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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Robert Francis; Alan James Robinson (illus.), Butter Hill and Other Poems, 1984

Robert Francis; Alan James Robinson (illus.)

Butter Hill and Other Poems, 1984
Scarsdale, NY: Ardsley Press
One of 400 copies, signed by Francis, Robinson, and Richard Wilbur. This is the artist's copy, inscribed by him to Wilbur at the frontispiece. With an additional print of the frontispiece laid in, this also signed and numbered out of 100.
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Robert Francis; Alan James Robinson (illus.), Butter Hill and Other Poems, 1984
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Octavo. (30)pp. Wilbur's introduction sets up Francis as a master technician in poetic detachment and the herald of a new, more intimate and more urgent, style of imagism. Bound in...
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Octavo. (30)pp. Wilbur's introduction sets up Francis as a master technician in poetic detachment and the herald of a new, more intimate and more urgent, style of imagism. Bound in tan paper wrappers with brown thread. Fine. Housed in four-flap chemise.
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