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American Primitive: Poems
by Oliver, Mary
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0316650021
- ISBN 13
- 9780316650021
- Seller
-
Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press /Atlantic-Little, Brown Books, 1983 First printing of the first edition, in original dust jacket. Faint rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else book in fine condition; with light wear to spine ends / corners and light rubbing to back fold, else fine.
Oliver was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for American Primitive.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022670
- Title
- American Primitive: Poems
- Author
- Oliver, Mary
- Illustrator
- Molly Malone Cook (Author's Photo); Lisa Paquette
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0316650021
- ISBN 13
- 9780316650021
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Month Press /Atlantic-Little, Brown Books
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Poetry, Literature, Pulitzer Prize, American Academy of Arts & Letters Award, a Lannan Literary Award, the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Prize and Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
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Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
Glossary
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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