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The Broken Span
by Williams, William Carlos
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Norfolk: New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, second state (purple lettered/illustrated front cover) with only 100 copies of the first state printed. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain tanned, stapled wrappers, (32pp.), unpaginated; light toning to cover and page margins, else stiff wraps in fine condition; dust jacket with mild toning to spine and folds, upper spine fold starting, and a touch of wear to corner edges, else fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003071
- Title
- The Broken Span
- Author
- Williams, William Carlos
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk
- Date Published
- 1941
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY, LITERATURE, POET OF THE MONTH SERIES.
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
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- Edges
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- First State
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- Fine
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- Spine
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- New
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...
- 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...
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