CHARLES OLSON: The Allegory of a Poet's Life by Tom Clark. New York: W.W. Norton Company, (1991). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement and first printing number code sequence 1 through 0 to the copyright page. Clark, a highly acclaimed poet in his own right, draws on extensive private journals, letters, and revealing testimony from family and friends to paint this definitive portrait of Olson's life, political career, poetry writing career, leading the 1960s poetic counterculture, etc. Thin black remainder mark to the lower page edges, else very nearly fine, firm and square, in black half-linen over gray-cream marble boards with gilt embossed titles and decorations to the spine; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a hint of age-toning; original $27.95 printed price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 403 pages; notes; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!