BEFORE DISASTER.
Tryon, NC: The Tryon Pamphlets, [1934]. First edition.
Original green printed wrappers, octavo (22.5 cm). vi, 26 pp. A near fine copy with mild toning to spine, and no internal markings, preserved in acetate. First edition of Before Disaster, a pivotal poetic sequence by Yvor Winters, issued as No. 3 in the Tryon Pamphlet series. One of 300 copies printed.
This work marks Winters’s shift from imagist experimentation to a more formal, philosophical poetics, composed amid rising global unrest. Winters, a poet, critic, and influential voice in American literary modernism, offers here a tightly controlled meditation on moral collapse and intellectual clarity. A scarce title in collectible condition, sought after by collectors of modernist poetry, small press publications, and pre-war literary movements.
OCLC: 2900283.
Price: $200.00