Item #421 Heart’s Needle. W. D. Snodgrass, William De Witt.
Heart’s Needle.
Heart’s Needle.
Association copy

Heart’s Needle.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Frist edition. Presentation copy. In original cloth with dust jacket. 62 p. The book is in fine condition. / Dust jacket slightly worn. Snodgrass' autograph on rear dust jacket, his address in Detroit in red pen.

First edition of the Snodgrass' first book. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960 for this collection of poems.

Inscribed to Iván Boldizsár (1912–1988) the Hungarian poet and writer, president of the Hungarian PEN Club from 1970 and President of the International PEN Club in 1984 and one of the first people from the former Soviet bloc who received Honorary Degree in the United States.

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Price: €300.00