Lament and Psalm
Crescent City, FL: New Athenaeum Press, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Slim octavo (2cm); publisher's red printed card wrappers; [6],7-21,[3]pp. Light wear, sunning to spine and wrapper edges, with a few small spots to inner rear cover; contents clean; Very Good. Second book of poems by the North Carolina poet, released the same year as his debut, I Am the Snakehandler, four years prior to editing and publishing his mimeographed poetry journal Kauri. Uncommon; OCLC notes 11 holdings, with none in commerce. See Powell, William S. "North Carolina Bibliography 1960-61, North Carolina Historical Review, V.XXIX, No.2 (Spring, 1962). 90336.
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