Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1958.
First edition.
Octavo (22cm).
Unclipped dust jacket.
Publisher's black cloth binding.
101 pp.
Dust jacket has some rubbing and edgewear; creases and small tears near crown of spine.
Some foxing to top edge and verso of jacket.
Endpapers foxed.
Some spotting to boards.
Corners square.
Binding sound.
Several lines of a poem written in light pencil on front free endpaper.
Pages are otherwise unmarked.
Binding sound.
Overall, a very good copy in like jacket.
Signed without inscription on title page.
TLS laid-in from Nemerov to David Posner, a fellow poet and assistant curator of poetry at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
The letter is undated.
In it, Nemerov apologizes for not being able to meet up with Posner and also for "having failed to put you and your name together.
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