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Green with beasts / W.S. Merwin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC9 M5599 956g
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927-2019.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Ditchling, Sussex : Printed in England by The Ditchling Press Ltd.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Rupert Hart-Davis, Soho Square, 1956.
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- "The poems in 'Green with Beasts,' his third book, were written between 1953 and 1955. Though this is Merwin's first volume to be published in England, his poems have appeared frequently in English magazines and have been read on the BBC Third Programme."--Dust-jacket.
- With yellow wraparound band "Poetry Book Society Choice."
- Pale green boards with red and black lettering on spine and front cover.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dust-jacket retained.
- Cited in:
- First printings of Amer. authors, I, p. 255
- OCLC:
- 1925390
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