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Miami, Florida: Pandanus Press, 1951. First Edition. Pamphlet. Very good. 8vo (21 x 15cm).  [6], 10, [4].  Blue cloth covers with fading to spine and wear to fore edge. One of 240 copies, hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. The first book by one of America's premier poets.

Miami: Pandanus Press, 1951. First edition. [8], 10, [6] pp. Hand-sewn blue wrappers, printed title label on front cover. One of 240 copies, hand-set and printed by Preston H. Dettman. Some edgewear and surface wear to covers, very minor old staining, contents clean. The very rare first publication by an important American poet, preceding his first regularly published book The Summer Anniversaries by nine years. Justice earned his PhD at Iowa in 1954 and was long associated with the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Despite the limitation, quite scarce; OCLC locates eleven copies.

[Miami, FL]: Pandanus Press, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Justice's first book printed in an edition of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. A slim collection of nine poems that precedes his first regularly published book "The Summer Anniversaries." Justice went on to win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A very good copy in blue wrappers with paper label affixed to the front cover and with laid in folded sheets with some slight faint foxing but lacking the single thread that holds the pages to the wrappers. Signed by Justice on the title page and with his minor holograph correction to one poem. Housed in a custom three quarter leather clamshell box.

[Miami]: Pandanus Press, 1951. First Edition. wraps. Light wrinkling along yapped edges. Fine. Plain stitched blue wraps with a printed paper label at the bottom front cover. Designed, set by hand, and printed in an impression of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. Very scarce first book by one of America's premier poets, preceding his first regularly published book, THE SUMMER ANNIVERSARIES, by nine years. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author close to publication in green ink "for Bill Wight, with good wishes--" and INSCRIBED and SIGNED again in 1990 to another person.