Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

London: Collins Harvill. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. 1985. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [solid copy with only light shelfwear, but offsetting to endpapers and age-toning and very light vertical streaking to the pages (due to the use of inferior paper stock); the jacket is slightly scrunched with a tiny tear at the top of the spine, bumped at lower left corner of front panel, some wrinkling to the front panel and light soiling to the rear panel]. Four essays (including "John Gardner: The Writer as Teacher"); fifty poems; and seven stories. The latter group: "Distance"; "The Lie"; "The Cabin"; "Harry's Death"; "The Pheasant"; "Where Is Everyone?"; and "So Much Water So Close to Home." .