COLLINS, Billy (b. 1941). Questions About Angels. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.

8vo. Original cloth; dust jacket; cloth folding case. Provenance: John Updike (presentation inscription, autograph note signed, see below).

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY COLLINS TO JOHN UPDIKE: "To John Updike with long-standing admiration. Billy Collins Nov 1994." [Laid in:] UPDIKE, John. Autograph sentiment signed ("John Updike"). 1 page, 8vo, in ink, on a yellow lined sheet, comprising 12 lines with 2 emendations or corrections.

A manuscript copy of JOHN UPDIKE'S BLURB FOR COLLINS'S LATER WORK THE ART OF DROWNING: "Lovely poems—lovely in a way almost nobody's since [Theodore] Roethke's are. Limpid, gently and consistently startling, more serious than they seem, they describe all the worlds that are and were and some others besides."

[With:] COLLINS. Pokerface. Los Angeles: Kenmore Press, 1977. LIMITED EDITION, number 81 of 400 copies SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- COLLINS. Video Poems. Long Beach, CA: Applezaba Press, 1980. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- COLLINS. The Apple that Astonished Paris. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 1988. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- COLLINS. The Art of Drowning. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- COLLINS. Picnic, Lightning. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION, hardcover issue, SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- COLLINS. Picnic, Lightning. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION, softcover issue, SIGNED BY COLLINS. -- Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all in original publisher's bindings, all housed in matching folding cases, condition generally fine.

Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

COLLINS, Billy (b. 1941). Questions About Angels. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.

COLLINS, Billy (b. 1941). Questions About Angels. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1991.