THE FOLDING CLIFFS: A NARRATIVE OF 19th CENTURY HAWAII de Merwin, W. S - 1998

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [16], 331, [5] pp. First edition, signed and inscribed by Merwin. In publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. A bright copy with only trivial softening to the spine ends; clean throughout; dust jacket is sharp; while it is not price clipped, there is a bookseller's ticket placed over the price on the front flap. A remarkable novel in verse by one of the most important American poets of the second half of the century; here signed and inscribed by him, on the preliminary blank and signed and dated on the title page.