Adult Bookstore [plus typed poem signed, Love for a Hand]

Random House, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the FFEP: "To John Titsworth, Thanks for the clippings of the poets' meeting and for your good wishes. Sincerely, Karl Shapiro, Davis California, 9/12/78." Accompanying the book is a typed poem, "Love for a Hand" (1952), on a letter-sized sheet, signed and inscribed: "For John Titsworth, Karl Shapiro, Davis, California, January 14, 1976." These items signed two years apart to the same collector. The book is fine in a fine jacket with a yellow "sale price"sticker on top right corner of its front jacket panel. The typed poem is near fine on account of some slim sunning/fading to upper edge; it has two horizontal folds, as if for mailing, and the watermark of an eagle emblem. The poems begins, "Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white / And soon down ladder of reflected light / The sleepers climb in silence ." Unique item, nice pairing. Shapiro won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945.