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The Triumph of Achilles (association copy with holograph poem)
by Gluck, Louise (signed)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0880010819
- ISBN 13
- 9780880010818
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
NY: The Ecco Press, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/Near fine. Association copy, inscribed opposite the title page by Gluck to the poet, critic, and biographer Vince Clemente with a holograph version of her poem "The Embrace" (which leads the book's second section) following the inscription and running onto the title page. For its flavor, the finish: "above the trees, the city rose in a kind of splendor / as all that is wild comes to the surface." Also signed in full above her printed name on the title page. Clemente was a professor at SUNY and his papers are held at Rochester University. A very good copy with a mildly slant spine and a remainder mark to bottom text block face. The rear free endpaper is slightly askew and there are also a few very faint spots of foxing to gray spine cloth at the top edge. One small streak of binder glue present on front board's spine cloth. In a very near fine jacket. Though an imperfect copy, the holograph poem makes this book a unique find from Gluck, the late Nobel Prize winner.
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- Bookseller
- Rural Hours
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1006
- Title
- The Triumph of Achilles (association copy with holograph poem)
- Author
- Gluck, Louise (signed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0880010819
- ISBN 13
- 9780880010818
- Publisher
- The Ecco Press
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2019
- Keywords
- Nobel Prize, Holograph, Lyric, Poetry
Terms of Sale
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Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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