Wallace Stevens — Opus Posthumous

London, Faber and Faber, 1959. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first UK edition of this posthumous collection from one of America's most respected poets, Wallace Stevens. The first UK thus, with about one third of the material appearing here for the first time. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Wallace Stevens was an American modernist poet, whose writings became meditative and philosophical as he explored the notion of poetry and of making art. This poetry collection spans the entirety of Stevens' career, and is one of several posthumous publications, wonderfully completing the public canon of his work.  The volume contains seventy-six poems and selections of poems, including his two plays and an extended selection of the proverbs called 'Adagia&apos.  In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with shelf wear. Dust wrapper is also very smart, with edge wear and sunning to the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.