Da Vinci’s Bicycle
by Guy Davenport
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
-
Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
8vo, aqua cloth with silver titles, 185pp. Unclipped dust jacket (12.95). First Edition. An ex-library copy with stamping to top edge of text block, tape residue marks to endpapers and boards, else unmarked. Dust jacket shows toning, creasing and rubbing to panels. Firmly bound; a nice crisp copy in mylar. A collection of ten stories; Davenport's scarcest trade title.
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Details
- Seller
- Heaven-Haven Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- B-149
- Title
- Da Vinci’s Bicycle
- Author
- Guy Davenport
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Kentuckiana;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Heaven-Haven Books
Biblio member since 2024
Bellevue, Kentucky
About Heaven-Haven Books
Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.
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