The Apple That Astonished Paris.
“YOU TRIP OVER A WORD WHILE CARRYING A TRAY OF VOCABULARY OUT TO THE POOL ONLY TO DISCOVER THAT BROKEN GLASS IS A GOOD TOPIC”: First Edition of Billy Collins' The Apple That Astonished Paris; Inscribed by Him
The Apple That Astonished Paris.
COLLINS, Billy.
$1,500.00
Item Number: 12017
Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988.
First edition of this early collection of poems by award-winning poet. Octavo, original blue cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by Billy Collins on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
In 1988 the University of Arkansas Press published Billy Collins’s The Apple That Astonished Paris, his "first real book of poems," as Collins describes it in a new, delightful preface written expressly for this new printing to help celebrate both the Press’s twenty-fifth anniversary and this book, one of the Press’s all-time best sellers. This collection includes some of Collins’s most anthologized poems, including "Introduction to Poetry," "Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House," and "Advice to Writers."
