View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
by Szymborska, Wislawa
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1995. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Hardcover/ DJ (has price $20.00); both Fine+ to New condition. Stated First Edition, B"" printing. DJ is bright, clean, glossy, unmarred. NO chips, frays, tears or spine discolor. Yellow board binding w/ yellow cloth spine is tight, bright, clean & square w/ little to no wear. All silver spine lettering crisp & intact. Text is tight, white, clean, unmarked. NO remainder mark, owner names, etc.: NOT ex library. Excellent copy.
Synopsis
From one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets, a collection remarkable for its graceful lyricism. With acute irony tempered by a generous curiosity, Szymborska documents life’s improbability as well as its transient beauty to capture the wonder of existence. Preface by Mark Strand. Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh, winners of the PEN Translation Prize.
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- Bookseller
- EDM Book Loft (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 413
- Title
- View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
- Author
- Szymborska, Wislawa
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
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