Signed by the author on the front free endpaper, inscribed to "Antonin Bartusek" (czech poet, translator, art historian, muzeologist), on "August 4, 1964". Hardcover in dust jacket, 87 pages, very good and nice condition. - Ashbery’s first published book - Selected by W. H. Auden, who also contributed the introduction - Considered a foundational work of the postwar American poetic avant-garde - A key early example of the New York School aesthetic Some Trees is the debut poetry collection of John Ashbery, a central figure of the New York School and one of the most celebrated American poets of the 20th century. Selected by W. H. Auden as the winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1955, the book was first published in 1956 and marked Ashbery’s formal entrance into the American literary canon. The poems in Some Trees are notable for their formal elegance, intellectual playfulness, and subtle emotional depth. While more accessible than Ashbery’s later, more experimental work, they already hint at his signature themes: the instability of meaning, the fluidity of time, and the layering of consciousness.