The man among the seals

Iowa City: The Stone Wall Press, 1969. Edition limited to 260 copies, 8vo, pp. 55, [1]; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine in a near fine original glassine dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This is Johnson's first book. Berger, Printing & the Mind of Merker, 33: "When I first read Denis Johnson's poems, I thought, 'Of course I'm going to print them.' There are some wonderful poems here. He has since become an established novelist as well as a war correspondent in Iraq and will probably be a major literary figure as he goes on. (Inventory #: 63017)