Call Me Ishmael
New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, (1947).
Price: $3,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with wear at the extremities including nicks, tears and creases. Inscribed by the author: "for William S. Akin / with the request he let me know more of his own interest in Melville / Charles Olson / Washington / January 1952." The poet's first book, a study of Melville and *Moby-Dick*.
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Charles Olson
birth name: Charles John Olson
born: 12/27/1910
died: 1/10/1970
nationality: USA
Biography
Avant-garde poet and literary theorist, notable for his influence on American poetry during the late 1950s. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore