Collected Poems

Tattered jacket, with many chips and tears, some closed with tape, price clipped. Inscription on the fly title page. Pages otherwise unmarked.

One or two of the poems has some underlining and marginal commentary, but the remainder of the collection is clean and unmarked. Firm binding; minor wear to edges/corners.

Doubleday & Company, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. Stated first edition. The complete oeuvre to date of a major American poet who is best know for the line ""Art is man's defense against hysteria and death."" A pristine copy, clean, unmarked and unclipped. In an archival Mylar jacket cover.

Faber and Faber, London., 1968. First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp xiv, 279. 200 poems.Near fine in very good, slightly nicked, price-clipped dustwrapper which has been laminated by a previous owner.