You, Emperors, and Others: Poems 1957-1960.

WARREN, Robert Penn.

$975.00

Item Number: 143956

New York: Random House, 1960.

First edition of the collected poems of Robert Penn warren written in the years 1957 to 1960. Quarto, original publisher’s cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to poet and editor William Claire on the front free endpaper, “To William Claire in friendship Robert Penn Warren.” Very good in a good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box.

Robert Penn Warren remains the only writer to have received a Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry (in 1947 for All the King's Men, and in 1958 for Promises: Poems 1954-1956). You, Emperors, and Others includes Garland for You, Mortmain, Ballad: Between Boxcars, Autumnal Equinox on Mediterranean Beach, and Short Thoughts for Long Nights among others.