Description
For sale is a Fine paperback edition, first printing of What the Twilight Says by Derek Walcott. First Paperback Edition stated, 1999 Farrar, Straus & Giroux. First Printing with no subsequent printing.
The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on an un-cracked spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no creases, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners.
The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition, with no marks, inscriptions, or any other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.
This collection forms a volume of remarkable elegance, concision, and brilliance. It includes Walcott’s moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, his Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Les Murray, and Ted Hughes, and of prose writers such as V. S. Naipaul and Patrick Chamoiseau.
Ships promptly in manila Envelope with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
