AUTUMN TO AUTUMN AND SELECTED POEMS 1953-1976

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Wrappers issue. Publisher's original card covers. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little rubbing at the corners and edges of the faded spine edges. Small surface scuff to the rear cover. The contents are clean throughout.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For John / yet another souvenir\ of Lahti / - Al / 18 June 1987". The recipient is John Guest, for nearly three decades a distinguished editor at Longmans and Penguin. The poet, novelist, essayist, and critic's third collection of poetry, issued simultaneously in hardback and paperback (as here).