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THE COMPLETE POEMS OF MARIANNE MOORE
by Moore, Marianne
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fair
- Seller
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Eugene, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. New York: The Macmillan Company / Viking Press, 1967. First edition. 9 1/5 x 6 1/4 inches: pp. xiv, 305. Gilt lettering on spine of black boards. With notes, indices.
First Edition point, "flowers", pg. 65, third line from the bottom, misspelled (flowrrs). A book club edition dust jacket has been subbed for the original dust jacket. Sunning to jacket spine. Chips and tears to edges and folds of faded jacket. Light shelf wear to board edges. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Published simultaneously in Canada. With selected translations from The Fables of La Fontaine. All 120 poems Ms. Moore is willing to preserve are assembled in this book. The saints and baseball players are here, the buffaloes and basilisks, moral triumphs and mechanical marvels - charmed into art with sagacity, wit and affection."
First Edition point, "flowers", pg. 65, third line from the bottom, misspelled (flowrrs). A book club edition dust jacket has been subbed for the original dust jacket. Sunning to jacket spine. Chips and tears to edges and folds of faded jacket. Light shelf wear to board edges. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Text is unmarked. Binding tight. Published simultaneously in Canada. With selected translations from The Fables of La Fontaine. All 120 poems Ms. Moore is willing to preserve are assembled in this book. The saints and baseball players are here, the buffaloes and basilisks, moral triumphs and mechanical marvels - charmed into art with sagacity, wit and affection."
Synopsis
Marianne Moore (1887 – 1972) was an American Modernist poet who was known for her sense of irony and biting wit. From A Grave: Man looking into the sea, taking the view from those who have as much right to it as you have to it yourself, it is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing, but you cannot stand in the middle of this; the sea has nothing to give but a well excavated grave.
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- Seller
- Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 540
- Title
- THE COMPLETE POEMS OF MARIANNE MOORE
- Author
- Moore, Marianne
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Macmillan Company / Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1967
- Keywords
- Female American poet, Manhattan laureate,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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Eugene, Oregon
About Joe Pettit Jr., Bookseller; Blackwood Bookhouse
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