signed first edition Hardcover
1972 · New York
by ASHBERY, John
New York: The Viking Press, 1972. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to fellow poets Daniel Hoffman and Elizabeth McFarland: "for Liz and Dan Hoffman with my best, John Ashbery 11/11/76." 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. A book that is invariably spine-faded, (truncated)
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