War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
by NEMEROV, Howard
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0226572420
- ISBN 13
- 9780226572420
- Seller
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Galena, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter blue cloth with silver spine lettering and black paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. ix, 60pp. Fine/fine. Pristine first edition of this verse collection by the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning two-time U.S. Poet Laureate (1920-91). Best of all, tipped to blank leaf facing the title page is a unique frontispiece: A Typed Document Signed, heavy stock 6" X 4" card, n.p., n.y. Fine. Typescript of Nemerov's brief poem "Absent-Minded Professor," boldly signed by him in black ink at the close. A superb first edition with delightful autograph addition.
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- Bookseller
- Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49002
- Title
- War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
- Author
- NEMEROV, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0226572420
- ISBN 13
- 9780226572420
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1987
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books; Poetry;
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