Exiles & Marriages by HALL, Donald - 1955

New York: Viking Press, 1955. First edition. Boards. Good in Poor Dust Jacket. 8vo, 118 pp. Poet's first collection, 1955 Lamont Poetry Selection. Covers dull, wear at edes and extremities, foxing to covers, page edges and endpapers, endpapers browned. Jacket sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, foxed, chipped, with some insect damage.

Viking, 1955. First edition. Close to fine in tan striped boards as issued with clean bright text throughout. No dustjacket. Former owner's tiny book label 1" x 2-1/2" affixed to inside boards, which does not affect the text. Lovely all around.

New York: The Viking Press. Very Good. 1955. Hardcover. First Edition, 118 pages, patterned paper covered boards, peach spine with blue printing, a very good copy in a slightly toned dj .

NY: Viking, 1955. Striped boards and tan cloth back. Near Fine/VG dj (price-clipped, lightly waterstained, very light edgewear). 8vo. First edition with Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets slip tipped to front free endpaper. Author's 4th book, the first published by a major publisher.

Viking, 1955. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition of Hall's first book, the 1955 Lamont Poetry Selection. Faint toning to the jacket's spine else fine. Compliments cards from The Academy of American Poets are laid in.

New York: Viking Press, 1955. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Corners slightly bumped else about fine in slightly spine-toned very good or better with a small, light stain on the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

The Viking Press, New York, 1955. 8vo. 118 pp. VG+/VG+. Signed by Hall on the title page. Light age-toning to edges of unclipped dust jacket which is in a clear protective sleeve. Binding is strong. Text block is clean and tight. Text is pristine throughout. No writing or markings of any kind.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm); vertically-striped paper-covered boards and light pink cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in blue on spine; dustjacket; [x],118pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "November 21, 1955 / in the hope that this bay be both poetry and modern / Donald Hall." A few tiny tears at crown, contemporary owners name and tiny label of The Grolier Book Shop on front endpaper; Near Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn, spine-sunned and dust-soiled, with some losses to spine ends, and several small nicks and tears; Very Good. Early work by the National Book Award nominee and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.

New York: Viking, 1955. First edition. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 118 pp. w/ index. Awarded the Lamont Prize for best first book (he had published three previous books, including two Fantasy Press editions in GB.) Inscribed by the poet "For Roy, Visiting my first books some thirty five years later!" and signed in full and dated 21 April, 1990. Lamont notice tipped to front fly, else about fine, the endpapers bright; in a complete lightly worn, faded at extremities about very good dust jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1955. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth-backed decorative paper boards. Fine copy in near very good dust jacket, with slight darkening to spine and edges. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.