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Collected Verse from 1929 On
by Nash, Ogden
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. Moderate foxing to dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival cover.; First UK Edition. xxxii, 508, [2 (blank)] pages. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Top page edges dyed green. Page dimensions: 211 x 132mm. "Now that Ogden Nash has attained such prominence in the affections of a large public on both sides of the Atlantic a collected edition of his works will be warmly welcomed, especially as the author has chosen the poems he would like to see survive himself. The selection has been made from the thousand or more which span the thirty years of his creative poetry." - from dust-jacket blurb. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 25973
- Title
- Collected Verse from 1929 On
- Author
- Nash, Ogden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- J. M. Dent & Sons
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1961)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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