Down in My Heart

by William E. Stafford

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Publishing House, 1947. First edition, first printing. Signed by William Stafford and inscribed to a former owner on the recto of the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original pale green cloth stamped in gilt, Near Fine with light fading to cloth, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light shelf wear and light soiling. A fantastic copy of Stafford's scarce first book--a collection of

• Printing: first

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