Cap of Darkness.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 117 pp. Top edge foxed, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Wakoski with an original holograph poem tipped-in after the title page. On the title page, Wakoski has made a half page inscription to Clint Colby, but then x’ed it out, noted “Author’s mistake” and then opposite inked a full-page inscription, dated (27 April 1980) to John [Martin]. In part, “you have always been an inspiration.”