GABRIEL
by Hirsch, Edward
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Knopf, 2014. First edition. Paper-over-boards in dust jacket; 8vo. 78 pp. The poet's eighth collection, a sequence of poems about the death of his young son. The jacket flap signed by the jacket designer Oliver Munday. Fine in a fine dust jacket (like all of our hardcovers in dust jacket in a removable protective archival cover).
Synopsis
Edward Hirsch is the author of eight collections of poetry, including Wild Gratitude , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems . He has published several prose books, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry , a national best seller. His numerous awards include a MacArthur Fellowship. A longtime teacher in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, Hirsch is now the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66829
- Title
- GABRIEL
- Author
- Hirsch, Edward
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2014
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Fine
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- Paper-Over-Boards
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