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Collected Poems 1917-1952
by MacLEISH, Archibald
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 407pp. Blue and black cloth. Front flyleaf has light creasing at lower corner, else a near fine copy in very good dust jacket and publisher's wrap-around band, announcing that this title has was the National Book Award for 1953 for Poetry. The jacket is sunned at the extremities as usual with small nicks at tips of spine, and at extremities of front panel, few short tears on front and rear panel, else quite bright. This title won the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the National Book Award. An elusive title in dust jacket, especially with the wrap-around band.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 470167
- Title
- Collected Poems 1917-1952
- Author
- MacLEISH, Archibald
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- Poetry, PulitzerPoetry, NBAPoetry, AmerLit20thCent
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Biblio member since 2005
Gloucester City, New Jersey
About Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., founded in 1985, specializes in first editions of 20th Century American and English fiction. Our inventory of over 75,000 first editions includes: African-American literature & history, Mysteries, Detective Fiction, Drama, Books into Film and Sports books. We routinely issue extensively illustrated color catalogs, available by subscription. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB). Tom Congalton, founder of Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc., actively promotes the ethics and standards of these professional organizations and served as President of the ABAA from 2000 to 2002.
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