Returning to Vienna 1947: Nine Sketches
[New York]: The Banyan Press, 1947.
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Softcover. First edition. Tied decorated paper wrappers with printed label. Small nicks, and splitting along the spine, a handsome, else very good copy. One of 350 numbered copies for sale (out of a total edition of 500) Signed by the author. Carl Van Vechten's copy with his bookplate, and Inscribed to him by Milton Saul and Claude Fredericks, publishers of The Banyan Press: "For Carlo with Love from his Mup and his Zawy. Christmas 1947."
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Stephen Spender
birth name: Stephen Spender
born: 2/28/1909
died: 7/16/1995
Biography
English poet and critic, who made his reputation in the 1930s with poems expressing the politically conscience-stricken, leftist "new writing" of that period. He was later known less for his poetry than for his perceptive criticism and for his editorial association with the influential reviews Horizon (1940-41) and Encounter (1953-67). - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore