Presentation Copy
The Complete Poems.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.
Price: $2,500.00
About the item
First edition, first printing. 216 pp. 8vo. Presentation Copy. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered on spine; printed dust jacket designed by Roxanne Cumming. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket with light toning and several soft creases to the inner flaps. MacMahon A9.
Item #345635
Presentation Copy, inscribed on the division title for the first work: "Jean Doreski, regards from Elizabeth Bishop / Harvard, December 4th, 1970." This edition consisted of 5,500 copies and was awarded The National Book Award for Poetry.
