signed first edition Hardcover
1954 · New Haven
by HOFFMAN, Daniel
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Slightly cocked else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with age-toning and small nicks and tears. Author's first book, chosen by W.H. Auden for The Yale Series of Younger Poets. Inscribed by the author: "For Dad with love Danny. 4 April 1954." Hoffman served as the Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress (the equivalent of the United States Poet Laureate) in 1973-1974 and published several additional books of poetry and literary scholarship.
(Inventory #: 417989)