SILENCE IN THE SNOWY FIELDS

First edition, first printing. Hardcover issue. Publisher's original grey cloth with blue titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents, a little toned to the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and marked dustwrapper that has two short closed tears and some toning to the spine and panel edges. Not price-clipped ($3.50 to the upper front flap).

The poet's first collection, which signalled a new beginning in American poetry and it immediately put Bly on the literary map. The first printing was issued simultaneously in softcover and hardcover, the hardcover is quite uncommon.