Collected Poems [Signed and Inscribed]

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Very Good/Very Good +. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1971. Stated First Edition. Octavo (24cm); 215pp. Publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with $7.95 price intact; boards bound in charcoal cloth with gilt and silver stamping to spine; mustard yellow endsheets. Dust jacket gently bumped; spine slightly toned. Jacket rear panel toned with some soiling; tears forming at top edge. Boards bumped but otherwise clean. Binding sound. Textblock toned; endsheets and interior pages clean. Heavily annotated by former owner in pencil. An overall Very Good copy of this Pulitzer-winning collection. Signed and inscribed by Wright on full title page.
Inscription reads “Dear Michael, Up with true criticism! — Jim Wright.”.