First printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1946. 9'' x 6''. Publisher's original full blue cloth with gilt titles. In original price-clipped color typographic jacket designed by Samuel Hanks Bryant. [viii], 54, [2] pages. Inscribed by Bishop on the title page: "Elizabeth Bishop - many years later -." Loosely laid in is the original event ticket to Bishop's May 21st, 1968 reading at The Academy of American Poets, with its original envelope. Jacket lightly edgeworn, with some rubbing and minor chipping. Sunning to top edge of front panel, with attendant sunning to top edge of cloth. Book has touches of shelfwear, mild toning to rear endpaper. Overall clean and sound.

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