signed first edition
1972 · Boston
by SEXTON, Anne
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1972. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 500 copies specially bound and signed by the author. Octavo (22cm); red paper and black cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; all edges gilt; publisher's original glassine overlay and red paper-covered slipcase; [2],vi,105,[1]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine glassine, with a few tiny tears along the upper edge; slipcase is gently sunned around the opening, else very Near Fine. A substantial collection of Sexton's poems, several of which first appeared in the pages of Kayak, Modern Occasions, New American Review, New Republic, and the New York Quarterly.
(Inventory #: 58787)