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Wading Through Doves (Signed)

by White, Eliot

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Near Fine/Good
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About This Item

Boston: Nimrod, 1966. Plain glassine dust jacket is torn bottom of front panel and has small chips and tears along the edges. Poems; 142 pages. Inscribed by "author" on front free endpaper "To ___, my beloved colleague, with gratitude for all your help in past years, Eliot White / New Year's, 1967". A typed card, laid-in, written by the author's daughter, explains the book inscription "Just a note to bring you the sad news that my father, Rev. Eliot White, passed away in the early morning of January 20th . . . . he had had a collection of his poems published this fall, and ironically, the books were delived just this week. . . . . He had been looking forward to sending you a copy, so you will be receiving it, inscribed just as he asked me to do it." Presumably, all other "signed" copies will have been done by the author's daughter.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover in Dust Jacket. Near Fine/Good.

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Bookseller
Purpora Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
16833
Title
Wading Through Doves (Signed)
Author
White, Eliot
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Nimrod
Place of Publication
Boston
Date Published
1966

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About Purpora Books

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