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The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript
by Rodney Phillips
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0847819582
- ISBN 13
- 9780847819584
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1997. NF/NF. Book is tight and square with solid hinges and binding and clean unmarred boards. Light bumps to bottom corners. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped (no price as issued) with light rubbing. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 358 Pages. 8 x 10¼" tall.
Based on the exhibition at The New York Public Library, this edition presents a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented, from Muriel Rukeyser, Wallace Stevens, Henry David Thoreau, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Julia Alverez, E. E. Cummings, Emily Bronte, Jack Kerouac, D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, and many more. Writers better known for their prose are included here as well-- Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov, among others.
Based on the exhibition at The New York Public Library, this edition presents a wide range of working drafts, letters, diary entries, photographs, and memorabilia. One hundred writers from the seventeenth century to the present day are represented, from Muriel Rukeyser, Wallace Stevens, Henry David Thoreau, Dylan Thomas, Oscar Wilde, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Julia Alverez, E. E. Cummings, Emily Bronte, Jack Kerouac, D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkner, and many more. Writers better known for their prose are included here as well-- Rudyard Kipling and Vladimir Nabokov, among others.
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- Bookseller
- Armadillo Alley Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3994
- Title
- The Hand of the Poet: Poems and Papers in Manuscript
- Author
- Rodney Phillips
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0847819582
- ISBN 13
- 9780847819584
- Publisher
- Rizzoli International Publications
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 358
- Size
- 8 x 10.25
- Keywords
- , Julia Alverez, E. E. Cummings, Emily Bronte, Jack Kerouac, D. H. Lawrence, Emily Dickinson, William Faulkne
- Bookseller catalogs
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bumps
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- Bookplate
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- Jacket
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- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- New
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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