TOTTERING STATE: Selected Poems 1963-1987.

First edition, first printing. Paperback original. Signed by the author on a bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover. Original card wrappers illustrated by Anthony Davies. A clean, near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the spine without any creasing. A touch rubbed to folds and spine tips, with some light creasing to corners, the pages with light marginal toning owing to the low-quality paper stock. Priced £5.95 to the rear panel.

Signed by the author in black ink on an illustrated bookplate affixed to the verso of the front cover. Raworth's compact selection from twenty-five years of work. "Single-handedly, Tom Raworth has restored the value of quickness to English poetry. His is the alacrity of Shelley, of Byron, of Gerard Manley Hopkins, reinforced to meet a modern urgency. It is poetry of sensation, intelligence flashing down the spillway, faster than thought." (Bill Berkson)