For the Union Dead
by Lowell, Robert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0374157405
- ISBN 13
- 9780374157401
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 0374157405 . Hardcover in dust jacket. Fifth printing of first edition. Book is crisp and clean in green cloth boards. Binding is tight, corners are sharp. Just a whisper of fading at the very edges. Unclipped dust jacket is intact, with $3.95 on front flap. Very light overall wear to jacket. Title page drawing by Francis Parker. Rave blurbs on rear for other books of Lowell's poetry by A. Alvarez, Elizabeth Bishop, Harold Clurman, and Edmund Wilson. A nice copy. 72 pp. In protective Mylar. .
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- Bookseller
- KULTURAs books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94037
- Title
- For the Union Dead
- Author
- Lowell, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0374157405
- ISBN 13
- 9780374157401
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus And Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- 0374157405
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- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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