SELF-PORTRAIT IN A CONVEX MIRROR

First edition, first printing [first state]. Publisher's original blue cloth and green paper boards with green titles to the spine, in the Jacqueline Schuman designed dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents, with the pencil signature of Marge Clouts (teacher, reviewer and wife of the South African born poet Sydney Clouts) to the front endpaper, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbbed dustwrapper that has a single closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel and a surface scuff to the edge. Not price-clipped ($5.95 to the top corner of the front flap).

American poet John Ashbery's Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award winning collection. The first edition was published 15 May 1975 in an edition of 3,500 copies.