first edition Hardcover
1947 · New York
by SMITH, William Jay
New York: Banyan Press, 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Cloth and decorated paper over boards. Owner name, some offsetting from review materials on two facing blank preliminary pages, and some light and easily erasable pencil notes in the text, near fine in a chipped, but mostly intact original glassine dustwrapper, and with a partial wraparound band. One of 500 numbered copies, this copy is number 12, and is unsigned. However, it is an Advance Review Copy with a slip, and publisher's nicely printed promotional material laid in. Both the promotional material and the wraparound band feature a quote about Smith from Marianne Moore. (Inventory #: 89028)