Note-Books of Night

San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1942. First Trade Edition. Octavo (24.5cm); oatmeal cloth-covered boards, with decorative paper title labels on spine and front cover; glassine dustwrapper; dustjacket; 112pp. Light shelf-soil, tanning to edges of boards and upper edge of textblock, off-setting to pastedowns; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50), tanned, with front flap disconnected at fold (but with item), and tiny tears, chips, and creases to extremities; Good. Glassine dustjacket complete, tanned, with crease to rear flap. Collection of verse, includes "Night in May", "Provincetown, 1936", "Some Americans Still in Spain to Some Stalinists Still in America", and "Word-Fetishism". [84653].