Tate, Allen.

Mr. Pope and other Poems. New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1928, first edition of the author's first collection of poems, original cloth, dust-jacket; Poems: 1928-1931. New York: Scribner's , 1932, first edition, author's presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper in 1955, original blue cloth, lower panel of sellophane wrapper only, but with both printed inner flaps; Poems: 1928-1931. New York: Scribner's, 1932, first edition, original blue cloth, dust-jacket; The Mediterranean and other poems. New York: Alcestis Press, 1936, first edition, one of 165 copies numbered and signed by the author, original green wrappers; 8vo (4) 



Tate's most celebrated poem, "Ode to the Confederate Dead" is collected for the first time in Mr .Pope and other Poems; a "final version" of the same poem is reprinted in Poems: 1928-31.

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