The shelf · Collected Poems 1950-1970

First edition

Collected Poems 1950-1970

Donald Davie
Oxford University Press, New York, 1972. First edition, first printing.
$45One copy · this copy

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Book
Very Good
Jacket
Good
Jacket note
The dust jacket grades Good and is protected in a new archival mylar cover, included.
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Title page reads Oxford University Press, New York, 1972 — the US issue
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Copyright page: 'First published 1972 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd', printed by The Camelot Press — British sheets
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No reprint or later-printing statement on the copyright page
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LCN 72-82671; jacket rear flap carries ISBN 19-519712-7 (OUP '19' prefix)
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House dates its reprints rather than printing a number line
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Flaws, each one named
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chipping and fraying to head and tail of jacket spine
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closed tears and creasing to rear jacket panel
3
toning and scattered foxing to jacket, heavier on rear panel
4
light soiling/rubbing to jacket front
This copy
First edition

What a true first shows: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1972, cloth in jacket

Included with this copy: a new archival mylar jacket protector (fitted, included).

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.