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CCCLXXIV Poems
by Patchen, Kenneth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Slight lean, otherwise fine in the original unprinted pale blue dust jacket, sunned and with a few stains to the spine and a sma
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
(New York: Padell, 1948. First edition thus. Slight lean, otherwise fine in the original unprinted pale blue dust jacket, sunned and with a few stains to the spine and a small chip at the base.. 8vo, gray cloth. A single volume, combining the complete texts First Will & Testament , The Dark Kingdom, and Cloth of the Tempest, each separately paginated. With a colophon label affixed to the front pastedown, noting that edition consisted of 126 numbered copies signed by Patchen, as here.
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- Bookseller
- Locus Solus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 200688
- Title
- CCCLXXIV Poems
- Author
- Patchen, Kenneth
- Book Condition
- Used - Slight lean, otherwise fine in the original unprinted pale blue dust jacket, sunned and with a few stains to the spine and a sma
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Padell
- Place of Publication
- (New York
- Date Published
- 1948
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Colophon
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- Sunned
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- Jacket
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