The Wars of Heaven
by Currey, Richard
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0571144586
- ISBN 13
- 9780571144587
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1990. First English Edition. Hardcover. 0571144586 . INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "Rolland - 'Alone, this close to heaven, who but a coward would have noticed that the ice is darker at the spindle of the world? - A brief note on mystery and poetry from Mary Campbell's The World, The Flesh, and Angels. Richard Currey 3/20/91." In this work, "Richard Currey focuses his poet's imagination on the lives of the working class in West Virginia - a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed - depicting an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity." Ships same or next business day. Book has small bumps on both ends of spine, pages are lightly tanned; otherwise, in fine condition. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages; Signed by Author .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 48428
- Title
- The Wars of Heaven
- Author
- Currey, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First English Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571144586
- ISBN 13
- 9780571144587
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- 0571144586
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