signed first edition Hardcover
1964 · NY
by Berry, Wendell
NY: Braziller, 1964. First trade edition, first prnt. Cloth-covered boards in slipcase. Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Issued without dustjacket. Signed by Berry on the front free endpaper. Additionally, Berry has written, "We know the long approach of summers toward the healed ground... " which he quoted from the poem's concluding line. Near Fine condition. Slipcase has beginning toning. Berry's first poetry book, containing a single poem, an elegy commemorating the death of Kennedy.. Signed By Author with Quotation. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Not Issued. Illus. by Ben Shahn.
(Inventory #: 110065)