Description: In a Green Night: Poems 1948-1960 by Derek Walcott Signed first edition in dust jacket London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition, first impression. Signed by Derek Walcott twice: warm inscription to former owner on front free endpaper, "To Ruth [MacKenzie] / thanks for a very calm and beautiful afternoon at the National Gallery / Henry James Waldo Thoreau Emerson Poe / [signed] Derek /" and signature on half title dated half title dated Oct 21 68. Former owner's name written above signature on front free endpaper. 79 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with tiny stain to fore edge, bookstore stamp of The Voice Bookshop in St. Lucia, Very Good dust jacket with rubbed edges, unclipped. The Nobel laureate's first poetry collection to be published outside of the Caribbean, rare signed.
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Author: Walcott, Derek
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Year Printed: 1962
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Signed
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Original/Facsimile: Original
