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McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 88 pages. 5-1/4 by 7-1/4 inches. Poems. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. With a long, rambling inscription by the author to Norman Mailer on the front free endpaper, reading in part: 'I suppose I'm sending you this for the same reason that you sent a book of yours to Ernest Hemingway. There is another motive: the wild thought that you wd be unable to contain your joy whence would come shekels out of the sky for me...'.
Smoking the City: Poems by McCarthy, Bryan - 1965
by McCarthy, Bryan
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Smoking the City: Poems
by McCarthy, Bryan
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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland and Stewart, Limited, 1965. First Canadian Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. xiv, 88pp. Prev owner name inked on ffep. Decorative boards w grey lettering on spine. No wear to covers or spine. Binding square and sound. DJ is clean, showing light shelf wear and small chip to bottom back edge. DJ now preserved in archival cover. Reduced shipping may apply.
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- Book Condition Used - Near Fine
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- Edition First Canadian Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher McClelland and Stewart, Limited
- Place of Publication Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published 1965
- Size 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
- Keywords McCarthy, Bryan, 1930- . Canadian poetry - 20th century
- Size 12mo - over 6� - 7�" tall
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Smoking the City: Poems
by McCarthy, Bryan
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Smoking the City
by McCarthy, Bryan
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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- Very Good
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- Hardcover
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Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1965, hardcover, 88pp, Signed, First Edition, First Printing, Association copy, Signed, inscribed, and dated 1966 by the Author on the front endpaper to Don Hudson, popular CBC Radio, Calgary broadcaster from 1964 through 1989 and host of Wild Rose Forum. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, bottom corners and edge bumped, darkening to spine and edges. Dustjacket, edge nicked, short closed edge tears, in new Brodart sleeve. McCarthy's first collection of original poetry deals with "the horror and wonder of existence" in the smog-bound, virus-laden city. Dustjacket blurbs by Irving Layton and John Robert Columbo (The Tamarack Review).
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