The Open Sea and Other Poems
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1958.
Price: $750.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some slight fading. Author's scarce third book of poetry. Inscribed by Meredith to another poet with a full page poem "Orpheus in the Underworld" dated in 1961 handwritten on the front fly, and with a correction by Meredith in the text of another poem in the text.
Item #418233
William Meredith
birth name: William Morris Meredith, Jr.
born: 1/9/1919
died: 5/30/2007
Biography
American poet who was a Pulitzer Prize for Partial Accounts and a National Book Award for Effort at Speechmore