NY, Grove, (1957). The first major collection of poems by the legendary writer who, together with John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch, was instrumental in defining the "New York school" of poetry in the Fifties, an enormously fertile era in the arts. The New York poets, who became heroes to a later generation in the Sixties and Seventies, created and legitimized a kind of writing free from the cramping constraints of literary strictures, a freedom seized upon by the beat generation and its successors. This is one of 75 copies of the limited edition of O'Hara's book, this copy having been inscribed by O'Hara: "For Chuck, darkly, pastorally, Frank." Spine sunned; a near fine copy in an edge-sunned publisher's plain cardboard slipcase which has been professionally repaired. [#026363] SOLD