9780246974396 - Lice di Merwin, W. S. (6 risultati)

8vo. Pp: [viii], 80. First edition. Publisher's brown boards with gilt lettering to spine and brown publisher's stain to top edge of text block. Brown dust jacket with black and white lettering. Review slip loosely inserted at front. ISBN: 0246974397 Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Slight toning at fore edge and bottom edge of text block. Slight shelf wear at head and tail of spine and at head and tail of dust jacket spine. Some shelf wear and toning at top edge of dust jacket. Small crease at top corner of front flap of dust jacket.

Hard cover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Jacket has small nick on edge of back cover. Jacket spine sunned.

Brown Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First British Edition. (x), 80pp, 1p about the author, pages clean and crisp, dark brown top stain, brown cloth with gilt spine lettering, unclipped dust jacket has minimal wear to edges. Size: 8 x 5.5 Inches. Poetry.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First UK Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. ***In a near fine bronze, black and white titled dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 25s net to bottom of front jacket flap. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightly creased and rubbed. No tears. Dustwrapper clean and bright. 204mm x 134mm. 80 pages plus a note about the poet to the rear. ***W. S. Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2009 and is now recognized as an important poet. ***'---Merwin's new style has indeed come to flower in The Lice. Throughout this book one discovers again and again a startling image, freshness in the handling of rhythm, the recognition of the potentialities of a word. Though he incorporates a variety of techniques there remains nonetheless a compelling unity within the collection. The poems mirror the poet's concerns: mutability, time and death.'' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper in extremely nice, bright, clean collectable condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Condizione: good. This book is in Good condition. There may be some notes and highligting but otherwise the book is in overall good condition.

**SIGNED & DATED** First impression of the true first edition. Fine condition, fine dust jacket, best copy that I could find. In a brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Pages clean. No foxing. No inscriptions. Spine tight. In a fine bronze, black and white titled dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing the original publisher's price of 25s net to bottom of front jacket flap. Extremities of dustwrapper very slightest bit creased on the front and back exterior boards. Dust wrapper clean and bright. 204mm x 134mm. 80 pages plus a note about the poet to the rear. W. S. Merwin won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2009 and is now recognized as an important poet. -Merwin's new style has indeed come to flower in The Lice. Throughout this book one discovers again and again a startling image, freshness in the handling of rhythm, the recognition of the potentialities of a word. Though he incorporates a variety of techniques there remains nonetheless a compelling unity within the collection. The poems mirror the poet's concerns: mutability, time and death.'' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original dustwrapper, bright, clean rare collectable condition.