Across the Known World
Language: English
Published by Loess Hills Books, Parkersburg, IA, 1997
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used

Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA
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Small 4to. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 47pp. Fine/very good. Faintest of jacket edgewear only. Handsome, tight first edition of this poet's second verse collection, nicely inscribed (not signed) by Ratzlaff in black ballpoint on title page: He crosses off his printed name and pens below it -- "Bill -- With admiration / for your haiku -- and / the fabulous teacher you / must be to have students / write like they do / UNI / 10/28/00." Recipient "Bill" is Bill Pauly (1942-2021), a poet especially known for haikus and long-time English professor at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa.
Seller Inventory # 49005
- Title
- Across the Known World
- Author
- RATZLAFF, Keith
- Publisher
- Loess Hills Books, Parkersburg, IA
- Publication year
- 1997
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0931209749
- ISBN 13
- 9780931209741
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Books, Poetry
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