Theodore Roethke / WORDS FOR THE WIND SIGNED 1st Edition 1958

WORDS FOR THE WIND (SIGNED). Author: Roethke, Theodore Title: WORDS FOR THE WIND (SIGNED) Publication: Garden City: Doubleday & Co. 1958 Edition: Stated First Edition. Black, cloth-covered boards, with gilt lettering to spine.

Very light sunning/foldover to top of spine. Front hinge professionally (and almost invisibly) guarded. Publisher's green topstain to head.

Dustjacket shows sunning to spine, and very light chipping to top and bottom of spine and flaps. The collected Verse of Theodore Roethke. Poems include The Waking - the collection that won the 1953 Pulitzer prize - and thirty-eight poems never before published in book form in America. The author's signature is informal, and features his first name only ("Ted"), as the book was presented to a friend of the author as a Christmas gift in 1958.

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