THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES

by Richard Wilbur

$650 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Original light green cloth w/ dark green lettering in dustjacket; small 8vo. 55 pp. The poet's first book, only 750 copies issued; reissued at a later date by Harcourt Brace, who bought Reynal in 1947. This copy signed and briefly inscribed; the previous owner's name and small pencil eraser-sized ink out on the ffep, a small inventory

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