THINGS OF THIS WORLD

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1956. First Edition. Pale blue-green cloth in dustjacket; small 8vo. 50 pp. Inscribed twice on the front free end paper on the title page by the poet: first to "Stuart [Wright?] in 1981, then to __ another well-known small press publisher/printer of poetry in 1995. Both signed "Dick Wilbur". The poet's third collection, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award. Includes arguably Wilbur's most famous poem: "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World". Top edge toned else about Fine in a rubbed at extremities Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket. It does not have the ubiquitous NBA winner sticker, thus the earliest published state of the dustjacket.