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Elizabeth Bishop's first book
Elizabeth Bishop's first book
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Description
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Author: Bishop, Elizabeth
Title: North & South
Place Published: Boston
Publisher:Houghton Mifflin Company
Date Published: 1946
Description: Blue cloth stamped in silver, publisher‘s jacket. First Edition.The Pulitzer Prize winning author‘s first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Prize for poetry.
Condition
Wear and soiling to jacket with chipping to edges and folds, most of jacket spine lacking, some tape repairs to verso; cloth with some edgewear, soiling and toning; offsetting to endpapers; about very good volume in good jacket.
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Elizabeth Bishop's first book

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