In a Green Knight: Poems 1948-1690

by Derek Walcott

$850 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first printing. x , 79 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards with spine lettered in gilt. Light foxing to textblock edges and musty odor to contents, small spot of foxing to front pastedown, else Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful copy of the Nobel Prize-winning poet's first collection of poetry to be published outside of the Caribbean. Item

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