Acts of Attention: The Poems of D.H. Lawrence.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press (1972). First edition. 327 pp w/index. Near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket. Laid in is an approx 200 word tls from Gilbert to a noted author and scholar commenting on ‘open form,’ the recent poems of Denise Levertov, presenting this book as a gift, and inviting the receipient to a ‘combined book party… and driveway restoration party.’