Square 8vo. First edition, one of 2000 copies in wrappers for the American market. [32] pp. Portrait of Neruda by Hans Ehrmann; fine in original hammer-shaped die-cut wrappers by Jim Dine, with facsimile print of a signed note in English - in Neruda's handwriting - to Ted Hughes, on back cover. Wrappers by Rochelle Kraut. Light staining/foxing to edges of wrappers, especially verso, else fine.

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the half title page.