Description
The first edition The Quarry: New Poems by Richard Eberhart, signed by the author to a colleague at Dartmouth.
Octavo, 114pp. Auburn cloth, title stamped on spine. The first printing, with the same date on the title page and copyright page. Appears unread. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $4.75 on the front flap, bright illustrations, a fine example.
Signed and dated by the author on the half-title to Ruby Eames Daggett from the Dartmouth Bookstore, who secured Eberhart the “latest avant-garde book” while he was a student.
Inscription reads: “For Ruby Daggett / Love, Dick / at the Dartmouth Bookstore / Hanover, N.H. April 30, 1969.” Also inscribed on page 70 above the poem titled Ruby Daggett, “Ruby, I am glad you like this poem. Dick.”
The volume appeared after Eberhart’s tenure as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and shortly before the publication of Selected Poems, 1930-1965, which received the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
