Selected Poems

by Elizabeth Bishop

$3,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

London: Chatto & Windus, 1967. First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, inscribed to British artist Kit Barker and his wife, Ilse. Their collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton. Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, In the world of literature, she is now perhaps best known as the

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