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THE DIAL — VOLUME LXXVII (77)
July–December 1924
The Dial Publishing Company, New York
FIRST PRINTING OF WALLACE STEVENS'S "SEA SURFACE FULL OF CLOUDS"
An original 1924 bound volume of The Dial, one of the most influential American modernist literary and arts magazines of the early twentieth century.
This substantial six-month collection brings together significant modernist literature, poetry, criticism, and artwork from an extraordinary period in American and European cultural history.
PARTICULARLY NOTABLE CONTENT:
- Wallace Stevens — "Sea Surface Full of Clouds," first published in the July 1924 issue of The Dial.
- Virginia Woolf
- Marianne Moore
- Bertrand Russell
- Carl Sandburg
- Oswald Spengler — "The Downfall of Western Civilization," translated by Kenneth Burke
- Other important contemporary literary and artistic contributions
Includes striking reproductions of works by major artists, including Pablo Picasso, Georges Seurat, and Marc Chagall. Among the illustrations are Picasso's King Lear, Seurat's La Baignade, and Chagall's The Idiot.
All illustrated plates are present and intact.
CONDITION:
A very well-preserved interior with clean, attractive pages and occasional foxing on leaves facing illustrated plates.
Binding and hinges are tight and sound.
Former Cornell College Library copy, retaining institutional stamps, library cloth binding, and an old spine label.
The book is structurally sound, with the expected institutional markings. The exceptionally clean interior and intact illustrations are particularly pleasing.
Please examine photographs for details.
An appealing original 1924 collection for collectors of modernist literature, Wallace Stevens, literary first appearances, twentieth-century art, and historic periodicals.
