Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer — First Symphony, a Sonnet Sequence

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1935 . First edition. Cloth. An uncommon signed first edition of Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer's sonnet sequence, retaining the original dust wrapper. With a presentation inscription from the author to the front free endpaper, reading 'For Professor Potter - Pages 66 and 96 may be of interest to you if nothing else - Harold T Pulsifer&apos.The uncommon first edition, first printing of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of eighty-one sonnets dealing with 'the symphony of life' from American poet and magazine editor Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, who in 1938 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, but with minor area of fading to back strip head and head of front board. Inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper back strip age toned, with small loss of paper to back strip head, and further loss and closed tears to head of front wrap, and significant edgewear and closed tears to head of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages a touch age toned, but otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good.