New York: KNOPF. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 0679450955 . Signed and inscribed first edition, first printing. Book and dust jacket in fine condition; dust jacket is not price-clipped. Recipient of the Nobel Prize for poetry in 1968.; Book; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; Signed by Author(s) .

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Anthony Hecht's first book of poems, A Summoning of Stones, appeared in 1954. It was followed by The Hard Hours , which received the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1968. Millions of Strange Shadows was published in 1977, and The Venetian Vespers in 1979. The last three titles, together with the author's selection from the first book was published in 1990 as Collected Earlier Poems , together with a new book, The Transparent Man. He is the author also of a book of critical essays, , 1986; The Hidden Law , 1993, his study of the poetry of W.H. Auden; and On the Laws of the Poetic Art , 1995, the Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, delivered at the National Gallery of Art in Washington in 1992. He has taught widely, most recently as University Professor in the Graduate School of Georgetown University, from which he has recently retired. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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Bookseller: Back of Beyond Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: MAFAAH-413
Title: Flight Among The Tombs
Author: Hecht, Anthony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0679450955
ISBN 13: 9780679450955
Publisher: KNOPF
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: 0679450955

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