War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, [1987]. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth with silver spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 60pp. Fine/fine. Item #49002
ISBN: 0226572420
Pristine first edition of this verse collection by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning two-time U.S. Poet Laureate (1920-91). Best of all, tipped to blank leaf facing the title page is a unique frontispiece: A Typed Document Signed, heavy stock 6" X 4" card, n.p., n.y. Fine. Typescript of Nemerov's brief poem "Absent-Minded Professor," boldly signed by him in black ink at the close. A superb first edition with delightful autograph addition.
Price: $125.00
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