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Bright Ambush
by Wurdemann, Audrey
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Moab, Utah, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: John Day Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first work, with prospectus. 1935 Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry. Ex libris Ivan Doig per bookplate. Inscribed by the typographer Richard Ellis, along with a letter written on the prospectus. Trained as a chemist, Ellis became involved in typography after WWI and continued to design books throughout his life. Green cloth boards are lightly rubbed on edges, interior is clean, binding tight. Mylar-wrapped dust jacket is sunned overall with chips along edges, has not been price-clipped; Book; 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall; Signed by Typographer .
Synopsis
Bright Ambush is a book of poems written by Audrey Wurdemann in 1934. In May, 1935 Wurdemann won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the book. She was the youngest person to win the prize for poetry.
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- Bookseller
- Back of Beyond Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007313id
- Title
- Bright Ambush
- Author
- Wurdemann, Audrey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1934
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About the Seller
Back of Beyond Books
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Moab, Utah
About Back of Beyond Books
Located in the heart of the desert southwest Back of Beyond Books is an indie bookstore in Moab, Utah. The name of the store was drawn from one of Edward Abbey's most well-known fiction titles, The Monkey Wrench Gang. We specialize in natural history, environmental literature, southwestern guidebooks & maps, Native American books, and Western history. But we also carry a wild assortment of fiction, science, philosophy, current affairs, rare books, and generally other cool stuff.
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- Sunned
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- Bookplate
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- First Edition
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Inscribed
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