Geography Iii Bishop, Elizabeth Association Copies,Poetry,Signed,Women Writers

First edition, first printing. Signed by Elizabeth Bishop and warmly inscribed, "For Isle and Kit - I always seem to be signing my books years later for you- anyway - lots of love ^ again! - Elizabeth." Kit Barker, the inscribee, was a British artist. Of Ilse Barker, The Guardian wrote in her obituary, "In the world of literature, she is now perhaps best known as the influential American poet Elizabeth Bishop's 'Dear Ilse,' a reference to their mutual passion for letter-writing which nurtured a friendship begun at Yaddo, an artists' retreat in New York State, in 1950." [xii], 50 pp. Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light edge wear; top edge dust soiled with moderate foxing to all edges. Pastedowns are irregularly toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear. An acclaimed final work by the American poet with many of her best-known poems such as "One Art," "In the Waiting Room," "The Moose," and "Crusoe in England." A nice association copy between Bishop and British couple the Barkers (whose collection of correspondence with Bishop is held at Princeton).