signed first edition Hardcover
1975 · New York
by GLÜCK, Louise
New York: The Ecco Press, 1975. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dust jacket with a tiny closed tear on the front cover. Signed in the title page and additionally Inscribed on the facing page to poet and editor Douglas Blazek: "For Doug Blazek with good wishes Louise Glück." The Poetry Foundation calls Blazek "one of the instigators of the Mimeo Revolution" and a "force in the American poetry 'underground' of the 1960s." In addition to publishing heavily early in his career, Blazek also founded and edited the magazine *Ole* and the small press Open Skull, where he published Bukowski, Robert Crumb, d.a. levy, and other "underground" writers. A lovely copy of the Nobel laureate's second book, with an excellent association. Housed in a fine custom royal blue clamshell case with the spine titled in gilt and the author's gilt facsimile signature on the cover.
(Inventory #: 501001)