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AWAY
by Creeley, Robert
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0876852800
- ISBN 13
- 9780876852804
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First edition. 78 & [1] pages plus colophon. Red & blue paper covered boards backed with red buckram with a printed label on the spine, in an acetate wrapper. Full-page black-and-white illustrations by Bobbie Creeley. Limited edition of 200 copies numbered and signed by the poet (there were 50 in addition signed by the artist and a wrappers issue of 500). Housed in a specially made quarter leather folding box with gilt titling (which likely cost more than the price of this book). Four pages minutely clipped at the top tip, otherwise fine.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 64605
- Title
- AWAY
- Author
- Creeley, Robert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0876852800
- ISBN 13
- 9780876852804
- Publisher
- Black Sparrow Press
- Place of Publication
- Santa Barbara
- Date Published
- 1976
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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