The Gulf

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970 First printing of the stated first American edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Signed and dated by Derek Walcott directly on the front-free endpaper. Book in fine condition; a hint of tanning to spine, else dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with chips to the top and bottom of the spine.. 8vo, 71pp; cloth-backed boards. Signed and dated by Walcott on the front flyleaf in 1984.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Collectible - Good. First edition copy. Collectible - Good. 1st U.S. (poems) [Noonday 389]

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1970).. First US trade paperback printing.. 111 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Inked ownership signature of editor William Abrahams on the front free endpaper. Includes all of his 1969 collection, THE GULF AND OTHER POEMS as well as selections from THE CASTAWAY AND OTHER POEMS (Cape, 1965).

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1969. First British edition and first printing. Hardcover. 71 pages. A review copy with laid in slip. An early collection of poems from the 1992 Nobel Prize winner. A very good copy with some slight foxing to the page edges and in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear and some… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1969. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First UK edition of the author's third collection of poems. A fine copy in clipped dustwrapper, else fine. Striking dustwrapper design of a lush jungle scene.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1974 Paperback re-issue of hardbound 1st edn. pp71 in stiff card covers. VG with slightest shelf wear to loer edge & corners.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First American Edition. Slim Octavo. xi + 109 pp. Stated First American Printing. Selections from the Castaway precede the Gulf, previously published @1969 in the UK. 5.75" x 8.5" blue cloth boards, silver spine letters, in unclipped illustrated DJ with acetate protector .