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Poems from Oby
by MacBeth, George
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 043627017X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436270178
- Seller
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About This Item
Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. Very Good/Very Good. 1982. First Edition. Hard Cover. 12mo 043627017X Dust jacket complete, unclipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. 9x5.5. 67pp. clean and tight. George MacBeth writes: These Poems from Oby are the fruit of a new involvement with the countryside. There are themes handled before, in Poems ofLove and Death, as well as in earlier volumes. But the treatment is now, I hope, more consistent, and less diversified by comic and performance and experimental elements. There is also, I think, more optimism than usual, surprising perhaps in a poet approaching fifty. The reason may only be - but what is the word "only" in this context to mean? -the luck of settlement, finding a piece of land to feel secure on, and someone to live there with.. I am grateful for this good fortune, and offer Poems-from Oby as a down payment on what is owed. Poems from Oby is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Spring 1982. .
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- Bookseller
- CHARLES BOSSOM
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140564
- Title
- Poems from Oby
- Author
- MacBeth, George
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good/Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 043627017X
- ISBN 13
- 9780436270178
- Publisher
- Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1982
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