First edition, limited issue; "one of fiteen copies specially bound in half leather" [82]pp. marbled endpapers. "Designed by John Kristensen, set in Hermann Zapf's Palatino and Michelangelo types, and printed in an edition of 150 copies on Mohawk Letterpress Text at Firefly Press, Somerville, Massachusetts." An elusive publication in this half-leather issue. Contains the first appearance of poems by Seamus Heaney ("A Wave from the Distance") [Brandes & Durkan B127b (limited edition), noting: "the poem is an early version of 'A Sofa in the Forties'"] and Anne Tyler; original essays by Maxine Kumin and William Heyen, and with tributes by Kay Boyle, Gwendolyn Brooks, D. Grumbach, M. L'Engle, M. Piercy, S. Spender, R. Wilbur et al. The entire edition was prepared primarily for private distribution to the contributors and to friends of the author. A fine copy [issued without printed dust jacket (in this half leather issue)]. An elusive publication in this half-leather issue. A fine copy as