Valley of Decision: Poems by Allen Curnow, Dunedin in Dunedin, Otago for sale

No signatures. Light foxing. Some rubbing and discolouration to paper spine and string binding. A well preserved copy.; Scarce. Pages unnumbered. 23 poems. The author's first book, published when he was 22 years old. Some of the poems had earlier been published in"Kiwi","Phoenix", and"Art in New Zealand". The Auckland Students'Association Press was run by Bob Lowry and Ronald Holloway. Lowry's operation of the press and production of the"Phoenix"journal (which had 4 issues in total in its short life), was"proscribed"by the university authorities, after which Lowry moved south to Christchurch."Valley of Decision"was published as"Phoenix Miscellany: 1". In a note to a collection of his poetry published in 1974, Curnow wrote of this title:"In'Valley of Decision', and after it, some crisis or change from faith to scepticism may be read, however perplexed and precarious the faith was, and the scepticism no less so."[References: Robinson and Wattie,"The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature"(1998)].; 8vo
Author
Allen Curnow
Title
Valley of Decision: Poems by Allen Curnow
Publisher name
Auckland University College Students'Association Press, Auckland
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1933
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Soft cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
Vendor rating
Abebof326d