CHARON'S DAUGHTER: A Passion of Identity
by Cummings de Fôret, Nancy
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0871406284
- ISBN 13
- 9780871406286
- Seller
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Covina, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Haven: Liveright, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Review copy, with the publisher's slip and a photograph of the author laid in. An "autobiographical progression in prose and verse" by the daughter of revered modernist poet E.E. Cummings. Includes eight unpublished E.E. Cummings poems discovered by the author as she was completing the manuscript of this book, as well as 20 watercolors that reflect her father's influence. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some light edgewear.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Johnson Rare Books & Archives (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 76274
- Title
- CHARON'S DAUGHTER: A Passion of Identity
- Author
- Cummings de Fôret, Nancy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0871406284
- ISBN 13
- 9780871406286
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1977
- Keywords
- Poetry, American Literature, Modernism, E.E. Cummings
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Johnson Rare Books & Archives
Biblio member since 2008
Covina, California
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- Fine
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- Publisher's Slip
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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