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Amherst: Shanachie Press, 1980. Limited Edition. Fine binding. Stephen Riley. Signed. Copy XIX of XXV copies. Printed by the Shanachie Press and signed by James Tate and Stephen Riley. With 10 engravings and letter-pressed text laid into publisher issued box with title label on the cover; each engraving signed and numbered by Riley. Signed by Tate and Riley on the colophon.~~A beautiful collaboration, coupling James Tate's luminous poem with Stephen Riley's evocative etchings (Riley sadly died several years later). Fine binding.