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First Printing, with year on title page. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. A Very Good copy in dark steel blue cloth stamped in silver, in a Very Good grey-blue and red dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 54pp. Offsetting to front endpaper from clipping. Dustwrapper with a few tiny nicks and scuffs. Bishop's first book. This copy bears an undated INSCRIPTION by Bishop to a third party "with best wishes . . . [and] . . . I'm sorry I've taken so long at it" and SIGNED by her, on the top of the free front endpaper. Signed copies of Bishop's books are quite uncommon. Q15779.

Elizabeth Bishop's first published book, 'North & South', containing poems focused on travel, landscapes, and identity.