(San Francisco), (Kayak), (1969). An early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Signed by the author. Designed and with illustrations by Mel Fowler, and printed by George Hitchcock, whose Kayak Press was one of the influential small presses in the late Sixties and early Seventies, publishing such writers as Tate and Raymond Carver when they were young and relatively unknown. Spine tanned, with several very small spots to covers; near fine in wrappers. Tate went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, among other awards. [#010993] SOLD