Owls and Artificers: Oxford Lectures on Poetry
by Roy Fuller
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Open Court, 1974. Soft cover. Good. 136 pages. Six lectures given at Oxford in 1969-70, collection first published by Liberty Press 1971. Includes lectures on Marianne Moore and Wallace Stevens. Trade paperback, wraps age-toned along spine and margins and lightly soiled, small chip at heel and 3/4" split in wraps along spine at front bottom. Name of former owner Ann E. Berthoff written on inside front cover, her marginalia on approximately 45 pages and rfep. Laid-in newspaper clipping of a photographic portrait of Fuller (1912-1991) in the 1940s.
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AEB-238
- Title
- Owls and Artificers: Oxford Lectures on Poetry
- Author
- Roy Fuller
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Open Court
- Date Published
- 1974
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY, WALLACE STEVENS, MARIANNE MOORE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary criticism;
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