Unhired
by Wieners, John
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
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Hopewell, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: The Perishable Press Limited, 1968. First Edition, First Printing.
Three slightly different versions of the same poem by John Wieners (1934-2002), showing how he revised the poem and settled on the final wording. One of 250 copies from Walter Hamady's Perishable Press, hand-set in Palatino and printed on variegated Shadwell handmade paper. A beautiful production from Perishable Press.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Octavo (7 1/2 x 5 3/4 inches; 192 x 145 mm), unpaginated (12 pages), in gray-green dust jacket over gray-green, sewn wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Slight rubbing to outer jacket. Near Fine.
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- Bookseller
- Le Bookiniste, ABAA-ILAB-IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2809
- Title
- Unhired
- Author
- Wieners, John
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- The Perishable Press Limited
- Place of Publication
- Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin
- Date Published
- 1968
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry; Beats
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
Terms of Sale
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- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- First Edition
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Fine
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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