Journey to a Known Place. A Poem de CARRUTH, Hayden - 1961

Norfolk, CN (USA): New Directions, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. A POEM BY HAYDEN CARRUTH: JOURNEY TO A KNOWN PLACE (#118 / 300) 29 pages, hardcover, no dust jacket. Some sun fading to the cover. Inside in fine condition.

New Directions. 1961. First edition. Limited Edition of 300. Hard cover. Very good. No dust jacket. light shelfwear, a bit of fading to the cover, includes the often missing insert previous owner name in very light pencil, #30 of 300.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1961. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Wide hardbound volume issued without dustwrapper. A fine press poetry book hand set in Romanee type and printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker. Number 275 of three hundred copies. Publisher's promotional slip laid in. Faint toning to cover edges.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1961. First edition. Cloth-backed gray boards; small 4to. 29 pp. One of 300 copies printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker at Iowa City. With enclosed letter TLs on Carruth's Vermont Crow's Mark Press stationary dated 1968, answering a librarian's question re: another book as well as this volume which they are seeking. Letter folded, but fine in the original envelope. [The letter only is signed.] The book's covers are horizontally creased, end papers offset from glue, a couple of fox spots on foreedge, else very good lacking tissue dust jacket. A scarce and lovely book, the author's third.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1961. Edition limited to 300 copies (this, no. 12) printed by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker; 4to, pp. 29, [3]; 4 linoleum cuts in brown, green, yellow, and red representing earth, water, air and fire; original black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. American Institute of Graphic Arts 50 Books of the Year Award. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 9: "This was the last book I helped Harry to print. J [James - his nickname is 'J'] Laughlin of New Directions has often had small presses do limited editions for him, and this is one he commissioned Harry to do, who in turn asked me to help with it."

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. Small quarto. A small stain on the first couple of leaves, very near fine. One of 300 numbered copies printed on Hayle paper by Harry Duncan and Kim Merker. Prospectus laid in. This copy Inscribed by Carolyn Kizer to her fellow poet Leonie Adams: "for my dear Leonie with love at Christmas, Carolyn 1962."