Finding the islands

First hardcover printing. Yellow cloth over boards with gilt spine titles. Touch of very light foxing beginning on top-edge and fore-edge, else Fine. Tight, square, and bright. In a complete, Near Fine DJ. This copy has been inscribed on the first page after the Contents by Merwin to fellow poet William Heyen, and includes one of the book's three-line poems in holograph. Additionally, laid-in is a xerox copy of a letter to Heyen, which includes Merwin's blurb that was used on the rear cover of Heyen's The Rope, published 5 years later in 2003. Heyen went on to publish To William Merwin, a collection of poems. Fantastic association copy between these two highly original American poets.