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The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
by Stevens, Wallace
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. Seventh Printing. Hardback. Dust jacket lightly age-toned, bumped on corners, minute splitting on several corners and at bottom edge of front panel, front flap clipped; Blue cloth boards, a touch bumped on bottom corners, lightly sunned at top and bottom edges, gilt lettering and cover design bright; Pages age-toned, top-edge sprayed burgundy, light offsetting on endpapers, previous owner's dedication on ffep [dated 1966], rough-cut fore-edge, B&W frontispiece; Binding tight. ; Borzoi Books ; 6.5 x 9.5"; 550 pages .
Synopsis
Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955) is a Modernist poet. Some of his best known poems in this collection include "Anecdote of the Jar", "Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock", "The Emperor of Ice-Cream", "The Idea of Order at Key West", "Sunday Morning", and "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1955
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- Bookseller
- Walden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53232
- Title
- The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens
- Author
- Stevens, Wallace
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Seventh Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Date Published
- 1965
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About Walden Books
Second-hand and antiquarian booksellers since 1977, in present shop since 1979, open Thurs-Sunday, with an emphasis on History of Art and Architecture, Photography, Literature and Poetry, Literary Biography and Criticism and the the History of London.
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