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In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.
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First edition, limited to 1,000 copies; the author’s first book. Schwartz, brilliant yet troubled, was a gifted American poet, short-story writer, and critic whose allusive, ironic work probed alienation, guilt, and the weight of history. In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1938) made him the youngest Bollingen Prize winner. He influenced Malamud, Berryman, and Bellow, and inspired the title character in Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift.
Description: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, (1938). 171, [3]pp. 8vo. Cloth, no dust jacket. Spine sunned and slightly cocked; shelf wear; pages toned per quality of paper. Neatly inscribed “Ex Libris James Gallagher 1940” along the front free endpaper gutter. A good copy.
[3732680]Price: $250.00