Currey, Richard

The Wars of Heaven

Hardcover, London: Faber & Faber, 1990. First English Edition. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by author on half-title page, "Rolland - 'Alone, this close to heaven, who but a coward would have noticed that the ice is darker at the spindle of the world? - A brief note on mystery and poetry from Mary Campbell's The World, The Flesh, and Angels. Richard Currey 3/20/91." In this work, "Richard Currey focuses his poet's imagination on the lives of the working class in West Virginia - a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed - depicting an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity." Ships same or next business day. Book has small bumps on both ends of spine, pages are lightly tanned; otherwise, in fine condition. Dust jacket protected in archival plastic cover. DJ has minor edge wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 160 pages; Signed by Author. [Item #48428]

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