In a Green Night

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition of the first major collection by the 1992 Nobel laureate, preceded by three volumes of verse and several plays only published in the West Indies. 80pp. Green paper marbled boards over white cloth backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. A beautiful copy, fine in a fine jacket with a couple of minor age spots… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed by Derek Walcott twice: warm inscription to former owner on front free endpaper, "To Ruth [MacKenzie] / thanks for a very calm and beautiful afternoon at the National Gallery / Henry James Waldo Thoreau Emerson Poe / [signed] Derek /" and signature on half title dated half title… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 79 pages. The first collection of poems by Walcott to be printed by a major publisher. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. A near fine copy with a small vintage bookstore sticker to the front pastedown and in a very good plus dust… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape. London. 1962. First edition.. pp. (x), 11-79, (i). Price-clipped dust wrapper over paper boards, the wrapper has been damped and the green colouring has faintly bled onto the boards beneath, this has also affected the fore-edge of the rear free end-paper and the lower corner margins of the last half-dozen leaves, the wrapper is slightly worn… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Clean copy, sound binding.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good +/none. Uncorrected Proof of Walcott's first book of poems following several plays published only in the Carribbean. Very scarce. Very good plus in light green wraps, slight lean, tiny amount of wear at lower corners. Scarce in any condition.

Jonathan Cape, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover with green dust cover. Clean text, sound binding.

London: Jonathan Cape,, 1962. Hearts learn to die well that have died before Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. In A Green Night was the author's first collection of poems to be published outside of the Caribbean. Walcott went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992 and is best known for his Omeros (1990), an… Read more about this item

Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1969-12-01. Paperback. Good.