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Field, Edward Counting Myself Lucky Selected Poems 1963-1992
$125.00
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. First edition. This title was released in a run of 200 trade copies, 125 signed and numbered copies, and 26 copies hand bound by Earle Gray that are both signed and lettered . This is letter ‘E’. Original decorative cloth-wrapped pictorial paper-covered boards. With original acetate dust jacket. Title paste-down on spine. 307 pages.
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