[Rarebooks] FS: Poet Donald Justice's Rare First Book, THE OLD BACHELOR, Signed

[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, preceding his first 
regularly published book, THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES, by nine years. 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. 
(#013972)        $4,500.00

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