Sailing or Drowning
by Curnow, Allen
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Wellington: The Progressive Publishing Society. Very Good- with no dust jacket. [1944]. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate foxing to covers. Spine rubbed. Lacking the dust-jacket. Provenance: woodcut ex-libris bookplate of Roy Still. ; No date [1944]. 28 page. Papered boards with blue lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 213 x 139mm. Printed at the Caxton Press. New Zealand poetry. [Reference: Bagnall C1911; McLaren "Caxton Press" 671] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22155
- Title
- Sailing or Drowning
- Author
- Curnow, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Progressive Publishing Society
- Place of Publication
- Wellington
- Date Published
- [1944]
- Keywords
- Poetry New Zealand
Terms of Sale
Renaissance Books
Any book not as described may be returned within 14 days of receipt for a full refund.
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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