Finale of Seem, A Lyrical Narrative

The radical American poet's second book, 1929

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Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Card wraps, titled to spine with emblem to front cover. Fore-edge untrimmed. 19.5 × 14.5cm, xii + 92pp.

American poet and journalist Walter Lowenfels's second book, written while immersed in the expatriate circles of Florence and Paris. Drawing inspiration from the Imagist movement and his interactions with luminaries like Henry Miller, T.S. Eliot, and Ford Madox Ford, Lowenfels would go on to co-found the Carrefour Press with Michael Fraenkel. His literary career later took a dramatic turn when he returned to the US, as his political activism (he was a member of the American Communist Party) led to his arrest and conviction during the McCarthy trials.

Condition

There is light damage to the spine ends and the spine is creased. The contents are in good order, with clean pages but the inner binding is a little pulled in places, though no pages are loose. Some marking to the covers.