August Evening with Trumpet – Harry Humes
NF Paperback

Description

For sale is a  Near Fine first paperback edition, first printing of August Evening with Trumpet by Harry Humes. First Edition stated, 2004 University of Arkansas Press. First Printing with no subsequent printing.

The exterior of the paperback edition is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright covers with no creases, mild surface wear, strong title on a square spine, clean page blocks, a tight binding with no spine cracks, strong spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with three partial creases on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.

From its first poem, “String,” with its mythic overtones to the final “The Movement of Ice,” August Evening with Trumpet deals with the varieties of surprise and mystery, pain and wonder in the human experience. In constant motion, this collection ranges across a broad landscape, one in which trout swim through a house, where a coal miner father on vacation digs clams, where an old mother refuses help as she walks a narrow plank across a brook, and where in the quietly moving “Late November,” the speaker releases a raccoon from a leg-hold steel trap.

Small volume ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.