The Set-Up [Limited Edition, Signed]

New York: Covici-Friede, 1928. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 275 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.231. Octavo (25cm); patterned paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; [viii],[2],3-184,[2]pp; illus. Vintage bookplate to front pastedown, some sunning and soil to backstrip, edges worn, upper right corner of front board bumped, with a faint semi-circular stain to upper margins of first 36pp; Very Good, lacking the publisher's slipcase. March's long poem about a washed-up African-American boxer, written after the publication of his best-known poem, The Wild Party. Basis for Robert Wise's 1949 film noir of the same name, starring Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, and George Tobias. The Dark Page, Vol.I, pp.186-187.n 82799. (Inventory #: 82799)