PALIMPSEST
H. D. [Hilda Doolittle]
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Add to basketSold by Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Association Member:
AbeBooks Seller since 8 September 2020
Condition: Used - Near fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketInscribed first edition, in beautiful condition, of one the Modernist poet's greatest works, published by one of the movement's most important presses. The first book in H.D.'s semi-autobiographical Magna Graeca cycle, PALIMPSEST in many ways finds Doolittle turning away from the fragmentation of Imagism in the wake of WWI and toward a more cohesive narrative if still experimental style. She would later write: "[PALIMPSEST] is not intended as a work of art [.] It is a means to an end. I want to clear up an old tangle. [.] You must remember that writing poetry requires a clarity, a clairvoyance almost. I have been too weak to dare to be clairvoyant. I have tried instead to be merely sensible." Interestingly, several contemporary clippings are loosely laid in, including one with the headline: "H.D.'s 'Palimpsest' [.] Is Decipherable Only by a Few Clairvoyant Readers." Robert McAlmon's Contact was one of the original loci of the burgeoning Modernist movement. Many of his publications are notoriously fragile; this copy is exceptionally well preserved. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original beige typographic wrappers. "Printed at Dijon (France) by Maurice Darantiere." One of 700 copies. [viii], 340 pages. Inscribed in year of publication by H.D. on the front endpaper: "H.D. / London / 1926." Leaves largely unopened. Touches of shelfwear, faint soil here and there. Bookplate to verso of front wrapper. Else clean and sound.
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