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Howes, Barbara. The Undersea Farmer. The Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 42 page hardcover book of poems - a limited and numbered edition (this is 133 of 250) printed at Banyan Press in Pawlet, Vermont. Full blue cloth exterior with title on paper spine label. Unmarked, tight and clean.
Seller: G.J. Askins Bookseller, New Lebanon, NY, U.S.A.
Howes, Barbara. The Undersea Farmer. The Banyan Press, Pawlet, VT, 1948.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Full blue cloth, printed paper label on the spine. 40 pp. Slight rubbing to spine label, near fine overall. One of 250 numbered copies of Howes' first book. Attractive publication announcement laid in.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
HOWES, Barbara.. The Undersea Farmer.. Pawlet: Banyan Press,, 1948.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 40 pp. Fine in full dark blue cloth with printed spine label. Lacks the unprinted waxpaper dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies. Howes' first book.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Howes, Barbara. The Undersea Farmer. Banyan Press, Pawlet, 1948.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Description: One of 250 numbered copies of the author's first book. Bound in publisher's original full blue cloth. Fine condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
HOWES, Barbara. THE UNDERSEA FARMER. The Banyan Press, Pawlet, 1948.
Price: US$168.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 40. Bound in publisher's cloth in torn original tissue dj. This copy has two separate complimentary slips from the author laid in. This was the author's first husband's copy (poet William Jay Smith - purchased from him) although it is not signed by Howes nor Smith. Smith is also the dedicatee of this book. One of 250 numbered copies. A fine copy of her rare first book. Barbara Howes (1914 - 1996 ) was an American poet. Her work was published in, Atlantic, Chicago Review, New Directions, New Republic, New Yorker,[4] New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Southern Review, University of Kansas Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review and she was nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.