The Old Bachelor and Other Poems (Signed First Edition).
[Miami, FL]: Pandanus Press, 1951. First edition. Softcover. Justice's first book printed in an edition of 240 copies by Preston H. Dettman. A slim collection of nine poems that precedes his first regularly published book "The Summer Anniversaries." Justice went on to win the 1980 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry A very good copy in blue wrappers with paper label affixed to the front cover and with laid in folded sheets with some slight faint foxing but lacking the single thread that holds the pages to the wrappers. Signed by Justice on the title page and with his minor holograph correction to one poem. Housed in a custom three quarter leather clamshell box.
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