Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$54.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1a Edición////With drawings by Kurt Seligmann.//Dedicatoria de anterior propietario. Cubierta levemente decolorada en márgenes; por lo demás buen estado.//26x18. Sin paginar.//Poesía
Seller: Librería El Astillero, Colindres, CANTB, Spain
Stevens, Wallace. A Primitive Like an Orb. Banyan Press, New York, 1948.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This copy is one of 500 copies issued; with drawings by Kurt Seligmann; very good in softcover; small tears to edges; ALL ORDERS SHIPPED WITH DELIVERY CONFIRMATION; Size: 7 x 10"
Seller: P.C. Schmidt, Bookseller, Kettering, OH, U.S.A.
Stevens, Wallace. A Primitive Like an Orb. Banyan Press, 1948.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First Edition. One of 500 copies issued. Ex library copy with the usual markings. Minor staining on the edges of the pages. One of the top corners was folded in.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Softcover. Includes a poem by Stevens and two illustrations by Seligmann. Printed in an edition of 500 copies. An about very good copy in string tied wrappers with some fading to the edges, a tiny tear to the edge of the front panel and some other minor wear. Still, a very nice copy of a fragile book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Stevens, Wallace. A PRIMITIVE LIKE AN ORB. Gotham Book Mart, New York, 1948.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: One of 500 copies, this issue in olive green sewn wraps; small 4to. A ninety-six line poem, with drawings on Zebu paper by Kurt Seligmann. Printed at the Banyan Press in Pawlet, Vt on Etruria paper. About very good, spine and edges faded, Yapp edges worn, a touch of spotting to the back covers. Edelstein A13.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edelstein A 13. "Binding: Semistiff wove paper wrapper, watermarked. Three variations in the color of the wrappers can be identified. " (This copy is in orange wrappers). " Published June 17, 1948, at $1.25, in an edition of 500 copies. Prospero pamphlets are edited by Frank A. Hale, John Myers & Dmitri Petrov. This pamphlet, published by the Gotham Book Mart, was designed & printed by the Banyan Press [.] The poem was set by hand in GARAMOND faces & printed on ETRURIA paper, with drawings on ZEBU paper. There are five hundred (unnumbered) copies for sale. " This copy was received by Wallace Stevens from the publisher. Provenance: Wallace Stevens>Elsie Stevens>Holly Stevens. The purchaser will receive a letter of provenance from a Stevens family member. ; A Prospero Pamphlet; 8vo; [11] pages; Edelstein A 13. "Binding: Semistiff wove paper wrapper, watermarked. Three variations in the color of the wrappers can be identified. " (This copy is in orange wrappers). " Published June 17, 1948, at $1.25, in an edition of 500 copies. Prospero pamphlets are edited by Frank A. Hale, John Myers & Dmitri Petrov. This pamphlet, published by the Gotham Book Mart, was designed & printed by the Banyan Press [.] The poem was set by hand in GARAMOND faces & printed on ETRURIA paper, with drawings on ZEBU paper. There are five hundred (unnumbered) copies for sale. " This copy was received by Wallace Stevens from the publisher. Provenance: Wallace Stevens>Elsie Stevens>Holly Stevens. The purchaser will receive a letter of provenance from a Stevens family member.
Seller: Elliot's Books Since 1957, Northford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 10.1 x 7 with olive green paper wrappings. Sewn spine. 96 line poem. One of 500 copies. Prospero pamphet. Designed & printed by Banyan Press in March 1948. Set by hand in Garamond faces. Printed on Etruria paper. Drawings on Zebu paper. Side page edges creased as are bottom edges. About an inch-long closed tear on back cover from side edge. Couple small ink marks on inside back cover. Covers are faded in places to light brown.
Seller: Kazoo Books LLC, Kalamazoo, MI, U.S.A.