Selected Poems. (INSCRIBED)

Harper & Row, New York, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First American Edition (first printing) - there was no equivalent UK edition. This copy inscribed by the author: "J.R. / With all good wishes / Cecil". The recipient of the inscription was Bishop John Robinson, author and scholar, noted amongst other things for his testimony at the "Lady Chatterley's Lover" censorship trail (a book which "every Christian should read"). 8vo. 160pp. Decorated paper-covered boards. Top-edge, endpapers and half-title light spotted. A lovely crisp copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at head of spine panel and with a single short closed tear. A foreword by the author ("Casting back over my verse of the last forty years is an uncomfortable experience") precedes sixty-one poems selected from the following collections: 'Transitional Poem' (1929), 'From Feathers to Iron' (1931), 'The Magnetic Mountain' (1933), 'A Time to Dance' (1935), 'Overtures to Death' (1938), 'Word Over All' (1943), 'Poems 1943-1947' (1948), 'An Italian Visit' (1953), 'Pegasus and Other Poems' (1957), 'Requiem for the Living' (1955) and 'The Room' (1965). Ticket for Day-Lewis' 1972 St. Martin-in-the-Fields Memorial Service laid-in..