SELECTED POEMS
by Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Collectible-Very Good+/Good
- Seller
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harper & Row, 1964. x, 127 pages. AUTOGRAPHED copy of this December 1964 reprint of poetry by U. S. Poet Laureate Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement and the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize. Boldly SIGNED, without inscription, by Brooks on the hal-title page. The book is clean and tight, with minor shelfwear on the bottom edge of the covers. The dust jacket is not price-clipped, but there are a few spots of staining on the front panel.. SIGNED. Reprint. Hardcover. Collectible-Very Good+/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- W1680
- Title
- SELECTED POEMS
- Author
- Brooks, Gwendolyn
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible-Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- Autographed
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Autographs and Signed Books;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
We hold books only for firm orders. Books may be returned within 7 days of receipt for refund of purchase price. We pay shipping costs only if we have made a significant error in description.
About the Seller
Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Biblio member since 2004
Williamsburg, Virginia
About Tennyson Williams, Books and Fine Art
Our office, located in historic Williamsburg, Virginia, is open by appointment or by chance. We are antiquarian booksellers who buy and sell carefully selected books for collectors and researchers in many genre. We also sell important autographs and photographs as well as original art, including wood engravings by Winslow Homer and J. J. Lankes; lithographs by Miró, Matisse, Calder, Wengenroth, and others; and works from the American Etching Revival. You can reach us by telephone: (757)378-5400; or by email: twbooks1@cox.net.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...