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Travels
by Merwin, W. S
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679752773
- ISBN 13
- 9780679752776
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Knopf, 1994. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed on the second blank to poet Bruce Berlind and his wife: "For Bruce and JoAnn, love from Bill, Nov 1996." Uncommon signed in this first paperback edition. Bruce Berlind was an old friend of Merwin's, as they graduated from Princeton within a year of each other and both studied with John Berryman there. Berlind was a longtime English professor at Colgate and ran its visiting writer series. There's a good story about how Merwin and Hayden Carruth dined and drank wine together at Berlind's house while Carruth played hooky from the National Book Award ceremony. All hungover, Berlind and Merwin drove over to Carruth's place the next morning to tell him he had in fact won the award.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1648184934652
- Title
- Travels
- Author
- Merwin, W. S
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679752773
- ISBN 13
- 9780679752776
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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