first edition
1952 · New Haven
by Merwin, W.S.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952. First edition. xiii, 67 pp. Original blue paper boards, printed in light blue, with the dust jacket. Top edge of boards a little sunned, jacket spine tanned (as usually seen) with some light soiling. Volume 49 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, chosen and with an introduction by W.H. Auden. According to Bloomfield and Mendelson's bibliography of Auden, 511 copies were printed. The rare debut volume of a major American poet. (Inventory #: 2021)