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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Second Edition. First printing of the Revised Second Edition. Fourth binding (tan cloth). Octavo; cloth hardcover with printed paper spine label; dustjacket; 151pp. Novelist and poet John Clellon Holmes's copy, with his ownership signature to front endpaper, datemarked Columbia University, 1946. Darkening to cloth at crown of spine, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, chipped a extremities; front panel, which was once completely detached at spine-fold, has been minimally mended with archival tissue; conspicuously darkened on spine panel, but still presentable and Good. EDELSTEIN A1b. This edition, substantially revised, adds fourteen poems not present in the first edition. Sheets of the second edition were bound up over a period of thirteen years, this being the final iteration of 397 copies, bound in tan cloth in 1944. John Clellon Holmes (1926-1988) was a student at Columbia when he purchased this copy; in 1952 he would…

Harmonium is the first book of poetry by American poet Wallace Stevens, published in 1923. The collection includes many of Stevens' most famous poems such as 'Sunday Morning,' 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,' and 'The Emperor of Ice-Cream.' It is noted for its lush language, imaginative landscapes, and thematic richness.