WHAT A KINGDOM IT WAS

Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1960. First Edition. Very good + in a very good jacket.. First edition of the first book of poetry by this Pulitzer-winning American poet. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter light-gray cloth over black boards, in photographic dust jacket. Very good plus, in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Kinnell in 1963 at title page. Mild edgewear, small nicks and surface rubbing to jacket; light toning. Book shows two small ticks to boards. Interior bright and clean throughout (with at least one textual correction presumably by Kinnell himself). 83pp. Includes ephemera from Kinnell's appearance at Wabash College, where he signed this book.