New and Selected Poems (Signed First Edition)
by Justice, Donald; [Pulitzer Prize]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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WILLIAMSBURG, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING
with first edition stated on copyright page, etc.
SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Very Good+ in Very Good+ Dust Jacket. Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with only very light wear; price not clipped ($25.00).
Scarce signed first edition.
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Synopsis
Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925. A graduate of The University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa. His books include New and Selected Poems ; A Donald Justice Reader (1991); The Sunset Maker (1987), a collection of poems, stories and a memoir; Selected Poems (1979), for which he won the Pulitzer Prize; Departures (1973); Night Light (1967); and The Summer Anniversaries (1959), which received the Academy's Lamont Poetry Selection. He has held teaching positions at Syracuse University, The University of California at Irvine, Princeton University, The University of Virginia, and The University of Iowa, and from 1982 until his retirement in 1992, he taught at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He won the Bollingen Prize in Poetry in 1991 and has received grants in poetry from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was elected a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets in 1997. He lives with his wife, Jean Ross, in Iowa City.
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- Bookseller
- LaCelle Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17748
- Title
- New and Selected Poems (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- Justice, Donald; [Pulitzer Prize]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- New York: Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1995
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