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Under Stars
by Gallagher, Tess (signed)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0915308193
- ISBN 13
- 9780915308194
- Seller
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La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. An association copy, inscribed on the title page: "For Dick Day and Janyce Neiman--I depended on Yeat's ghost for some of these. Ghosts are like stars. They will shine on anything. I notice a discerning patch of stars in your yard, too. With you now, under them -- Tess, Aug. 16, 1979. On the way to Tucson." Richard Cortez Day was a professor of English and creative writing at Humboldt State University in Northern California and was Raymond Carver's mentor there, thus the connection. Presumably Carver was with Gallagher and Day when she signed this book. Gallagher's second full-length collection; the title poem is available by way of the Poetry Foundation. Though known especially for her partnership with Carver and her stewardship of his legacy, Gallagher is an important Northwest poet and the winner of a Guggenheim and NEA Award among others. A very good book with sunning to top of blue cloth boards; in a very good jacket with sunning/light browning to spine, flap folds, and top edge of front panel. A couple small perforations to rear flap fold near base.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1225
- Title
- Under Stars
- Author
- Gallagher, Tess (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0915308193
- ISBN 13
- 9780915308194
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Place of Publication
- Port Townsend, WA
- Date Published
- 1978
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Rural Hours
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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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