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Selected Poems [Inscribed & Signed by Maia and Selden Rodman to Ben and Bernarda Shahn]
by EBERHART, Richard
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- first
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Oxford University Press, 1951. First American Edition. Slim octavo (22.25cm.); original orange cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [8],86pp. General shelf wear with small loss of cloth at spine crown, spine rather sunned, endpapers toned, printer's slug canceled on title page verso, else About Very Good and sound. Gift inscription to front free endpaper: "For Ben + Bernarda from Maia + Selden with love / June 1951." From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Rodman would publish recollections and photographs of his many literary and artistic friends in his book Geniuses & Other Eccentrics (1997), including both the Shahns and Eberhart.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32324
- Title
- Selected Poems [Inscribed & Signed by Maia and Selden Rodman to Ben and Bernarda Shahn]
- Author
- EBERHART, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1951
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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