First edition.
Blue clothcovered boards with spine titled in sliver.
Endpapers lightly toned else fine lacking the dust jacket.
Inscribed by the author: "With best regards to Newton Arvin, Kenneth Fearing.
" Proletarian poetry by Fearing, perhaps best known for his noir mystery *The Big Clock*.
Arvin was a respected literary critic who was an early mentor to Truman Capote.