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GB: Gollancz, 1959. Book and dustwrapper/dustjacket are in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age. Text edges bit spotted. DW is priced 12/6 net. In loose polythene protector. . 1st Edition. Hardback. VG+/VG+ DW.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. First thus: collection of 55 poems in book form; originally appearing in magazines. Published in London with no mention of later printings.

Gollancz, London, 1959. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first English edition (first printing) of the author's first book, which was published in the US a year earlier under the title 'The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures'. Slim 8vo. 82pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled and with the merest hint of rubbing to one or two extremities. Fifty-four poems plus the twenty-six part verse 'A Cheerful Alphabet of Pleasant Objects'..

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 0x0x0. First UK edition. Jacket price clipped, edges lightly foxed. 1959 Hard Cover. viii, 81 pp. Author's first book, originally published in the United States as The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures. This edition includes an author's note not included in the American edition. CONTENTS: Duet, with Muffled Brake Drums; Ex-Basketball Player; Player Piano; Shipbored; An Ode; The Clan; Why the Telephone Wires Dip and the Poles are Cracked and Crooked; The Population of Argentina; Even Egrets Err; Scenic; Tune, in American Type; Lament, for Cocoa; Recitative for Punished Products; V. B. Nimble, V. B. Quick; Song of the Open Fireplace; March: A Birthday Poem; Sunflower; Poetess; Pooem; Capacity; An Imaginable Conference; The Story of My Life; The Newlyweds; Humanitites Course; English Train Compartment; Time's Fool; Philological; To an Usherette; Sunglasses; Cloud Shadows; A Modest Mound of Bones;… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. The author's 1st book, published here in the U.S. as THE CARPENTERED HEN. Foxing to edges of page block. Boards are a bit sprung. Dustjacket lightly soiled. . First British Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Near Fine.

Gollancz, 1959-01-01. Unknown Binding. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Black Hardback/Hardcover without dust cover. Clean text, sound binding.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1959. First British edition of the author's first book, entitled "The Carpentered Hen" in the States. Fine in dust jacket.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1959. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. An excellent copy of the First British Edition of the author's First Book and first book of poetry, published in the United States as, The Carpentered Hen. A fine example in black cloth, gilt titles to the spine in fine, lovely, fresh dustwrapper. 8vo. 82 pp. Beautiful example.