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The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship
by TURCO, Lewis
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- Fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0874519551
- ISBN 13
- 9780874519556
- Seller
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About This Item
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999. Softcover. Fine. First edition, wrappered issue. 12mo. x, 224pp. Spine trifle sunned else fine. Inscribed on the dedication page, beneath the printed dedication, to Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice and his wife: "+ this copy is for Don & Jean Justice, from two old friends- Lew. xmass [sic] '99." The printed dedication reads: "This book is dedicated to JEAN whose idea it was in the first place"; given the context, the dedicatee is likely Turco's wife, Jean. A companion volume to Turco's *The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics*.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 576025
- Title
- The Book of Literary Terms: The Genres of Fiction, Drama, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism, and Scholarship
- Author
- TURCO, Lewis
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0874519551
- ISBN 13
- 9780874519556
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Place of Publication
- Hanover
- Date Published
- 1999
- Keywords
- LitCrit, AssociationCopy
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