THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES
by Wilbur, Richard
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
-
Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947. First Edition. Original light green cloth w/ dark green lettering in dust jacket; small 8vo. 55 pp. The poet's first book, only 750 copies issued; reissued at a later date by Harcourt Brace, who bought Reynal in 1947. This copy signed and inscribed on the ffep "for __ __/ With thanks for his kind gift/..../Richard Wilbur/ Cummington/ 27 February 2012". The dust jacket flaps and endpapers with old cello tape, residue from removed bookplate, else very good, in a worn and price-clipped good dust jacket (in removable protective archival jacket).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 66060
- Title
- THE BEAUTIFUL CHANGES
- Author
- Wilbur, Richard
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Reynal & Hitchcock
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1947
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- Cloth
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- First Edition
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