AS WE KNOW

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with a few small marks to the bottom of the front endpaper (offsetting from a label on the dustwrapper flap), are otherwise clean throughout and without previous owners' marks. Complete with the fine original dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears.

Signed by John Ashbery in blue ink on the title page. The poet's eighth major collection, and his second from Carcanet ('Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror' was published in 1977). The collection includes 47 short lyrical pieces and the long poem, 'Litany'.