first edition Cloth
1982 · New York
by Johnson, Denis
New York: Random House, 1982. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/very good. First edition stated of the author's first major poetry collection and first hardcover book following a couple of scarce chapbooks. Appreciative rear cover blurbs by Raymond Carver and David St. John. Selected by Mark Strand for the National Poetry Series. A very good copy in black cloth binding in very good price intact dustwrapper. Uncommon in the clothbound edition. (Inventory #: 11537)