# Is "Transport to Summer" by Wallace Stevens a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Transport to Summer by Wallace Stevens (Alfred A. Knopf, 1947) is identified by: First edition, Alfred A. US Knopf first edition; gathers the previously separate Cummington Press poems Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction and Esthétique du Mal.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- First edition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1947, limited to 1,750 copies (Edelstein A11.a.1)
- The first printing is bound in green paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine and a printed paper spine label, carries the Borzoi device on the copyright page, and shows no later-printing notice; many copies were issued uncut and partly unopened, in the original printed dust jacket
- Collation approximately [2], [viii], 147, [3] pages, 8vo
- Publisher imprint reads Alfred A. Knopf
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Wallace Stevens |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year | 1947 |
| True first | US edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | First edition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1947, limited to 1,750 copies (Edelstein… |
| Book-club edition exists? | Yes |

## Points of issue
First edition, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1947, limited to 1,750 copies (Edelstein A11.a.1). The first printing is bound in green paper-covered boards with a black cloth spine and a printed paper spine label, carries the Borzoi device on the copyright page, and shows no later-printing notice; many copies were issued uncut and partly unopened, in the original printed dust jacket. Collation approximately [2], [viii], 147, [3] pages, 8vo.

## Is this the true first?
US Knopf first edition; gathers the previously separate Cummington Press poems Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction and Esthétique du Mal.

## Telling it from reprints & book-club editions
No book club edition.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Transport to Summer* by Wallace Stevens a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/transport-to-summer
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-03.