{"product_id":"to-2026-088","title":"William Meredith Archive — First Three Books, Each Inscribed, with Autograph Poem and Manuscript Material","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMEREDITH, William. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArchive of the First Three Books, Each Inscribed, with an Autograph Poem, Letters, and Manuscript Material\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn archive bringing together inscribed copies of all three early books — one of them a limited first edition — with an autograph poem, letters to a single named recipient, and manuscript journal leaves is uncommon: a coherent association archive documenting both the published arc and the working hand behind it. \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSmall octavos and accompanying material. Minor wear to the dust jackets, one price-clipped; otherwise fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three volumes: \u003cem\u003eLove Letter from an Impossible Land\u003c\/em\u003e (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1944), the Yale Series of Younger Poets selection chosen by Archibald MacLeish, here the second printing; \u003cem\u003eShips and Other Figures\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), first edition, inscribed at Los Angeles in 1953; and \u003cem\u003eThe Open Sea and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958), the limited first edition, one of 1,000 copies printed from type and designed by Harry Ford. Each volume is inscribed by the poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTogether with: a full-page autograph poem, \"To Absent Friends,\" signed and dated May 1954; an inscribed postcard bearing the complete poem \"A Sensible Snowfall on Two Japanese Maples in Connecticut,\" dated Christmas 1958; a substantial typed letter signed; an autograph letter signed; and two leaves from a Colorado River journal. Also included: \u003cem\u003eReasons for Poetry \u0026amp; The Reason for Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e (Washington: Library of Congress, 1982), the published text of Meredith's two lectures as Consultant in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU\u003c\/strong\u003e TO-2026-088\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Meredith, William","offers":[{"title":"Fine","offer_id":46459953447073,"sku":"TO-2026-088","price":525.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0729\/7001\/0785\/files\/TO-2026-088_04.jpg?v=1784611282","url":"https:\/\/twoorangesbooks.com\/products\/to-2026-088","provider":"Two Oranges Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}