copyright 1978; autographed by the author on half-title page; book number 271 of 700 numbered copies; The Swan Press publishers, Tacoma, Washington; softbound, stapled pamphlet/chapbook; very good as-new condition.
 
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"Partially shielded by the bridge abutment, the woman stared into the windy night.  Sleet hid the farther shore and, except for the melancholy and distant lowing of a tug and the rush of wheels far overhead, she could have fancied herself alone upon a barren seacoast..."