Of the Festivity

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. First Edition. Octavo; xii, 47pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $3.50 price intact; book in red cloth with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Jacket shows a few clean, shallow tears along edges and some associated creasing, along with some general scuffs and smudges. Boards are square with some darkening along edges. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Publisher's review slip laid in at front.

Author's first collection and winner of the 1958 Yale Younger Poets Prize during the last year of W.H. Auden's tenure as judge.