Thorough Many Soils (Signed Presentation Copy)

Offered is a signed and inscribed first edition, first printing, of "Thorough Many Soils," a book of poetry by John Fandel published in 1950 by Bard Review out of Venice, Florida. A left-stapled softcover with outer dust jacket, measuring 5-3/8" by 8-1/2" and containing 36 internal pages. Poems include "Be Constant Heart"; "Song in September"; "Clothed in Radiance Shines From South"; "Oblivion Not To Be Hired"; "The Broken Bird"; "Until the Ninth Hour"; "Winterset"; "At Spring"; "The Place of Earth"; "An Adam Song"; many others. With a single sheet "Bard Review" listing future proposed and to-be-published titles laid in. Signed and inscribed by the poet to first inside page: "To Joyce With Best Wishes, John, June 1950." Condition: covers age-yellowed; outer dust jacket detached but present and shows chips along detached edges; very small, very light waterstain to front of dust jacket. Interior pages lightly age-yellowed but in otherwise excellent condition.