DEREK WALCOTT. — The Gulf and Other Poems.
Jonathan Cape, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). Slim 8vo. 71pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Some spotting to the top edge, and just a trace of further spotting to the fore edge. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped double-spread pictorial dust wrapper featuring a design by Leigh Taylor, lightly toned at the spine panel and with a touch of wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Thirty-seven poems including his fourteen-line poem 'Homage to Edward Thomas'. Winner of the 1969 Cholmondeley Award., Very Good, Very Good