Description
The first edition, first printing of The Vortex: Poems by John Redwood Anderson.
Octavo, 176pp. Cream cloth, red paper label on spine. The first impression, with no other printings noted. Offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean. Solid text block. In the publisher’s first issue dust jacket, no retail price noted, touch of wear at head of the spine, a near fine example.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Marie Louise / affectionately from / Redwood / October, 1960.”
A collection of 38 poems by Anderson, the English poet and playwright whose works include Babel, Walls and Hedges, Standing Waters, and The Curlew Cries.
