Shapiro, Karl — White-Haired Lover

New York, Random House, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the publisher's blurb, "A celebratory cycle of twenty-nine love poems. In these new poems, highly personal and frankly erotic, Karl Shapiro returns to the traditional verse form that he temporarily abandoned in The Bourgeois Poet." All but one poem here is newly collected. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. 37 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,