POEMS Inscribed

by William Jay Smith

$100 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Banyan, 1947. First Edition. One of 500 numbered copies, of which this is no.201. Octavo; linen-backed decorated boards; 31pp. Inscribed by Smith to publisher William Ewert. A Very Good copy, one bottom edge worn through about one inch, otherwise with little wear in chipped and fragile original glassine jacket.Poet's first book, and a notable small press. Smith was a

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