£120
FIRST EDITION, NO. 7 OF 100 COPIES ON HAND-MADE PAPER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, pp. 227, [1]. Partially-unopened in lilac boards backed in vellum, glassine dustjacket, spine and front board lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, in lilac card slipcase. Slipcase a little rubbed to extremities, dustjacket a touch chipped to head of spine panel. Numbered and signed by Creeley to limitation statement to verso of title-page.
A signed, limited edition of the first British collected poems of Creeley, which preceded the trade issue, and which preserves its scarce and fragile glassine wrapper. It collects his 1962 volume 'For Love' and several poems from his limited-edition 1965 American collection 'Words', along with a selection that would be included in that volume's first trade edition in 1967. Two poems, 'The Measure' and 'Fancy' make their first appearances in print here.
