THE STAR-APPLE KINGDOM

First US edition, first printing and first hardcover edition. Original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in the Romare Bearden illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities lightly rubbed. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owners' stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is a little faded at the spine. Not price clipped ($10 on the upper front flap).

The author's tenth poetry collection. Derek Walcott received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992.