THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Original light green cloth w/ dark green lettering in dust jacket; 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 inscribed on the ffep "for __ __/ With thanks for his kind gift/..../Richard Wilbur/ Cummington/ 27 February 2012". The dust jacket flaps and endpapers with old cello tape, residue from removed bookplate, else very good, in a worn and price-clipped good dust jacket (in removable protective archival jacket). Good + / good +. Item #13682
Price: $300.00
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