Jack Without Magic: Poems
by Curnow, Allen
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good with no dust jacket
- Seller
-
Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
Christchurch: The Caxton Press. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1946. First Edition. Softcover. Some rubbing to covers. No signatures.; Uncommon. An edition of 200 copies. Unpaginated. [12] leaves including blank leaves at front and rear. Black paper wrappers with paper title label on front wrapper. Page dimensions: 185 x 107mm. New Zealand literature, poetry. Printed on laid paper. "Cleverer than ever O atom brain, / Nature you dread, and next to nature, art: / Jack without magic springs his traps in vain / Against these giants and genii of the heart." [Bibliographical reference: Bagnall C1907; McLaren "Caxton Press" 150] .
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24452
- Title
- Jack Without Magic: Poems
- Author
- Curnow, Allen
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Caxton Press
- Place of Publication
- Christchurch
- Date Published
- 1946
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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- Wrappers
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Leaves
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- Rubbing
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