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Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day. Camden Festival 1970
by (HEANEY, Seamus, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Picard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Jon Silkin and William Plomer). Jeni Couzyn, edited by
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- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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About This Item
London: Poets Trust, 1970. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, signed issue. Edited by Jeni Couzyn. Small quarto. Bottom corners a trifle bumped else fine in fine dust jacket. Features the first appearance of 12 poems by 12 poets. This is copy number 25 of 100 copies Signed by all 12 contributors, facing the title page: Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Picard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Jon Silkin and William Plomer. Housed with a fine copy of the wrappered edition in a custom forest green cloth clamshell case with Seamus Heaney's facsimile signature and spine titling in gilt.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 578605
- Title
- Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day. Camden Festival 1970
- Author
- (HEANEY, Seamus, Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Picard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Jon Silkin and William Plomer). Jeni Couzyn, edited by
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Poets Trust
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Anthology, EnglishLiterature, IrishLiterature, Poetry, NobelLaureate
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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