[Diane Ackerman, poet, to the playwright Christopher Fry, with a presentation copy of her first book.] Typed Letter Signed praising his work, accompanying an inscribed copy of her poetry collection 'The Planets | A Cosmic Pastoral'.

ONE: TLS. Ithaca, NY; 20 September 1976. 1p, 4to. In good condition, lightly aged. The letter begins: 'Dear Christopher Fry, | I so relish climbing the castellations of your wit, to where I feel energized and deliriously long-sighted, or running higgledy-piggledy with your thoughts, at times as if with the bulls of Pamplona, I simply cannot resist telling you so any longer.' According to her 'internal calculations' she owes him 'at least a galaxy for the delight your plays have given me; perhaps you'd accept these few planets instead'. TWO: First edition in dustwrapper of the author's first book, 'The Planets | A Cosmic Pastoral' (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1976). 159pp, 8vo. Frontispiece and illustrations. Dedicatory poem to Carl Sagan. Notes and glossary at rear. In attractive quarter-binding with light-blue boards, and purple cloth spine stamped with title in gilt and blue. Full number line on reverse of title. In very good condition, lightly aged, in like dustwrapper. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: 'For Christopher Fry, | in whose work | I rejoice. | Diane Ackerman | 9/20/76'. The blurb begins: 'This unique and wonderful book of poems introduces not only a splendid new poet but a whole new adventure in poetry.'