THE OLD BACHELOR
AND OTHER POEMS
Donald Justice

Miami, FL: Pandanus Press, 1951
1st edition, limited (1/240) original plain blue hand tied paperwraps, with printed paper label.

Specially signed "Donald Justice" on the title page immediately below his printed name, and with two corrections by Justice to the title poem using the same pen.  The author's scarce first book.  The text includes eight poems, and is issued as "Chapbooks by THE EYE / Number Two" designed, set by hand and printed by Preston H. Dettman using Centaur and Weiss types. One inch closed tear to rear free end page, and tiny chip to edge of printed paper label, else only minimal wear.

Order Number 5854
$3,900.00