Condition Continued: The dust jacket is in quite solid shape. It too is very clean. The spine is toned. There is some fairly light wear at the spine ends, one tiny tear off the front top edge.  There is also some light, smooth rubbing around the corners. The flaps are in excellent condition, perfectly clean, no conspicuous wear. The jacket is NOT price-clipped, not clipped at all. It will be fitted with a protective cover after the photos are scanned. 

Columbia University Press, New York, 1977. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Written by Joel Conarroe. First Edition (SD, Columbia University Press=SD). Signed and inscribed on the title page ( '12/1/77, For Martha and Phil, with much affection, Joel' ). Part of the series Columbia Introductions to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, John Unterecker, General Editor. ISBN: 0231038119. 

'While best known as a champion of other writers' works, Mr. Conarroe proved more than capable with a pen himself. He published analyses of the poetry of William Carlos Williams and John Berryman and edited multiple poetry anthologies, including 'Six American Poets,' a widely circulated 1993 survey of works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and others. 

That anthology found unlikely fame in the 1990s, when Joseph Brodsky, then the nation's poet laureate, spearheaded a program to include a copy alongside the Gideons Bible in thousands of hotel and motel rooms around the country. 

'I told Joel,' a Ms. Volk said, 'that it was the most stolen book in the history of publishing.'  '