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Item Details
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| Author: |
Snyder, Gary |
| Title: |
Riprap |
| Place: |
[Ashland, MA] |
| Publisher: |
Origin Press |
| Date: |
1959 |
| Item # : |
184072 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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405 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 2070 |
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| Description: |
| 8¼x5¾, oriental-style saddle-sewn blue patterned paper pasted over stiff wrappers, spine stab-bound and sewn with navy blue thread, paper cover label, custom blue cloth slipcase with gilt-lettered spine. One of 500 copies designed and edited by Cid Corman, printed in Japan. First Edition, First printing. |
| Inscribed and signed by Snyder "for John Gordon Knight, 25.x.90" of Texas Western College (El Paso) with his original 1964 ownership signature, on the title page. True first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book and one of the most important books of poetry published in America post-WWII. This is an exceptionally clean copy of a fragile book. McNeil A1.a. |
| Condition: |
| Fine. |
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