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Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1971.
Price: US$9.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book is in FINE condition. Pages are clean and bright with NO marks, writing or underlining. Original price sticker adhesive remnant on front cover. Limited edition of 1000 printed copies. Red pictorial wrapper in fine condition. Early work by the great American poet.
Seller: shadowandstregabooks, Skokie, IL, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Morrow & Cooney 107a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Paperback Book. 9 x 6 inches. First Printing (no edition or print number behind title page).120 pages.FINE. Binding firm and square without stress creasing. All corners pointed but for slight curl to bottom right. Slight age toning to spine and text block. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed.
Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.
Clayton, Eshleman. ALTARS. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo; 120 pages; The book is well taken care of.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Description: Poetry 120 Very good. Owner's signature in ink inside.
Seller: Pacific Rim Used Books LLC, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton.. ALTARS.. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles., 1971.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Description: 9.25 x 6, wraps, 120 pp, spine slightly darkened else ok. FIRST ED, ONE OF 1000 COPIES. THIS COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR WITH MINOR DECORATION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Red pictorial wrappers. Near fine with bottom corners lightly bumped. One of 1000 copies. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 120 p. Audience: General/trade. Early poems by Eshleman. Very good. Slight tilt to spine. Light wear to wraps. First edition. First Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, 1971, 1971.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing The poet Clayton Eshleman had a long relationship with reader and book collector Richard Levasseur which shows in Eshleman's often elaborate inscriptions to Levasseur and Richard's partner. A lovely association copy. Fine bright decorative wraps with crisp bright text. Affectionately inscribed and signed on full title page
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Top egde foxed, else near fine in printed wrappers. Bound in slightly darker red wrappers, due to a paper shortage. One of 40 copies thus. First trade paperback printing, second issue.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #27 of 200 copies numbered and signed by the poet on limitation page at rear. Red paper backed boards with purple and white linen spine and purple endpapers. The binding is tight, corners sharp. Touch of rubbing to tail. A small indentation to top edge of text block affecting the first few endpapers only. Text is unmarked. Acetate wrapper shows light rubbing. 8vo. 120pp.
Seller: Chaparral Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
ESHLEMN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Eshleman.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. ALTARS. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Description: Red illustrated wrappers; 8vo. 120 pp. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed and inscribed by the poet to poet Ted Enslin and his wife in LA in 1971. Minor wear, but top edge dusty, front edge a bit foxed, and about very good. A very nice association.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, 1971, 1971.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing Lovely copy. Fine bright in as issued acetate cover. Limited edition in hardcover, and this is number 108, fully signed by Clayton Eshleman on the colophon page
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1971.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of two hundred signed and numbered copies, this copy also inscribed on the title-page "for Sam Yellen with/ love & gratitude,/ Clayton Eshleman/ Xmas 1971". Acetate dust jackets has two edge tears and missing a piece across the top of rear panel.
Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1971.
Price: US$44.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is number 165 of 200 hardcover copies SIGNED and numbered by the author on the limitations page. Handout from the publisher laid in. Ships same or next business day. Pages are lightly tanned, some foxing on head edge, slightly faded on spine, minor edge wear; otherwise, free from major defect. In publisher's acetate jacket. Jacket has minor shelf wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 120 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Eshleman. Morrow & Cooney 107c.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. ALTARS. Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1971.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press. 1971. Limited, signed edition, No. 32 of 200 copies, signed/numbered on the Colophon page. 120pp. Hardcover with acetate dust jacket. A very good copy. Bottom edge points gently bumped. Internally clean, free of pervious owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lightly shelfworn, with a small tear to top rear spine edge, othewise in very good condition.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Small quarto. Decorative cloth spine with pictorial paper-covered boards. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine publisher's acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author, this being number 2.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Eshelman. "Compliments of the Publisher" card laid in. Morrow & Cooney 107c.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 120pp; printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies in paper wrappers, this copy is warmly inscribed by Eshleman (signed "Clayton") to a fellow poet at the time of publication.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton.. ALTARS.. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles., 1971.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: 9.5 x 6.25, cloth backed boards, 120 pp, vg in mylar dw. ONE OF 200 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. ALSO INSCRIBED WITH DECORATION OF FRAMING ON DEDICATION PAGE, WITH A WARM ADDITIONAL NOTE ON FLAP THAT WASN'T CUT CORRECTLY WHEN BOUND.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Altars. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tall octavo. Clothbacked papercovered boards. Fine in a somewhat rubbed, near fine acetate dust jacket. Copy I of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Eshleman on the title page, and with a holograph poem ("from the first draft of The Phom[?]," 1969) facing the title page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Altars [Deluxe Edition, Signed]. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1971.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies signed by the author, this being copy 'Q'. Octavo; printed paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 120,[4]pp. An original holograph poem by the author is written opposite the title page ("From the first draft for Aries"). Fine in a sligtly wavy, Near Fine dustjacket.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Altars.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1971.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 120 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Eshleman. As in the lettered issue of this title, there is an original holograph poem by Eshleman penned opposite the title page.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Altars (Inscribed to artist R B Kitaj). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1971.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Decorated cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 120 pp. First edition. One of 200 specially bound copies and SIGNED by the poet. In addition, Eshleman has INSCRIBED this copy to artist Ron Kitaj and has dated his inscription in 1971, the year of publication. A fine copy in acetate wrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.