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North Winter
by Carruth, Hayden
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
Iowa City, IA: Prairie Press. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1964. First Printing. Hardcover. Original off-white pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth boards. Dust jacket is in fair condition with heavy wear and toning to spine; title is worn off and top and bottom are chipped. Dust jacket also has dampstains on front and has a Mylar cover. Blue boards with title gilt on spine are in very good condition; light wear to corners and top and bottom of spine. Presentation copy, inscribed by author on first endpaper. Leaves are unpaginated. Carruth, a winner of the National Book Award for Poetry, presents a poem which is "developed in a dynamic relationship to the cycle of winter..." Includes color illustrations created by Dale Ballantyne, and the body type and display of the book were hand set. ; Color Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 013672
- Title
- North Winter
- Author
- Carruth, Hayden
- Illustrator
- Ballantyne, Dale
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Fair dust jacket
- Edition
- First Printing
- Publisher
- Prairie Press
- Place of Publication
- Iowa City, IA
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Poetry, HAYDEN Carruth
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Gilt
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- Fair
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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....
- Inscribed
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- Jacket
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