Language: English
Published by Farrar / Straus / Giroux, New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0374208840 ISBN 13: 9780374208844
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, liv pages. In Fair plus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is black with white print. Dust jacket in mylar. Price unclipped: "$12.50". Boards quarter bound with black cloth to spine and green paper to boards; slight wear to spine caps, fading to rear panel at top of cloth. Text block has light tanning to endpapers, spine break and page xlvii. Signed in pencil by the author on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column S. 1401204. FP New Rockville Stock.
Published by Farrar Straus Giroux (New York) 1984, 1984
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller BA, Ludlow, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 138.43
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketVG bright tight copy in decorated boards in like dusatjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed to 'Bernard and Jane ( McCabe) Derek May '84' ISBN 0374208840.
Published by Faber & Faber, London, 1984
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition Signed
First U.K. Edition. First Impression, a trade paperback original. Octavo (20cm); original printed card wrappers; [10],11-79,[1]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Hint of sunning to spine, else a very Near Fine copy. Laid in is a 4pp bulletin from The Poetry Book Society. "Most poems in this sequence of fifty were written in close succession during one summer in Trinidad. Their principal themes are the relationship of poetry to painting, the stasis of midsummer in the tropics, and the pull of the sea, family, and friendship" (from rear wrapper). 8451.