The Kind of Poetry I Want.
by MacDIARMID, Hugh
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
K.D. Duval, Edinburgh., 1961. First edition. Quarto. 61 pages. Parchment-backed patterned boards. Top edge gilt. Printed in Grifo type on hand-made paper prepared by Fratelli Magnani, Pescia, by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni in Verona. A long poem with a Foreword and Notes by the author. On the front pastedown is the bookplate of the author and literary agent Giles Gordon. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author.Fine in publisher's plain card slipcase missing the topstrip.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- MACDIARM017967
- Title
- The Kind of Poetry I Want.
- Author
- MacDIARMID, Hugh
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- K.D. Duval, Edinburgh.
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- scottish
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