Birthday Book of the Day: a poet laureate's collected works, first edition, inscribed.

For his 77th birthday today Henry Bemis Books offers Robert Pinsky’s  Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection, in an autographed first edition:

The Figured Wheel: New & Collected Poems 1966-1996 (Farrar Straus Giroux 1996, 1st ed.) ISBN 0-374-15493-7. Former US poet laureate’s collected works. Inscribed on the title page. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition, autographed. HBB price: $60.

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