[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce first book by Donald Justice: THE OLD BACHELOR, Signed twice

[Charles Agvent]

JUSTICE, Donald. THE OLD BACHELOR AND OTHER POEMS. [Miami]: Pandanus 
Press, 1951. First Edition. Plain stitched blue wraps with a printed 
paper label at the bottom front cover. Designed, set by hand, and 
printed in an impression of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. Very 
scarce first book by one of America's premier poets. This copy INSCRIBED 
and SIGNED by the author close to publication in green ink "for Bill 
Wight, with good wishes--" and INSCRIBED and SIGNED again in 1990 to 
another person. Light wrinkling along yapped edges. Fine. $4,500.00	

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