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Regarding Wave
$350.00
Snyder, Gary
New Directions: New York, 1970. First edition.
Signed, located and dated in the year following publication, inscribed to the leader of the student-run Writer in Residence program at University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Snyder has also added an original drawing of a small animal.
Offsetting from laid in newsprint to title and opposite page, scant edgewear to spine tips, small spot top front board, otherwise a fine, tight and unread copy in fine, priced dust wrapper. A very fresh copy.
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