THE NECESSARY ANGEL: Essays on Reality and Imagination.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with aittle bumping to the spine tips, the cloth toned to the spine and board edges. The contents, with a small name to the front endpaper and spotting to the prelims and closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is toned to the spine and panel edges and has a 4cm closed tear (without loss) to the top right of the upper panel. Not price clipped (21s net to the front flap).

A posthumous collection of essays and speeches by Wallace Stevens, on the art of poetry and the relationship between imagination and reality.