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Adult Bookstore [plus typed poem signed, Love for a Hand]
by Karl Shapiro
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394402499
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402499
- Seller
-
La Grande, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1976. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed on the FFEP: "To John Titsworth, Thanks for the clippings of the poets' meeting and for your good wishes. Sincerely, Karl Shapiro, Davis California, 9/12/78." Accompanying the book is a typed poem, "Love for a Hand" (1952), on a letter-sized sheet, signed and inscribed: "For John Titsworth, Karl Shapiro, Davis, California, January 14, 1976." These items signed two years apart to the same collector. The book is fine in a fine jacket with a yellow "sale price"sticker on top right corner of its front jacket panel. The typed poem is near fine on account of some slim sunning/fading to upper edge; it has two horizontal folds, as if for mailing, and the watermark of an eagle emblem. The poems begins, "Two hands lie still, the hairy and the white / And soon down ladder of reflected light / The sleepers climb in silence ." Unique item, nice pairing. Shapiro won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1945.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rural Hours (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ABE-1614058822672
- Title
- Adult Bookstore [plus typed poem signed, Love for a Hand]
- Author
- Karl Shapiro
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394402499
- ISBN 13
- 9780394402499
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rural Hours
Biblio member since 2023
La Grande, Oregon
About Rural Hours
Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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