SKIES - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
by Myles, Eileen
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2001. First Edition. Poems, many of them gathered from the pages of various little magazines and journals, including the text of a panel discussion Myles participated in at the Schoolhouse Center in Provincetown, MA on August 8, 1999. Deluxe Issue, one of probably no more than a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for use by the author, publisher, and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and blue cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [12],13-213,[5]pp. Faint, scattered foxing to board and text edges, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6051
- Title
- SKIES - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED
- Author
- Myles, Eileen
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Rosa
- Date Published
- 2001
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Edges
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- First Edition
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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- Colophon
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