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The Power Bright and Shining: Images of My Country
by McKUEN, Rod
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0671413929
- ISBN 13
- 9780671413927
- Seller
-
Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Cheval Books/Simon and Schuster, 1980. Hardcover. 8vo. Cream cloth spine and blue decorated paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 168pp. Fine/near fine. Tight, attractive first edition of these patriotic poems, with an enormous author signature and inscription in blue marker filling the half-titlw page: "Rod McKuen / 1 October, 1980 / For Big Jim / with love / and then / some. / From his friend / Rod.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37700
- Title
- The Power Bright and Shining: Images of My Country
- Author
- McKUEN, Rod
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0671413929
- ISBN 13
- 9780671413927
- Publisher
- Cheval Books/Simon and Schuster
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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About the Seller
Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Galena, Illinois
About Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Tight
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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