In the Winter of Cities

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1956. Very Good/Very Good. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. Octavo (25 cm); 117pp. Boards quarter bound in printed paper and black cloth with gilt stamping to spine, wrapped in publisher's clipped dust jacket. Jacket generally soiled with scuffing and rubbing at all extremities and water staining and toning to spine. Margins creased and toned. Previous owner tape repair to verso tail of spine. Board corners and spine ends bumped and shelfworn with toning to top margin and gentle scuffing and dust soiling overall. Page edges and endsheets toned, the latter at gutter. Pages clean. A Very Good copy in like jacket of Tennessee Williams's first collection of poetry.