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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.: Poems.
by ASHBERY, John
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, , 1975. First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed "for Anne Fremantle, with admiration, John Ashbery, December 1 1975" to half-title. The recipient is "Anne Fremantle, a British-born author, art critic, essayist and editor" (The New York Times obituary, 28 December 2002, retrieved 29.11.19), who also "published her first poems in 1931 and followed them with nearly two dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction" (ibid.). In 1977, Ashbery appeared for a reading with Barbara Guest on P.E.N. Portraits, hosted by Anne Fremantle. Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed greenish-brown paper-covered boards, titles in green to spine. With dust jacket. Slight toning and rubbing to edges of boards, else a fine copy in the near-fine jacket, minor nicks to corners, light toning to verso.
Synopsis
John Ashberry won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror . Ashberry reaffirms the poetic powers that have made him such an outstanding figure in contemporary literature. This new book continues his astonishing explorations of places where no one has ever been.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135895
- Title
- Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
- Author
- ASHBERY, John
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: The Viking Press,
- Date Published
- 1975
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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