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New Irish Poets. Representative Selections from the Work of 37 Contemporaries
by Garrity, Devin A. (Editor)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good Minus/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1948. An anthology edited by Devin A. Garrity. Photographs and biographical notes on the poets who are included. An uncommon to scarce title. Greenish-gray cloth binding with silver lettering and illustrated front board. Includes twelve woodcut illustrations by Harry Kernoff, R.H A. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with a silver illustration on the front cover and silver lettering on the spine. Clean text; 209 pages, with Notes. Somewhat shaken: the rear gutter has cracked, but is holding. It has taken sun around the margins, and the spine has faded to a brown colour (the lettering remains bright). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Harry Kernoff, R.H.A..
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003022
- Title
- New Irish Poets. Representative Selections from the Work of 37 Contemporaries
- Author
- Garrity, Devin A. (Editor)
- Illustrator
- Harry Kernoff, R.H.A.
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Minus
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- The Devin-Adair Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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