B60 POET’S CHOICE 1962

POET’S | CHOICE | [fancy swelled rule] | EDITED BY | Paul Engle and Joseph Langland | [publisher’s emblem] | THE DIAL PRESS NEW YORK 1962

Collation: [1] –[8]16 [9]4 [10] –[11]16, 164 leaves.

2 pp. blank; p.[i] POET’S | CHOICE | [fancy swelled rule]; p.[ii] blank; p.[iii] title-page; p.[iv] copyright, rights reservation, LC card, designer’s and manufacturer’s notices and acknowledgements; pp.v–vii acknowledgements; p.[viii] blank; pp.ix–xi table of contents; p.[xii] blank; pp.xiii–xvii [flush left:] THE POET ON HIS POEM; p.[xviii] blank; p.[xix] POET’S | CHOICE | [fancy swelled rule]; p.[xx] blank; pp.1–291 text; p.[292] blank; pp.293–303 BRIEF BIOGRAPHIES; pp.[304]–[306]blank.

23.1 × 15.5 cm. Bulk: 2.0/2.7 cm. White wove paper; top edges only trimmed. Rust wove endpapers. Bound in maroon cloth; front and back blank; spine stamped in gold: [decorative device] | [down spine:] POET’S CHOICE |[decorative device] | [remainder upright:] EDITED BY | ENGLE | AND | LANGLAND [with a fancy G] | [publisher’s emblem] | DIAL

Price: $6.95. Number of copies: 10,000. Published 29 October 1962 in cream dust-jacket printed in rust, gold and black.

Note: Graves’s contribution is a comment (pp.29–30) on ‘The Troll’s Nosegay’, also printed here.