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North & South. Elizabeth Bishop. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. The Riverside Press Cambridge. Winner of the Tenth Anniversary Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Award For a Volume of Poetry. First Edition, 1946, Original Dust Jacket, 54 pp, 9.25 x 6.25", large octavo. In fair condition. Dust jacket exhibits the most wear with scuffed edges and some light chipped at head and tail of paper spine. Hinges of flaps are worn on dust jacket, general toning to white rear cover. Dust jacket remains intact & unclipped. Blue cloth boards lightly rubbed at edges and corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Silver gilt lettering and compass deco bright and clean. Small instances of finger-soiling on fore-edge of front end-page. Text-block clean. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize in Literature in 1976. In contrast to the ever-popular confessional style of poetry involving large amounts of self-exposure, Bishop's style of writing was known for its highly detailed, objective, and distant point of view, and for its reticence on the kinds of personal subject matter that the work of her contemporaries involved. She used discretion when writing about details and people from her life. For a major American poet, Bishop published very sparingly. Her first work, North & South, was first published in 1946 and won the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry. This work includes important poems like The Man-Moth, The Fish, and Songs for a Colored Singer (which she originally wrote for the Fall 1944 issue of Partisan Review). There were two print runs for this work in 1946, the first printing 1,000 copies and the second printing 500 copies. Bishop did not publish a follow-up to North & South until nine years later: Poems: North & South - A Cold Spring, first published in 1955, which included her first book, plus the 18 new poems that constituted the new "Cold Spring" section. Bishop won the Pulitzer Prize for this work in 1956. A First Edition of North & South, Elizabeth Bishop's first published collection of poems. GIFT QUALITY! RAREA1946LRUB 03/24 - HK1331.

Elizabeth Bishop's first published book, 'North & South', containing poems focused on travel, landscapes, and identity.