Field Guide (inscribed uncorrected galley, association copy with broadside)
New Haven: Yale Univ Pr, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. The scarce uncorrected galleys, quarto in comb-bound saffron wraps, and an association copy, inscribed on the title page: "To Larry and Meryl -- good friends -- Bob Hass." The recipient is poet and printer Larry Rafferty and his wife, the poet Meryl Natchez. Winner of the Yale Younger Award, the preeminent poetry prize for a poet under 40, this book launched Hass's impressive and important career: He's gone on to win the Pulitzer and National Book Award for Time and Materials and served as US Poet Laureate. With a long foreword by Stanley Kunitz, the judge at the time for the series ("forword" is hand corrected on the title page, the only other mark in the volume). Unpaginated and printed only on the recto. A near fine copy with lightest wear to corners. In a a simple tape-bound, homemade cardboard slip case that is likely the work of a previous bookseller, with a previous seller's description taped to it. Included also is a signed broadside featuring Hass's poem "Stanzas for a Sierra Morning," which Rafferty printed via his hit & run press. The broadside is one of 25 signed copies. Hass and the recipients grew to know each other at the Community of Writers annual conference in the Olympic Valley (formerly Squaw Valley) near Lake Tahoe, of which Hass has been a longtime participant and champion. A wonderful association copy and scarce item. Item #2140
ISBN: 0300016506
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