ASHBERY JOHN Some Trees

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ASHBERY, JOHN. Some Trees. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, spine titles gilt; unclipped dust-jacket, spine panel tanned, two 5mm closed tears at top edge. Fine copy in near-fine jacket. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956

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first edition, presentation copy inscribed: "for David Nielsen / John Ashbery / KGB [almost certainly referencing the New York City bar of the same name] 10/18/99." Ex-collection Donald M. Allen with his erased but still visible pencil signature on the front endpaper, editor of the influential anthology, The New American Poetry 1945-1960, that featured various post-war non-academic schools of poetry in the United States.