Author: Aiken, Conrad
Title: The Clerk's Journal / Being the Diary of a Queer Man: An Undergraduate Poem Together with a Brief Memoir of Harvard, Dean Briggs and T.S. Eliot
Description: New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. 1971. New York: The Eakins Press, 1971. 1971. Fine. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 8-3/8 inches wide. Bound in three-quarters orange cloth titled in gilt on the spine, in its original printed creamy tan dust wrapper. The dust jacket is soiled and slightly creased with a tear to the top edge of the front panel. Half-title, title, 26 pages, [1] leaf & an 18-page facsimile plus the colophon. Near fine in a good dust wrapper.

First edition published in a limited edition of 2,300 numbered copies.

The text includes a facsimile of the handwritten poem with corrections and of a one-page commentary written by one of Aiken's fellow students. Fine .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEM; POET; AMERICAN; CONRAD AIKEN; FIRST EDITION; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UNDERGRADUATE POEM; MEMOIR; HARVARD UNIVERSITY; T. S. ELIOT; DEAN BRIGGS; FACSIMILE; LIMITED EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; 1ST EDITION.

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