Description
The first edition of A Primitive Like an Orb by Wallace Stevens, a limited edition of 500 copies, with drawings by Kurt Seligmann.
Octavo, [16pp]. Publisher’s sewn printed wrappers. Printed on Etruria paper, with two full-page drawings by Kurt Seligmann. One of 500 copies for sale, printed at the Banyan Press in March 1948, for the Gotham Book Mart.
(Edelstein A13.)
The wrappers were issued in bright green, olive green, and orange, with no priority among the three colors.
First published here, the poem was later collected in The Auroras of Autumn in 1950.
