signed first edition Softcover
1956 · Oxford
by POSNER, David Louis
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Stiff, stapled wrappers. Cover illustration by Dario Cecchi. Foxing to wrappers, and slightly in the text, else near fine. Poem by an American-born, Kenyon, Harvard, and Oxford-educated poet. This copy Inscribed by the author: "Coco Devotedly Ever, David. Oxford. June 20, 1956." As near as one could come to a dedication copy of this poem, which bears no printed dedication. When published in America, as the title poem of the author's first mainstream publication, *The Deserted Altar and Other Poems*, the books printed dedication read "These poems are for Coco." (Inventory #: 81643)