The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems
by Birney, Earle
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Clarence Park, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
(Toronto: The Ryerson Press: March 1948) First Edition. Boards pp. viii, 84. Fore and lower edges uncut. With notable signed inscription on front free endpaper: For Flexmore Hudson with Transpacific greetings, Earle Birney. Hudson had done much, as editor, to foster an awarenesss of contemporary international verse in Australia. First Edition. Fine copy in dust-jacket whose spine has been moderately sunned and has a dampstain to about its lower third; also a couple of small stains to the jackets front panel; nevertheless, jacket rated very good.
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- Bookseller
- exPB (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 121982
- Title
- The Strait of Anian: Selected Poems
- Author
- Birney, Earle
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Keywords
- literature verse signed copies
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About the Seller
exPB
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Clarence Park, South Australia
About exPB
I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.
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- Spine
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