To the Sincere Reader.

NY: Wittenborn and Company, 1969. First edition. 17 loose 11 x 8 1/2 sheets housed in a paper portfolio with printed label. Internal pages and colophon sheet are a bit toned, else very near fine. The portfolio is very good only with several tears and bumps. Poem by Waldrop, design by Nelson Howe. One of 100 numbered copies printed at Burning Deck. INSCRIBED by Waldrop, “an unbound proof-copy / + it is for Walt Odets.”