Nurture by Kumin Maxine (39 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Very good condition. Minimal wear. All intact. No writing or marking. Not Ex-Library.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

softcover. Condition: Fine copy. 2nd prt. 8vo, 63 pp.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. From the library of William H. Matchett, with his name and the date on the ffep. The poem 'Chores' by Kumin is laid in loose, with a notation presumably made by Matchett. 63 pp., a nice copy with light foxing on the top and fore-edge of the pages, else Very Good with a tight spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG+ in VG+ dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover with minor wear clean and tight. Light foxing to top and front edges of the text block, former owner's name on the front fly leaf, else bright clean and unmarked. Light wear only to the dust jacket, not price-clipped and now protected in a clear archival sleeve.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, first printing. Signed by Kumin on the title page. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Text unmarked. The dust jacket shows some very light handling, unclipped, in a mylar cover. 8vo. x, 63pp. Signed by Author.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Pictorial Wraps; 63 Clean, Unmarked Pages.

paperback. Condition: New.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Stiff unmarked book in crisp covers.; 8.0 X 5.5 X 0.2 inches; 1 pages.

First Edition. First edition. Promotional broadsheet that measures 5.125" x 8.50." Includes the title poem for Kumin's collection of poems. Uncommon ephemera.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, 3rd Printing. Not price-clipped ($10.00 price intact). Published by Viking Penguin, 1989. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York. …

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. dj: none. book: as new trade pbak. signed by author. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A collection of poems. First printing. Remainder mark on top edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. A collection of poems. First printing. Near fine in a near fine (a bit faded) dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. A collection of poems. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

First edition SIGNED. Fine and bright decorative stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Nicely inscribed and fully signed by the poet on the full title page.

Condition: Very Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on laid-in bookplate. In protective mylar cover.

hardcover. Condition: fine copy in fine dust jacket. First Edition. brown cloth w/ dark-brown paper boards; gilt lettering on spine; rust endpapers; 63 pgs; photo-illus dust jacket w/ $17.95 on front flap, author photo by Craig Blouin at back; includes promotional broadside of "Nurture" on postcard stock (8 1/2"x 5 1/8"). jacket design by Pierre LeStat w/ photo by Leonard Lee Rue III.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Trade paperback, 63 pages, at top of first front end paper is a large stamped "USED BOOK." Fine otherwise.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 63 pages ; 21 cm. ; ISBN 9780140586190, 0140586199 ; OCLC 19352352 ; LCCn 89031129 ; LOC No PS3521.U638 N87 1989b ; "First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin . 1989"--T.p. verso. ; Stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Halfway -- Fra?ulein reads instructive rhymes -- 400 meter freestyle -- Casablanca -- A hundred nights -- On being asked to write a poem for the centenary of the Civil War -- The first rain of Spring -- Privilege -- Morning swim -- Sisyphus -- The pawnbroker -- The appointment -- Quarry pigeon cove -- Prothalamion -- Purgatory -- Joppa diary : January 25th, May 10th, June 15th, September 22nd -- The Nightmare Factory -- The presence -- The vealers -- Watering trough -- Hello hello Henry -- Making the Jam without you -- For my great grandfather : message long overdue -- We are -- After love -- The nightmare factory -- Up country -- The hermit wakes to bird sounds -- The hermit meets the skunk -- the hermit picks berries -- Creatures -- Stones -- The dreamer the dream -- Beans -- Mud -- Woodchucks -- House bridge fountain gate -- History lesson -- the thirties revisited -- Sperm -- The deaths of the uncles -- Life's work -- The Jesus infection -- Living alone with Jesus -- To swim to believe -- The selling of the slaves -- In the root cellar -- The mummies -- Song for seven parts of the body -- Heaven as anus -- Young nun at bread loaf -- Amanda is shod -- Amanda dreams she has died and gone to the Elysian Fields -- The agnostic speaks to her horse's hoof eyes -- Thinking of death and dogfood -- The retrieval system -- The longing to be saved -- Address to the angels -- My father's neckties -- Progress report -- The food chain -- The Henry Manley blues -- Birthday poem -- Changing the children -- Seeing the bones -- Sunbathing on a rooftop in Berkeley -- The envelope -- Body and soul a meditation -- How it is -- Splitting wood at six above -- Late snow -- The excrememnt poem -- In April in Princeton -- July against hunger -- The survival poem -- Territory -- How it goes on -- Our ground time here will be brief -- Rejoicing with Henry -- Henry Manley looks back -- Feeding time -- In the pea patch -- Relearning the language of April -- Continuum a love poem -- Family reunion -- Leaving my daughter's house -- February -- Itinerary of an obsession -- Apostrophe to a dead friend -- In memoriam of P.W. Jr. 1921 -- 1980 : the unfinished storey, the incest dream, Out of the body travel, retrospect in the kitchen, the man of many L's -- You are in bear country -- Atlantic City -- The chain -- Introducing the fathers -- Appetite -- Grandchild -- Caring : a dream -- Shopping in Ferney with Voltaire -- At a private showing in 1982 -- In the absence of bliss -- Video cuisine -- How to survive nuclear war -- Getting through -- Out in it -- My elusive guest -- Shelling Jacobs cattle beans -- After the harvest -- The long approach -- Nurture -- With the caribou -- In warm rooms before blue light -- Thoughts of saiving the manatee -- Repent -- Homage to binsey poplars -- Custodian -- Bringing back the trumpeter swan -- The accolade of animals -- Sleeping with animals -- Encounter in August -- Catchment -- On reading an old baedeker in Schloss Leopoldskron -- The festung Salzburg -- Night launch -- Photograph Maryland Agricultural College livestock show -- Photograph U.S. Army Flying School College Park Maryland -- On being asked to write a poem in memory of Anne Sexton -- In the park -- Marianne my mother and me -- A calling -- Turning the garden in middle age -- Reviewing the summer and winter calendar of the next life -- Grappling in the central blue -- The Bangkok gong -- We stood there singing -- Distance -- A game of monopoly in Chavannes ; In these rich, lyrical poems Maxine Kumin brings her perceptive eye and imagination to the contemplation of the natural world. ; FINE. Book. …

First edition With a long impassioned inscription from the former owner. Fine and bright in near fine dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout.

First edition Fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp text throughout. Tiny line to bottom edge.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing (full # line) in original $17.95-priced dust jacket SIGNED by Maxine Kumin to fellow poet Joan La Bombard direct to title page, a Fine First Edition copy signed by the 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner (dj in mylar protector); 8vo; 63pp. Signed by Author.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. 1/2 bound dark brown boards and dark brown cloth-covered spine with gold lettering running along the spine. Clean off-white dust jacket with a photograph of a doe in tall grasses and black lettering on both the front cover and spine. Signed by author, Maxine Kumin, on half-title page. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1989. 63 pages. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A very good copy. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 63 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464875.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, may be reissue. 63pp. Trade paperback. Edges lightly foxed, very good.