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TEN POEMS by Dove, Rita - 1977

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TEN POEMS by Dove, Rita - 1977

TEN POEMS

by Dove, Rita

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Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. Number 126 of only 200 copies of the former Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning POET'S FIRST BOOK. Number four in Penumbra's "Manila Series." Unprinted, brown, string-tied paperwraps; housed in publisher's printed envelope. This copy INSCRIBED, "For Jeff, with warm wishes from one book lover to another - Rita Dove / 10 Feb 90." Fine in fine envelope with just minor creasing to the flap. Scarce in envelope and signed or inscribed. INSCRIBED "FROM ONE BOOK LOVER TO ANOTHER
  • Bookseller Quill & Brush US (US)
  • Book Condition Used
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  • Publisher Penumbra Press
  • Place of Publication Lisbon, Iowa
  • Date Published 1977

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Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. 20pp. Original stitched unprinted brown wrappers. Fine. Lacking the original illustrated manilla envelope that the book was issued in. Author's rare first book, this is copy number 133 limited to "approximately" 200 copies. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. Issued as Number Four in the press's Manila Series.
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Lisbon, Iowa: Penumbra Press, 1977. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Square octavo. 20pp. Original stitched unprinted brown wrappers. Fine in fine original illustrated manilla envelope. Author's rare first book, this is copy number 84 limited to "approximately" 200 copies. Dove won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1987. Issued as Number Four in the press's Manila Series.
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Lisbon, IA: The Penumbra Press, 1977. First edition. First edition. Signed by Rita Dove, inscribed to former owner and dated December 7, 2017. 20pp. Bound in publisher's unprinted sewn wrappers, housed in illustrated envelope. No. 143 of "approximately 200 copies." Fine in Very Good envelope with some dampstaining and wear along flap. The first chapbook by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (the second African American person to win the award), also a former U.S. Poet Laureate. The fourth volume in the publisher's envelope-housed Mania Series. Especially scarce signed.
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