THE HONEST ACCOUNT OF A MEMORABLE LIFE: AN APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL
by Price, Reynolds, (Anthony Hecht)
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
(Rocky Mount, NC): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1994). First edition, limited issue. Number 520 of 750 SIGNED copies, this one INSCRIBED to the Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and his wife, "For Tony & Helen with love & hope from Reynolds." Fine in original burgundy cloth, lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, without dust jacket (as issued). AN ASSOCIATION COPY
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- Bookseller
- Quill & Brush
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 53647
- Title
- THE HONEST ACCOUNT OF A MEMORABLE LIFE: AN APOCRYPHAL GOSPEL
- Author
- Price, Reynolds, (Anthony Hecht)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- North Carolina Wesleyan College Press
- Place of Publication
- (Rocky Mount, NC)
- Date Published
- (1994)
- Bookseller catalogs
- ASSOCIATION COPY;
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Jacket
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- Inscribed
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- Fine
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- Gilt
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