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Sleepers Joining Hands
by Bly, Robert
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Woodstock, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second Printing. Inscribed with a drawing by Bly on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, clipped, lightly soiled. Olive and cream cloth on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Bly's follow-up to his National Book Award-winning collection The Light Around the Body. Here Bly "moves deeper into the spiritual terrain of America--exploring what it is in us that continues to bomb in Vietnam, to sweep the Indians aside, to exploit the countryside: the shadow side of American consciousness.
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- Bookseller
- Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9133
- Title
- Sleepers Joining Hands
- Author
- Bly, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harper and Row, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Poetry, American Poetry, 1970s, Counterculture, Vietnam War, Race, American Studies, Modern Literature
Terms of Sale
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
All items are returnable for a refund within 30 days of receipt.
About the Seller
Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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Woodstock, Illinois
About Carpetbagger Books, IOBA
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Jacket
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