1975 HENRY TAYLOR POETRY An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards 1st Edition NF HCDJ

Description: AN AFTERNOON OF POCKET BILLIARDS Poetry by Henry Taylor and published by University of Utah Press. Copyright 1975; there is no statement of printing, but the U of U Press’s practice is not to mention edition, but to list subsequent printings on the copyright page. There are no subsequent printings mentioned. From Wikipedia: Henry Splawn Taylor (born June 21, 1942) is an American poet, author of more than 15 books of poems and winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Taylor was born in Lincoln, Virginia, in rural Loudoun County, where he was raised as a Quaker. He went to high school at George School in Newtown, Pennsylvania. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1965 and received his M.A. from Hollins University (formerly Hollins College) in 1966. He taught literature and co-directed the Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing at American University from 1971–2003. From poets.org: Henry Taylor’s collections of poetry include Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 (Louisiana State University Press, 1996); The Flying Change (1985), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards(1975), and The Horse Show at Midnight (1966). Taylor is the recipient of the Witter Bynner Foundation Poetry Prize from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Golden Crane Award of the Washington Chapter of the American Literary Translators Association, and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He has also translated several works from Bulgarian, French, Hebrew, Italian, and Russian, including Black Book of the Endangered Species (1999) by the Bulgarian poet Vladimir Levchev. He lives in Leesburg, Virginia, and is a professor of literature and co-director of the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at American University in Washington, D.C. DESCRIPTION: 78 pages 9 1/4 x 6 3/8 inches First printing, hardcover with dustjacket CONDITION: This hard-cover book is in near fine condition with a very good dustjacket. The black cloth hardcover is clean and shows only slight wear at the corners and spine ends. The interior is excellent with no names, marks, underlining, tears or odor. The hinges and binding are excellent with no loose or missing pages. The dustjacket is complete, but has two tears in the top edges—one on the back panel 1 inch long and the other 1/4 inch long on the front panel. It is rubbed and slightly worn at the edges and corners. BECAUSE MEDIA RATE SHIPPING IS FREE ON THE BOOKS I SELL, COMBINE THIS WITH OTHER ITEMS FROM MY EBAY STORE. I AM AN EXPERIENCED EBAY SELLER (23+ YEARS) AND SHIPPER WITH 100% (always!--since 1997!) FEEDBACK RATING. ALL ITEMS ARE CAREFULLY AND SECURELY PACKED TO REDUCE OR ELIMINATE DANGER OF CRUSHING AND OR WATER/MOISTURE DAMAGE. ALL BOOKS ARE SHIPPED IN STURDY BOXES WITH TRACKING AND DELIVERY CONFIRMATION INCLUDED. I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE ALL OF THE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND SIGNATURES ON BOOKS I SELL.

Price: 19.99 USD

Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

End Time: 2024-08-07T17:09:29.000Z

Shipping Cost: 0 USD