Girls on the Run : A Poem (Review copy) by Ashbery, John - 1999

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999. Review copy, with publisher's pre-publication promotional sheet laid-in ("GIRLS ON THE RUN will be published... on April 13, 1999"). First printing with "First edition, 1999" so stated. Fine condition in a Fine dust jacket. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NOT price clipped ($20.00). A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight copy. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp and unmarked. Nineteenth book of poetry by a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Bound in the original beige boards with a black cloth spine lettered in shiny gold. From the Dust Jacket: "GIRLS ON THE RUN is a poem loosely based on the works of the 'outsider' artist Henry Darger (1892-1972), a recluse who toiled for decades at an enormous illustrated novel about the adventures of a plucky band of girls… John Ashbery's GIRLS ON THE RUN creates a similar childlike world of dreamy landscapes, lurking terror, and veiled eroticism. Its fractured narrative mode almost (but never quite) coalesces into a surrealist adventure story for juvenile adults.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Fine dust jacket. Illus. by Darger, Henry (jacket art). 8vo. (viii), 55pp.