Collected Earlier Poems (the complete texts of: The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows and The Venetian Vespers)
by Hecht, Anthony
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 0394585054
- ISBN 13
- 9780394585055
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo (9.5"x6"). 272pp. Lilac cloth-covered boards with blindstamped and giltstamped titles, purple topstain. Narrow, sunfaded tailedges. Lightly foxed textblock edges. Signed by Hecht and inscribed, "For Heather McHugh, with cordial good wishes," in green ink to half title. Association copy: belonged to the poet Heather McHugh. Typographic dj. covered in protective mylar: light tone, some ink ghosting to text, NOT price-clipped ($22.95).
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Books & News (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3979
- Title
- Collected Earlier Poems (the complete texts of: The Hard Hours, Millions of Strange Shadows and The Venetian Vespers)
- Author
- Hecht, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first printing
- ISBN 10
- 0394585054
- ISBN 13
- 9780394585055
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Half Title
- The blank front page which appears just prior to the title page, and typically contains only the title of the book, although, at...
- Edges
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- Foxed
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- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.