3 Marianne Moore first editions are documented on this shelf, from Poems (Egoist Press) (1921) to The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore (1951) across 3 different publishers. Each linked guide gives the points of issue that separate a true first printing of that Marianne Moore title from later printings and book-club copies — the publisher and year to expect, the number-line or edition-statement conventions, and the tells that show up in online listings.
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- Poems (Egoist Press) — 1921 · The Egoist Press, LondonFirst edition, Abbott A1 — Moore's first book. The Egoist Press (Harriet Shaw Weaver), London, 1921, printed at the Pelican Press, 2 Carmelite Street, E.C. Small octavo, about 21.5 x 14 cm, 24 pp. (collated 23,[1]), gathering twenty-four poems. Issued sewn and string-tied in stiff decorated patterned-paper wrappers with a printed paper label on the front cover. No jacket was issued — glassine, when present, is…. UK true first; there is no US edition of this book and no original-language question. The census claim is confirmed: Poems was arranged in London by H.D. and Bryher with Weaver's agreement and printed without Moore's knowledge or approval — she disapproved of the selection and editing while praising the typography and cover — and it precedes Observations (The Dial Press, New York, 1924). One correction of…. No book-club issue and no contemporaneous reprint — the Egoist Press printing stands alone. The traps are modern: print-on-demand and facsimile reprints of the 1921 sheets carry modern ISBNs (e.g. 9781293822333) while their catalogue records still read 'Egoist Press, publisher; Pelican Press, printer', which reads as a first to a keyword search; and full scans are freely available (Internet Archive, Project….
- Observations — 1924 · The Dial PressMoore's first authorized American book, gathering the 1921 poems plus roughly thirty additional pieces, and winner of the 1924 Dial Award. First printing: The Dial Press, New York, 1924, a small edition bound in three-quarter black cloth over boards with a printed paper spine label; it carries no later-printing statement. The Egoist Press 'Poems' (London, 1921) is Moore's true first book chronologically, arranged without her consent by H.D. and Bryher; 'Observations' (Dial, 1924) is her first authorized book. Catalogue both honestly. No book club. The 1925 second edition of Observations is slightly revised, distinguished by its edition/printing statement and by changes to the contents; the 1924 first has no such statement.
- The Collected Poems of Marianne Moore — 1951 · MacmillanWon the 1951 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the National Book Award. First American printing: Macmillan, 1951, in dust jacket; introduction by T. S. Eliot. The Bollingen Prize was awarded to Moore in 1953 as a career honor, not specifically for this book. Publication is genuinely tangled: the sheets of the first American edition were printed in England and shipped over. The Faber (London) edition was published September 14, 1951, ahead of the American-printed Macmillan copies issued December 17, 1951. Catalogue both honestly rather than asserting a single clean true first. No book club. The Faber London issue is distinguished by its imprint.
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