Hardcover. 8vo. 190 pp. Teal boards, purple lettering to spine, purple publisher's stamp to front. Fine but for two small ink marks to the upper and lower page edges. Dj is price-clipped, code "0470" on front flap, one tear to upper front spine edge, a few stray marks, else in very good condition. 

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.

Good Morning, Midnight, published in 1939, deals with a protagonist that has returned to Paris but cannot seem to escape the desperation in her life and chases the loneliness and depression with alcohol and sleeping pills, adrift in the city of love. The title takes its name from Good Morning -- Midnight, a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Cover designer Jacqueline Schuman, who here dazzles with a silkscreen-inspired riff on St. Veronica's Sudarium, is also noted for her wallpaper-inspired covers for E. P. Dutton's Barbara Pym series and the Deco-influenced Colette titles published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux's Noonday imprint.