signed first edition Hardcover
1958 · New Haven
by HOLLANDER, John
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Fine in very good dustwrapper wtih small chips, tears, and light wear. Ownership signature of poet Daniel Hoffman dated in the year of publication. Inscribed by Hollander: "with love from John Hollander. April 1965." Hoffman's first collection of poems, *An Armada of Thirty Whales* (1954), was chosen for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by W.H. Auden. In addition to publishing several other volumes of poetry and important works of criticism, he also later served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974. The author's first book, also from the Yale Series of Younger Poets. A significant association.
(Inventory #: 417808)