The Eagle's Mile. Signed copy.
by DICKEY, James
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- Paperback
- Signed
- first
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Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press/ University Press of New England, (1990). First edition (softcover issue, simultaneous with the hardcover), this copy inscribed & signed by Dickey in ink at the half-title page. Octavo (9" x 7"), 66 & [1] pages. Publisher's pictorial card covers.
Brief wear & shallow creasing at corners, otherwise very good.
A title in the Wesleyan Poetry series & the last book by Dickey published in his lifetime. Features poignant poetry from the eighteenth United States Poet Laureate & author of Deliverance.
"- to Jules/ from Jim -/ at the beginning -/ from/ James Dickey/ (also!).
"Jules" is almost certainly Jules Bacon, a bodybuilder & Mr. America of 1943, who was nominally the subject of an unfinished poem by Dickey entitled "For Jules Bacon."
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1841
- Title
- The Eagle's Mile. Signed copy.
- Author
- DICKEY, James
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press/ University Press of New England
- Place of Publication
- Hanover, New Hampshire
- Date Published
- (1990)
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry, James Dickey, Signed, Jules Bacon, Wesleyan Poetry Series, Alcoholism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature, Fiction, Poetry; Signed;
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