Sequence ... sometimes metaphysical. With wood engravings by John Roy

Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, 1963. Edition limited to 330 copies (copies I-LX are signed by Roethke and the engraver); this copy unnumbered; 8vo, pp. [32]; 14 full-page wood engravings by Roy; original russet paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 13: I was printing at this time in my basement and not making any money ... I loved Theodore Roethke's poetry. We corresponded and he finally agreed to let me do this sequence." Roethke died before the book was completed. (Inventory #: 69653)