About this title: Nearly twenty years ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Maxine Kumin transplanted her urban family to an overgrown New Hampshire farm. Her latest prose work, a graceful and appealing blend of ten essays and eight stories, grew from the exertions and exhilarations of country living. Now a consummate horsewoman, Kumin here revels in the long-awaited birth of a foal; the rehabilitation of an abused mare; and such daily pleasures as the antics of Rilke, "the Poet's Dog, " and the tactile beauty of home-grown vegetables. Kumin also muses on the process of writing, as inspired by the natural rhythms ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Date Published: 1994-08
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good+ jacket. VG+/VG+, mild edgewear to the dust jacket, sticker on front endpaper else interior clean, binding tight. read more
Description: Good. Light shelf wear and minimal interior marks. Millions of satisfied customers and climbing. Thriftbooks is the name you can trust, guaranteed. Spend Less. Read More. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A. : W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1994
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Hard Cover. Poor/Excellent. First Edition. Ex-Library. ISBN: 0393036553. Contains 8 short stories and 10 essays. THE BOOK IS SPLIT IN HALF. The pages are all intact and attached tightly to pastedowns. read more
Binding: S Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ontario Review Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780865380844ISBN:0865380848
Description: As New. Tight, mint condition, good as new book. Appears never to have been read. Clean, lustrous cover, perfect spine and solid binding. Penned by a winner of the Aiken and Pulitzer prizes for Poetry--you'll shimmy ecstatically when this book gets to you! ! ! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-8"-9" Tall. A clean, crisp copy. Lower corners slightly rubbed. 299 pp. Dust jacket in new mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, New York, NY
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Fine-/Fine-DJ/Fine. 0-393-03655-3. read more
Edition: Not Stated
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Ontario Review Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780865380844ISBN:0865380848
Description: Near Fine. Essays. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Refelctions of living in New Hampshire and other lands. This book is in near fine condition and appears unread. There is a name and year written on the inside of the front cover. read more
Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Essays. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Refelctions of living in New Hampshire and other lands. This book is in near fine condition and appears unread. The dust jacket is also in near fine condition, is not price clipped and is in new clear protective covering. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover; First Printing
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Hardcover. W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Near Fine Book in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Price clipped. Light shelf wear to Book and Jacket. Overall, a clean and tight copy to add to a collection or read and enjoy. Dust Jacket protected with a new removable archival protector. Bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. read more
Edition: FIRST EDITION
Binding: Yellow Boards, Green Cloth
Publisher: Norton, New York
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780393036558ISBN:0393036553
Description: As New in As New jacket. Hardcover KUMIN, MAXINE. WOMEN, ANIMALS, AND VEGETABLES, NORTON, NEW YORK, 1994. First Edition. yellow boards, green cloth spine, black initinals on front cover, white lettering on spine. Essays and Stories. 299pages, AS NEW/AS NEW. read more
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