Paper Prayers
by Karen Kenyon
- Used
- good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Menifee, California, United States
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About This Item
Sunshower Press. Good. 1987 signed and inscribed first edition / limited edition (50 copies), Sunshower Press (La Jolla, California), 5 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches tall stapled paperbound in covers with Asian calligraphy design by Jean Shen, [33] pp. Covers moderately soiled, rubbed and edgeworn. A couple of instances of slight marginal soiling. Nicely inscribed and signed by the poet in the year of issue on the verso of the front cover. Pencil mark indicating this is copy 3 of 50 at the bottom corner of the title page. Brief handwritten note from the poet to the prior owner and a revised preface laid in. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce poetry collection by a respected San Diego area writer. Not in OCLC. Standard shipping orders upgraded free to First Class. ~HHH~ Karen Kenyon is a writer and teacher who lives near La Jolla, California. Her work (poetry, essays, interviews, travel articles, profiles) appears regularly in The Christian Science Monitor, British Heritage, The San Diego Union-Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, San Diego Magazine, and other publications. Her published books are Sunshower (a memoir about the journey she and her son took through the grief of her young husband's death), published in 1981 by Richard Marek, through G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, and The Bronte Family/Passionate Literary Geniuses (a Young Adult biography of the talented Bronte family - Charlotte, Emily, Anne), published in 2003 by Lerner Publishing Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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- Bookseller
- Flamingo Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- HHH-1151-4865
- Title
- Paper Prayers
- Author
- Karen Kenyon
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sunshower Press
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