THE OLD BACHELOR AND OTHER POEMS
[Miami]: Pandanus Press, 1951. First Edition. wraps. Plain stitched blue wraps with a printed paper label at the bottom front cover. Designed, set by hand, and printed in an impression of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. Very scarce first book by one of America's premier poets, preceding his first regularly published book, THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES, by nine years. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author close to publication in green ink "for Bill Wight, with good wishes--" and INSCRIBED and SIGNED again in 1990 to another person. Light wrinkling along yapped edges. Fine. Item #013972
Price: $4,500.00
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