NY: Harper & Row, 1973. First edition. 172pp.; indexes. Black boards, purple half-cloth; silver spine lettering; dust jacket. Mild bumping & browning at spine ends. A few spots of soiling to top of textblock. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with light edge-wear and scuffing. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Signed by Brodsky to title page.
Signed copy of this selection of verse by the Russian émigré poet, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1987 and in 1991 served as United States Poet Laureate. Translated from the Russian by George L. Kline. Foreword by W. H. Auden.
