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Before It Vanishes (Inscribed); A Packet for Professor Pagels
by Pack, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: David R. Godine, 1989. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 8vo. 85 pp. A volume of poems. A fine hardbound copy with cloth spine in very good dustwrapper, sunned at spine. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the author and dated in year of publication.
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- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15677
- Title
- Before It Vanishes (Inscribed); A Packet for Professor Pagels
- Author
- Pack, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- David R. Godine
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- Poetry, Inscribed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry Books;
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Avon, Connecticut
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- Dustwrapper
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- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- Inscribed
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