signed first edition Hardcover
1947 · Boston
by CIARDI, John
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with a tanned spine. Author's second book. INSCRIBED revealingly at length by the poet on the front endpaper to the poet William Meredith: "Bill--/This is an uneven book -- some of/the poems were written at a time/when I wasn't sure I'd live to/finish them, and many still need/revising. But please accept it/in token of something we both remember./And with all good wishes./John/June 9, 1980." (Inventory #: 018026)