Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas by Angelou, Maya - 1976

London: The Cresset Press, 1946 First printing of the first edition. cloth boards with gilt-lettered title, 45pp., in tan dust jacket with the publisher's original price on front flap intact. Hint of bookplate ghost to front endpaper, else book in fine condition; in dust jacket with minimal signs of age or wear.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981 First printing of the stated first edition, review copy with the publisher's material laid in. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1986 First printing of the first edition, with Spanish/English text. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"

American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our… Read More

New York: Scribner Poetry / Simon & Schuster, 2005 First printing of the first edition. Signed by David Lehman directly on the title page; additionally signed at their page of contribution by John Ashbery, Stephen Dunn, Galway Kinnell, and D. Nurkse. Light shallow crimping at spine ends, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: The Cresset Press, 1946 First printing of the first edition. cloth boards with gilt-lettered title, 45pp., in tan dust jacket with the publisher's original price on front flap intact. Hint of bookplate ghost to front endpaper, else book in fine condition; in dust jacket with minimal signs of age or wear.

New York: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, 1972 First edition, stated first printing. Spanish and English text. Light shelf wear and a faint vertical crease to inside jacket flap, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

Denver: Alan Swallow, 1964 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam"

American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C.

Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.)
"Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our… Read More

Chicago: The David Company, 1989 Second printing of the first edition, stapled wrappers. Presentation copy signed to Greg Gatenby, Canadian historian, writer, and host of Toronto's festival of authors. also signed by Gatenby, dated 1989. Book in fine condition.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1978 First printing of the stated first edition, preceded by the British edition. Spine ends gently crimped, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short tear to bottom back spine fold, a tiny tear to upper front cover, tip of front corner rubbed, and light crimping/wear to spine ends, else fine.