Tristram.

ROBINSON, Edwin Arlington.

$475.00

Item Number: 145430

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927.

Signed limited edition of this popular Pulitzer prize-winning Arthurian narrative poem. Octavo, original publisher’s half cloth, top edge gilt. One of three hundred and fifty copies signed by Edwin Arlington Robinson on the limitation page, this one is number 167. In near fine condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. From the library of Frank Irving Fletcher, a prominent freelance copywriter of advertising who famously wrote in his autobiography ‘Lucid Interval,’ “The aim of modern advertising is not to make people think, but to save them the trouble and effort of thinking.”

Edwin Arlington Robinson was an American poet who won three Pulitzer Prizes for his poetry. He is best known for his narrative poems and character studies that often depict the lives and struggles of ordinary people in small-town America. His third in Robinson's Arthurian trilogy, following 'Merlin' and 'Lancelot,' 'Tristram' is the retelling of the Celtic legend of the love between the warrior Tristram and Iseult, the wife of King Marc of Cornwall.