New and Selected Poems
by OLIVER, Mary
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992. First edition. Xii, 255p. Green cloth-backed boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Some insect soiling to upper textblock fore-edge and top; light toning to edges of leaves. Very good in a near fine, unclipped jacket, lightly crumpled at spine ends. Signed by Oliver above her name on title page; also signed, inscribed, and dated in year of publication by Oliver to the ffep. A signed, presentation copy of this book gathering work from the first eight books by the late American poet Mary Oliver (1935-2019), with thirty new poems published only here; a monumental volume which won the 1992 National Book Award for Poetry. Inscribed by Oliver to poet Neva Johnson Herrington (1926-2024), a part-time instructor at Sweet Briar College, where Oliver was writer-in-residence at the time of this book's publication, and where she inscribed this copy to Herrington.
Synopsis
Vol. 1 originally published 1992; redesigned ed. to accompany the publication of v. 2. National Book Award for Poetry, 1992
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- Dividing Line Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002607
- Title
- New and Selected Poems
- Author
- OLIVER, Mary
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1992
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