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THE FOLDING CLIFFS: A NARRATIVE OF 19th CENTURY HAWAII
by Merwin, W. S
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good+ dust jacket. Octavo. [16], 331, [5] pp. First edition, signed and inscribed by Merwin. In publisher's cloth-backed boards and dust jacket. A bright copy with only trivial softening to the spine ends; clean throughout; dust jacket is sharp; while it is not price clipped, there is a bookseller's ticket placed over the price on the front flap. A remarkable novel in verse by one of the most important American poets of the second half of the century; here signed and inscribed by him, on the preliminary blank and signed and dated on the title page.
Synopsis
W. S. Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and grew up in Union City, New Jersey, and in Scranton, Pennsylvania. From 1949 to 1951 he worked as a tutor in France, Portugal, and Majorca. He has since lived in many parts of the world, most recently on Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. His many books of poems, prose, and translations are listed at the beginning of this volume. He has been the recipient of many awards and prizes, including the Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets (of which he is now a Chancellor), the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry; most recently he has received the Governor's Award for Literature of the state of Hawaii, the Tanning Prize for mastery in the art of poetry, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Pyron, Bookseller, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5902
- Title
- THE FOLDING CLIFFS: A NARRATIVE OF 19th CENTURY HAWAII
- Author
- Merwin, W. S
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ binding
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+ dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature and Fiction;
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