Binding: Cloth
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st US Edition; First Printing
Size: 8vo; [vi], 57, [1] pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979, New York
ISBN: 0374269742

[Book #34203]

First American Edition/First Printing in Fine condition with a penciled annotation on page 20, presumably from poet Mark Strand, in alike dust-jacket. Signed and inscribed by Derek Walcott to friend and Pulitzer prize winning poet Mark Strand: "Derek, with love, and thanks". A handsome association copy;

A collection of poetry from the winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. Departing for a magical flight of fancy through the Caribbean. The title poem, "The Star-Apple Kingdom", deals with establishing a social democracy in Jamaica; Signed by Author