," a Limited edition, Frontispiece Portrait of the Poet by David Hockney from 'The Blue Guitar portfolio,' one of the 100 GREATEST MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1982. Bound in burgundy leather, the book has ivory moire silk end leaves, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in near FINE condition. Wallace Stevens, who lived from 1879-1955, was an American modernist poet. He was born in Pennsylvania and graduated from HARVARD and New York Law School. Stevens spent most of his life working as an insurance agent in Hartford, Connecticut. He was awarded the PULITZER PRIZE for Poetry in 1955. Some of his major poems included "Harmonium," "Transport to Summer," "The Cuban Doctor," "Bantams in Pine-Woods," "Sonatina to Hans Christian," "Of Hartford in a Purple Light," "Like Decorations in a Nigger Cemetery," "Nudity in the Colonies," "The Man with the Blue Guitar," "The Auroras of Autumn," "Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Sunday Morning," "The Irish Cliffs of Moher," "Anything is Beautiful If You Say It Is," "Sunday Morning," "The Virgin Carrying a Lantern," "The Emperor of Ice Cream," "Peter Quince at the Clavier," "The Snow Man," "The Doctor of Geneva," "Infanta Marina," "The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage," "Ploughing on Sunday," "O Florida, Venereal Soil," "The Idea of Order at Key West," "Anecdote of the Jar," and my favorites: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," and " A High-Toned Old Christian Woman." 468 pages, including an index of First Lines. I offer combined shipping.