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Monkey Poems
by Eugene Walter
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Book in very good condition, light shelf wear and rubbing around edges, small stain at spine mid-section, otherwise binding is s/Fair, two dust jackets: outer jacket printed on marbled paper has some wear and light chipping around edges and at corners, a fe
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris, France: Editions Finistere, 1953. First edition. Softcover 8vo with cream wrappers and black lettering in two two jackets, interior heavy green paper and an exterior marbled paper with a pasted pictorial label on cover, 57 pp. Book in very good condition, light shelf wear and rubbing around edges, small stain at spine mid-section, otherwise binding is strong and is a very clean copy (aside from first page inscription)./Fair, two dust jackets: outer jacket printed on marbled paper has some wear and light chipping around edges and at corners, a few small sections displaced on spine, a few discolorations visible from interior of jacket, which has been fractured along the middle into two pieces with considerable(1"-2") tears at joints and seams of flaps; and the inner dust wrapper is in tact with light wear and chipping around edges. overall, complete with good color yet frail and borderline brittle jackets. Expat, actor, poet, who knows what else embody this mystery renaissance man, but here is his only work of poetry, first published in Paris, 1953, this copy is inscribed as a gift to NYRB's senior editor Robert Silvers.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 361
- Title
- Monkey Poems
- Author
- Eugene Walter
- Format/Binding
- Softcover 8vo with cream wrappers and black lettering in two two jackets, interior heavy green paper and an exterior marbled pap
- Book Condition
- Used - Book in very good condition, light shelf wear and rubbing around edges, small stain at spine mid-section, otherwise binding is s
- Jacket Condition
- Fair, two dust jackets: outer jacket printed on marbled paper has some wear and light chipping around edges and at corners, a fe
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Editions Finistere
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Date Published
- 1953
- Keywords
- Poetry, 1950s, Eugene Walter, Expatriot, Expats, Expat, NYRB, Bob Silvers
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About the Seller
Better Read Than Dead
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Ridgewood, New York
About Better Read Than Dead
Better Read Than Dead has been selling used books and other printed materials in Brooklyn, NY since 2012. We currently operate two open storefronts and an ever-growing online inventory.
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- Spine
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- Inscribed
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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...
- Rubbing
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shelf Wear
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- 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...
- Marbled Paper
- Decorative colored paper that imitates marble with a veined, mottled, or swirling pattern. Commonly used as the end papers or...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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