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Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
by Simic, Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1590171705
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171707
- Seller
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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About This Item
The New York Review of Books, 2006. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; the full cloth cover shows a few faint dust smudges near the spine and gentle flaking of the gilt titles at front and spine; the vertical wrap around the rear board has an abrasion at the middle left, pale but not affecting the text; otherwise excellent. 82pp.; 12mo.
Synopsis
CHARLES SIMIC is a poet, essayist, and translator. He teaches American literature and creative writing at the University of New Hampshire. He has published five books of essays, a memoir, numerous translations, and sixteen collections of poetry, the most recent of which is The Voice at 3:00 AM . Among the many literary awards Simic has received are a MacArthur Fellowship and the Pulitzer Prize. He lives in New Hampshire.
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- Bookseller
- The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 79517
- Title
- Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell
- Author
- Simic, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 1590171705
- ISBN 13
- 9781590171707
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
Biblio member since 2005
Iowa City, Iowa
About The Haunted Bookshop, LLC
The Haunted Bookshop is an open shop with over 40,000 quality used, out-of-print, and antiquarian titles for students, scholars, collectors, artists, families and children. The store has been in business for over 35 years, now in a historic home near downtown Iowa City. Our open hours are 10-8 daily.
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- Cloth
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- Crisp
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Jacket
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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