signed first edition Hardcover
(1986) · St. Paul, MN
by GIOIA, Dana
St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, (1986). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Livingston's bookplate, designed by Antonio Frasconi, tipped to the front pastedown. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Poet's impressive first full-length book of which apparently only 750 copies were bound in hardcover. There was a Windhover Press publication with the same title published four years earlier. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "with best wishes/and excellent auguries" on the title page to poet and children's book author, Myra Cohn Livingston. (Inventory #: 020488)