The Poet's Vocation: Selections from letters of Holderlin, Rimbaud & Hart Crane
by Holderlin, Rimbaud & Hart Crane. Edited & translated by William Burford and Christopher Middleton
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Austin: The University of Texas, 1967. Limited 1st Printing. Cloth Bound Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Cyril Satorsky. 1967, not dated. Size octavo, 8.5" tall, 71 pages. Light-mid brown cloth covered boards with a gilt vignette of birds in a tree on the front cover and gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition near fine, a very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed and creased, spine slightly sunned, a few light handling marks, not price clipped, no price stated. The paste-downs and end-papers are illustrated with woodcut or lino cut silhouettes of trees and birds, the title page is illustrated in the same style with portraits of the three poets. One of a Limited Edition of 750 copies printed in Times New Roman by the printing division of The University of Texas.
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- Bookseller
- Lazarus Books Limited
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017995
- Title
- The Poet's Vocation: Selections from letters of Holderlin, Rimbaud & Hart Crane
- Author
- Holderlin, Rimbaud & Hart Crane. Edited & translated by William Burford and Christopher Middleton
- Illustrator
- Cyril Satorsky
- Format/Binding
- Cloth Bound Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited 1st Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The University of Texas
- Place of Publication
- Austin
- Date Published
- 1967
- Pages
- 71
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- NON FICTION POEMS POETS POETRY BIOGRAPHY LETTERS DIARIES CORRESPONDENCE
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Lazarus Books Limited
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Blackpool, Lancashire
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