Into the Stone and Other Poems. In Poets of Today VII [first edition, review copy] by Dickey, James; Paris Leary and Jon Swan - 1960

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Selected and edited by John Hall Wheelock. Fine in near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Previously unpublished poetry by the three authors, most notably James Dickey, his first book.

New York: Scribner, 1960. First edition. Decorated cloth in dust jacket. Inscribed to publisher and bibliographer Stuart Wright with Dickey's signature flourish. Regarded as Dickey's first book, though the annual series included "books" of three poets. A very good copy in a toned and lightly worn at edges very good dust jacket (one short teat at rear spine fold. Bruccoli A1.1 (In removable protective archival covers.). Exceptional association: Wright published over 300 books and broadsides of mostly Southern Writers including Dickey at his Palaemon Press; his author collections are in a number of Southern institutions. Dickey's signature is somewhat common, but this is a uncommon book in collectible condition, and scarce signed, certainly as an association copy.