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THEODORE ROETHKE

praise to the end!

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951
1st edition, full black and tan cloth, w/printed dj.

Roethke's third book, selected as a finalist for the National Book Award, from the scarce first printing in dust jacket. The front of jacket is illustrated with a photograph by Lotte Jocobi, and the rear flap of the jacket features a photo of Roethke by Frank Murphy. PRAISE TO THE END! is . . . a sequence of long poems bound by an internal unity and a logic of its own" (from the jacket notes). The present offering is one of only 750 copies of the first printing (McLeod A3).

A fine copy in complete (not price clipped) jacket showing only minimal wear.

Order number 5595
$550.00

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