[Author's First Book] Permit Me Voyage
by Agee, James; Archibald MacLeish (Foreword)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Just About Fine/At Least Very Good
- Seller
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Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Just About Fine/At Least Very Good. Green cloth over boards, title, publication year and series # stamped in black onto spine, 8vo (9-1/4 inches tall), pp. 59, (i) Publisher's Note. Volume with toning to text and slight fade to upper edge of cloth. Price-intact DJ has a slightly darkened spine panel, light wear and shallow chips to the top edge. Pulitzer Prize winning poet Richard Eberhart's copy of Agee's first book (with his penciled signature on the ffep and occasional light pencil notation to poems within). Permit Me Voyage is the 33rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets and contains an early collection of Agee's poetry.
Details
- Bookseller
- Harropian Books, IOBA (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1788
- Title
- [Author's First Book] Permit Me Voyage
- Author
- Agee, James; Archibald MacLeish (Foreword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Just About Fine
- Jacket Condition
- At Least Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1934
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern First Editions; Signed Books;
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About the Seller
Harropian Books, IOBA
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Nelson, British Columbia
About Harropian Books, IOBA
Harropian Books is an online bookseller offering a diverse selection of antiquarian, collectible, rare and out of print items. Our focus is on the interesting & unusual, covering all fields. ***** We are a member of the IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) and have attended the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (2011), Rare Book School in Virginia (2014 - Developing Collections ; 2016 - The History of Printed Book Illustration in the West), London Rare Book School (2021 - The History of Maps and Mapping) and Gwain Weaver Art Conservation (2019 - Care and Identification of Photographs).
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Cloth
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- 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
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