first edition
1970 · Madison, Minn
by Transtromer, Tomas
Madison, Minn: The Seventies Press, 1970. First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. 59, [3]; original plain tan wrappers with tan pictorial dust jacket without a price on the front flap and with the '2' in "20" on the front panel in a smaller font. This is the first state of the dust jacket (see Gustafson for details). Also, wrappered copies appear to be the ones first shipped from the printer. This copy inscribed to Mankato poet: "For Rezmerski, John. Robert Bly [and with a typical Bly drawing of what I take to be a moose] and also from Tomas Transtromer." 2000 copies were printed, 1000 each in boards and wrappers. Transtromer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011. Gustafson B14.
(Inventory #: 50252)