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Poetry & drama
Stet
Peter Reading
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- Author
- Peter Reading
- Publisher
- Martin Secker & Warburg Limited
- Year
- 1986
- Binding
- Paperback
- Dust jacket
- No
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN
- 0436409895
About this copy
Peter Reading is one of Britain's most technically inventive poets, and Stet is his most sustained and provocative book, built around the printer's proofreading mark that tells a typesetter to ignore a deletion. Reading's sardonic, unflinching verse takes on the hard things most poets avoid, and it has earned praise from Blake Morrison, Peter Porter and P.J. Kavanagh. Reading, born in 1946, won the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry and the first Dylan Thomas Award.
A handsome paperback first published in 1986, with the original printed wraparound cover bearing a striking red-and-cream design and an author portrait. The copy carries a dedicatory inscription dated February 1989.
Condition
- Book
- Good. The binding is sound and the pages are clean with light age toning. Light wear to the cover edges and corners, and an ink inscription on the title page.
A pre-owned book; any wear beyond that described is minor and in keeping with its age.
Collector's notes
- A striking first paperback of one of Britain's most admired modern poets.
- Published by Martin Secker & Warburg, London, 1986.
- Copyright page reads 'First published in England 1986'.
- Original cover price £5.95 net.
- Dedicatory inscription dated February 1989 (inscriber not the author).
A lovely copy, ready for its next reader.
This is a pre-owned book. Please look at every photograph: they show its true condition.
