Author: SIMPSON, Louis
Title: The Arrivistes. Poems 1940-1949
Description: New York, The Fine Editions Press, [1949]. First Edition. Jamaican poet's first book, published in an edition of only 500 copies in printed cream wraps. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper "For Gertrude Clayton/with best wishes/Louis Simpson/Dec. 13, 1949. Much less soiling to covers than usual; tiny piece lacking out of upper rear corner. Near Fine with minor edgewear to the original tissue dustwrapper .

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