First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed by the author to the painter R. B. Kitaj on the title page, "For Kitaj with love John June 24, '98". Ashbery has written on Kitaj's work, and Kitaj was one of the eight artists to contribute work to the landmark 1984 Arion Press edition of Ashbery's Self-Portrait In a Convex Mirror.
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