The Darker Face of Earth: A Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes [Signed, Numbered]
by Dove, Rita (Play); Wooley, Mark (Illustrations)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's verse-play set among enslaved people on a plantation in antebellum South Carolina. Dove also served as the US Poet Laureate.
This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in the publisher's purple and black cloth binding (hardcover). This is no. 33 of 224, signed by Dove.
This is one of 224 numbered copies, signed by the author on the title page. 140 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in the publisher's purple and black cloth binding (hardcover). This is no. 33 of 224, signed by Dove.
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- Bookseller
- Downtown Brown Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51445
- Title
- The Darker Face of Earth: A Verse Play in Fourteen Scenes [Signed, Numbered]
- Author
- Dove, Rita (Play); Wooley, Mark (Illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Story Line Press
- Place of Publication
- Brownsville, OR
- Date Published
- 1994
- Keywords
- mf33
- Bookseller catalogs
- FICTION; AFRICAN AMERICAN; POETRY; Drama & Plays;
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