95 Poems [Ninety Five]

Bookseller

Better Read Than Dead (US)

Bookseller's Inventory #

925

Title

95 Poems [Ninety Five]

Author

E.E. Cummings

Illustrator

Jacket design by Janet Halverson

Format/Binding

Black cloth spine, lettered in brown, backing brown paper covered boards with decorative "95" printed to both. In pictorial jack

Book Condition

Used - Very Good, tight square binding, small stain to front board. Previous owner inscription and decorative card pasted into front fr

Jacket Condition

Good only jacket, soiled, edgeworn and lightly sunned to spine and front, some shallow chips, creases, closed tears. Dampstained

Quantity Available

1

Edition

First Edition

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace and Company

Place of Publication

New York

Date Published

1958

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