NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition. 86pp. Decorative blue cloth boards and matching dust jacket, designed by Joe Brainard. Moderate rubbing and shelf-wear to boards; some foxing to textblock top at spine. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with light sunning to spine, some sticker-lift abrasions and residue to top of front panel. Very good in like jacket. Signed, dated (1984), and inscribed by Padgett on half-title to Literary scholar and poet Vince Clemente (1932-2020). Also laid-in is a photocopied press release for a Guillame Apollinaire book translated by Padgett, with his dated autograph text recommending the book as one of interest.
