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Poems 1914-1934
by READ, Herbert
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition of this collection. Bound with sheets of the English edition, published the same year, in London, by Faber and Faber. Octavo. 168pp. Cloth spine, decorative paper-covered boards, publisher's printed paper spine label. Light wear and dust soiling on top edge, tips of corners lightly bumped, else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket; jacket is moderately worn and tanned, spine is browned and nicked, else very good. Author's introductory note states, "Ten years have passed since the publication of the first edition of these collected poems; in this new edition I have... remove[d] a few poems... and added about thirty poems... [and] made slight revisions...
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 521213
- Title
- Poems 1914-1934
- Author
- READ, Herbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Poetry, EnglishLiterature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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