first edition
1988 · Fayetteville
by Collins, Billy
Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 1988. First edition. Navy linen cloth, white lettering in dust jacket; tall 8vo. 61 pp. The simultaneously issued cloth edition of the poet's third (and first regularly published) volume. Inscribed "To __ __, All my best" signed in full by Collins and dated "Dec.1989". Uncommon, especially signed. A fine copy, seemingly never read, in a very near fine dust jacket, with one short (1/4 in.) closed tear on the back panel (in a removable protective archival cover).
(Inventory #: 66924)