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Seller's Description:
Very Good + in good + jacket. First edition, 1962. 8vo, hardcover, 32 pp. Book is signed and warmly inscribed by author in year of issue (from MacDowell Colony) to front flyleaf. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmarked. Book is Very Good+, with age-toning to pages. Mild bumping to corners of boards. Light rubbing nd bumping to foot of spine. Dust jacket is Good+ with short closed tears to front panel where it meets crown of spine and to top edge of rear panel. Sunning to spine and to top edges of jacket. Bumping to tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. First edition. Edges with a bit of rubbing, else fine in a sunned and rubbed, very good dust jacket with a bit of wear along the top edge. Warmly Inscribed by Sward on the front fly, to author and literary critic Malcolm Cowley.
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Fine in Very Good+ jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) London: Putnam, 1962. First Edition. Fine/Very Good+. First U. K. Edition, inscribed with handwritten poem and SIGNED by author, in unclipped original jacket. Clean marbled paper-covered boards with black cloth spine, gold lettering on spine. No fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound-no cracking. Pages and edges are clean. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper as follows: "For Jim and Gladys, with affection and admiration, Bob Sward-Cornell. November, 1962." Followed by this handwritten poem by the author with his initials at the end: "Marriage"-I lie down in darkness beside her, This earth in a wedding gown; Who, what she is, I do not know. Nor is it a question the Night would ask. I have listened-The woman beside me, breathes. I kiss that, a breath or so of her, and glow. Glow. Hush now, my shadow, let us day breaks-depart. Yes, and so we have. -R.S." Dust jacket is not price clipped, unchipped, no tears, slightest hint of soiling. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover.