Winged By Their Own Need
by Vajda, Miklos (Editor)
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
- Good +
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About This Item
Mallorca : The New Seizin Press , 1988. Hardback, blue cloth with the facsimile of a Graves' manuscript in silves on the front board, no slipcase. Bound by Carmen Garcia-Gutierrez. 76pp. Illustrations by Michael Kane. No. 138 of a limited edition of only 300 copies. Signed by the printer, binder and artist to colophon. 1st edition 1988. A collection of the poems that won the annual Hugarian poetry contest that Graves sponsored with royalties he received for the Hungarian translations of his work - funds which were non-converitble and as a consequence had to be spent in Hungary. The editor has supplied an introduction, giving a history of Graves' Hungarian prize. Handsomeley produced at the New Seizin Press, an effort by Tomas Graves, son of Robert Graves, to resurrect the Seizin Press that his father and Laura Riding founded in 1927. Foxing to edges and towards inner hinge of first and last few pages. Private ownership. (h12). Limited Edition.. Hard Cover. Good +. Illus. by Kane, Michael .
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- Bookseller
- Besleys Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H12SLVGRY158
- Title
- Winged By Their Own Need
- Author
- Vajda, Miklos (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Kane, Michael
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Edition
- Limited Edition.
- Publisher
- The New Seizin Press
- Place of Publication
- Mallorca
- Date Published
- 1988
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