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Collected Poems
by Empson, William
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Nice copy
- Seller
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MELBOURNE, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. 3rd imp.. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 119pp., notes, Some spotting to edge of text block & neat ownership signature o/w a nice copy
Synopsis
Fifty-six poems, including "Chinese Ballad" and "A Masque (The Birth of Steel)." "The wrung-out, colloquial dryness of this diction has its own firm music, capable of being heightened, in more elaborate poems, to a grand polyphony."-Robert Fitzgerald, New Republic.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andrew Barnes Booksellers
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 157043
- Title
- Collected Poems
- Author
- Empson, William
- Book Condition
- Used - Nice copy
- Edition
- 3rd imp.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1962
- Size
- small octavo
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andrew Barnes Booksellers
Biblio member since 2006
MELBOURNE, Victoria
About Andrew Barnes Booksellers
We are a general, Internet only bookseller with 25 years experience, specialising in Military & Russian material. We have operated on-line for 9 years
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- Text Block
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