Poems of Night (Poetry USA Series)
by Kinnell, Galway
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London, England, U.K.: Rapp & Carroll, 1968. This is a first printing of a British edition of Kinnell's poems taken from his first two books, What a Kingdom It Was (1960) and Flower Herding on Mount Mondanock (1964); includes the 450-line poem The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World, which Selden Rodman called "the freshest, most exciting, and by far the most readable poem of a bleak decade" (white covers with french flaps, very slight edge wear; otherwise a bright, clean, tight copy; in stock & available for immediate shipment from a reliable independent bookstore). First Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- House of Our Own Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005940
- Title
- Poems of Night (Poetry USA Series)
- Author
- Kinnell, Galway
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Rapp & Carroll
- Place of Publication
- London, England, U.K.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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