Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
by HEANEY, Seamus
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- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); russet paper-covered boards, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine, with author's initials stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; [16],17-224,[2]pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $15.00), with a hint of sunning to spine, some trivial wear and dustiness, and a few tiny tears toward lower right corner of front panel; Near Fine. The Nobel Prize-winning poet's first prose collection.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 59800
- Title
- Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978
- Author
- HEANEY, Seamus
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus, Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1980
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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- Octavo
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