The Sands of Nippur
by HILDEBRANDT, Frank A
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Vantage Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. A collection of poems evoking the ancient Sumerian city of Nippur. Per the jacket flap, the author seeks to bring ". . .modern man face to face with the aspiration of man two thousand years ago." --- This slim hardcover in red cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling. Dust jacket with sepia-toned drawn portrait of the author to back panel. --- With inked gift inscription to front free endpaper and light edgewear, else a clean, firmly-bound copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges, else nice.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 63 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 70097
- Title
- The Sands of Nippur
- Author
- HILDEBRANDT, Frank A
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Vantage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1965
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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Bluebird Books
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Littleton, Colorado
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- Octavo
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- Edges
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- Chipping
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