Lives and Deaths of the Poets and Non-Poets
by Van Duyn, Mona
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
St. Louis, MO, 1991. Stapled Wraps. Very Good. 4to. 28 pp. A photo of a Chagall painting, subject of one of the poems, is mounted on blank page as a frontispiece, and the last poem tipped in on last page (as issued). Inscribed by the poet "For ---- & ---- with love - this oddity - a mixture of poems, occasional verses, and elegies - for friends" and signed "Mona." Head and heel of spine and corners lightly bumped, upper corners a little more noticeably; light handling and edgewear to wrappers. Previous owners have laid in two Van Duyn poems clipped from the New Yorker.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Crane's Bill Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012403
- Title
- Lives and Deaths of the Poets and Non-Poets
- Author
- Van Duyn, Mona
- Format/Binding
- Stapled Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Place of Publication
- St. Louis, MO
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 4to
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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Returnable if not as described.
About the Seller
Crane's Bill Books
Biblio member since 2005
Albuquerque, New Mexico
About Crane's Bill Books
An online source for out-of-print, unusual and hard-to-find books on a wide range of subjects. Owned and operated by Jeffrey Lee, a longtime bookseller in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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