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Baby Breakdown.
by WALDMAN, Anne
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.,, 1970. Coming down hard on America, you've got to have a heavy typewriter First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. Ted Berrigan, contributing the blurb to this volume, assesses Waldman: "Her poems sing like prayers, pray like songs of joy, never failing to catch the rush of hope, despair, intensity and desperation which pours in in golden smog-filled red-haze with each breath of life. This book is an ordinary miracle." Octavo. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in metallic blue. With dust jacket. Spine and top edge a touch sunned, single mark to front board and one brown spot to fore edge, rear free endpaper a little soiled, very fresh and firm. A near-fine copy in jacket, a few nicks and trivial rubbing to extremities, spine panel a little toned with ends creased, clean and sharp.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 155626
- Title
- Baby Breakdown.
- Author
- WALDMAN, Anne
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc.,
- Date Published
- 1970
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Cloth
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- Rubbing
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Sunned
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- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Octavo
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