First printing of the poet's second book. Fine cloth in like dust jacket, with only trace wear to cloth edges and very light toning to the verso of the jacket. Inscribed to poet "Grace [Schulman] with love, & respect, & joy at our continuing friendship... Yours, Rita." Her third book would go on to win a Pulitzer prize. Schulman was for many years the poetry editor of The Nation, ed. of The Poems of Marianne Moore's and is a well-published poet as well. Lovely association copy of the quite uncommon cloth issue of a significant volume of poems.