Great Balls of Fire
by PADGETT, Ron
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. First edition. 86pp. Decorative blue cloth boards and matching dust jacket, designed by Joe Brainard. Moderate rubbing and shelf-wear to boards; some foxing to textblock top at spine. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with light sunning to spine, some sticker-lift abrasions and residue to top of front panel. Very good in like jacket. Signed, dated (1984), and inscribed by Padgett on half-title to Literary scholar and poet Vince Clemente (1932-2020). Also laid-in is a photocopied press release for a Guillame Apollinaire book translated by Padgett, with his dated autograph text recommending the book as one of interest.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dividing Line Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002618
- Title
- Great Balls of Fire
- Author
- PADGETT, Ron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1969
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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