signed first edition Hardcover
1995 · New York
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Slight soiling on front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Ashbery to fellow poet Daniel Hoffman: "for Dan, my predessor (sic). Warmly, john Ashbery 5/5/96." Presumably Ashbery meant to write "predecessor", but in what way Hoffman preceeded him is not clear: we speculate that the most likely explanation was that he did so at a poetry reading. (Inventory #: 417916)