A Painted Field
by Robertson, Robin
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- near fine/very good +
- Seller
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Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. near fine/very good +. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, (1997). 89pp, 8vo. First American edition, first printing. A near fine copy in a very good + jacket. Signed and inscribed by author on title page, "for Heather - fellow Northern navgigator, spirit guide (a large Lagavulin, please) with love Robin, May 2002." Faint foxing on top edge of text block. Jacket has a small stain on top inner edge, not visibile from exterior and not affecting the boards.
Synopsis
In “a first book of extraordinary gifts and assured maturity” (W. S. Merwin), Robin Robertson gives us forty-two poems that “are deep, dark journeys into the soul and psyche of human experience” (NPR’s Weekend Edition). “The reader is almost blinded by the incandescent authority of these poems” (Atlanta Journal-Constitution).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Old New York Book Shop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47855
- Title
- A Painted Field
- Author
- Robertson, Robin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition, 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
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