Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
by Warren, Robert Penn
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, lettering stamped in silver on spine; dust jacket printed in red, with wrap-around band. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; dent across top edge of front board; some off-setting and sunning to text block. Dust jacket a little creased along top edges; small chips and closed tears at extremities; sunned along spine. A nice reading copy.
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- Bookseller
- Sanctuary Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D4687
- Title
- Promises: Poems, 1954-1956
- Author
- Warren, Robert Penn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Eyre & Spottiswoode
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Spine
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- Reading Copy
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- Sunned
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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