Multitudes, Multitudes [Inscribed and Signed with Typed Letter Signed]

New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [4],69pp. Very light sunning to wrapper margins, else a Fine example. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper verso, "For Kay Masson [?] / Clearly a kindred spirit, with grateful esteem -- Amy Clampitt / 30 March, 1988." Together with a one-paged typed letter with the same date and recipient, evidently a former Grinnell classmate who had gotten in touch with Clampitt after discovering her latest poetry collection "Archaic Figure" (1987). "[T]o hear that one's work has given pleasure, especially to a friend from one's early days, is just about the most satisfying thing that can happen to anybody who happens to have published a book.I wish too that I had been better acquainted with one so clearly on a similar wavelength. The truth is that I was too un-grown-up, unconfident and confused to be close to anyone during my time at Grinnell." Clampitt then offers Kay a copy of this, her first book, famously not published until the poet was in her fifties.…