95 Poems [Ninety Five]
by E.E. Cummings
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good, tight square binding, small stain to front board. Previous owner inscription and decorative card pasted into front fr/Good only jacket, soiled, edgeworn and lightly sunned to spine and front, some shallow chips, creases, closed tears. Dampstained
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1958. First Edition. Black cloth spine, lettered in brown, backing brown paper covered boards with decorative "95" printed to both. In pictorial jacket. Very Good, tight square binding, small stain to front board. Previous owner inscription and decorative card pasted into front free endpaper. Light toning, trace abrasion to edges of text block./Good only jacket, soiled, edgeworn and lightly sunned to spine and front, some shallow chips, creases, closed tears. Dampstained to front.. Jacket design by Janet Halverson. First trade edition of Cumming's final book published in his lifetime, preceded by a limited signed edition of only 300.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 925
- Title
- 95 Poems [Ninety Five]
- Author
- E.E. Cummings
- Illustrator
- Jacket design by Janet Halverson
- Format/Binding
- Black cloth spine, lettered in brown, backing brown paper covered boards with decorative "95" printed to both. In pictorial jack
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good, tight square binding, small stain to front board. Previous owner inscription and decorative card pasted into front fr
- Jacket Condition
- Good only jacket, soiled, edgeworn and lightly sunned to spine and front, some shallow chips, creases, closed tears. Dampstained
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
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- Cloth
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- First Edition
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- Tight
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Spine
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- Sunned
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- Text Block
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