Slow Coins [signed] [first edition]

[Washington, DC]: Three Continents Press, [1981]. First Edition, Wrapper Issue. Octavo; publisher's glossy grey pictorial card wrappers; [10],206pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and soil from handling, else Very Good. Substantial poetry collection by the Alabama-born author, inscribed and signed inside upper cover: "To Joe Johnson with respect and honor -- 1987 / Julia Fields." Unsigned note in the same hand and ink laid in, "I hoped to have sent you the hard cover. Too broke! (Smile). Are you going to review my old book? Pub 1981 -- plagiarist's paradise!" We also locate three brief manuscript annotations and underlining throughout by the author, presumably for the recipient's benefit.