Selected Poems
London: Chatto & Windus, 1967.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop on the title page, inscribed to British artist Kit Barker and his wife, Ilse. Their collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton. Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the world of literature, she is now perhaps best known as the influential American poet Elizabeth Bishop's 'Dear Ilse,' a reference to their mutual passion for letter-writing which nurtured a friendship begun at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in New York State, in 1950." 117 pp. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with gilt lettering. Light dust-soiling and toning to cloth, else Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket, slightly toned. One of 1,200 copies printed, with no equivalent edition published in America. MacMahon A7. Item #140946112
Price: $3,500