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Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$7.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper covers mild wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 2 marks on bottom edge; interior is clean and unmarked; 147 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. Promotional broadside printed in two colors that measures 10" wide by 14" high. Published in advance of a book of poems by Eshleman. A very fine copy.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Coils.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 147 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers with light toning to spine. Morrow & Cooney 141a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils [FIRST EDITION]. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, CA, 1973.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Wraps. Minor shelf wear. This is a first edition poetry collection by Black Sparrow Press.
Seller: Uncharted Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade paperback. 1st paperback edition. Inscribed by author on title page. All other pages clean, no marks to any text. Covers are lightly soiled and with a couple of tiny spots. Light sunning to spine. Strong, tight binding.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 147pp, no illustrations. "Coils" is the second Black Sparrow Press collection of poems by Clayton Eshleman. An internally handsome example addtionally bearing the SIGNED INSCRIPTIONS "for Gordon + Virginia - Warmest Wishes - Clayton 1977." and "1977 Birthday. A blue sky on May 1" from the poet's wife Caryl showing a bit of soiling and toning of the cream colored wrappers. Gordon Wagner was a prominent Los Angeles assemblage artist, and a friend of the poet.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 147 p. Audience: General/trade. Poetry by Clayton Eshleman. Very good. Light wear and sun-fade to wraps. First edition. First Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Trade paperback. Some warping to the pages, sunning to the spine, and toning to the wrappers, still a good reading copy. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$24.17 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback in good condition. From the collection of Michael Stephen Cleary, (d. 02.07.2023), former lecturer at Kingsway College and SOAS, University of London. Ownership penned to free paper. General shelf and handling wear; notable tanning to cover and pageblock, with occasional blemish, and light creasing to edges and corners. Content is in fine condition, pages tightly bound, text unmarked. CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Coils.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 124 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Eshleman. Morrow & Cooney 141b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. About fine with cream printed wrappers lightly toned. Poetry.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing The poet Clayton Eshleman had a long relationship with reader and collector Richard Levasseur which shows in Eshleman's often elaborate inscriptions to Levasseur and Richard's partner. A lovely association copy. Close to fine and bright stiff wraps with crisp bright text.
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton.. COILS.. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles nd (1973?), 1973.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: Book promotion poetry broadside, 14 x 10, a bit faded with numerous fold marks. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED TO RICHARD AARON BY ESHLEMAN IN 1974.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Coils.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 147 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Eshleman on the dedication page, "This copy for Blazek / CE. / 1985." Morrow & Cooney 141a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Broadside. Measuring 10" x 14". Light wear at the edges, near fine. One of an unnumbered Signed edition. This is number 40. Black Sparrow Broadside/Flyer No. 5.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1973.
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. 147, [5]; title page printed in green, red, and orange; wrappers slightly toned else near fine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.00 + shipping
Description: [One of 100 signed copies]. Broadside, 36cm x 26cm. Printed in red and black on yellow sheet. Horizontal fold (as issued?); else Fine. Prints the poem "The Physical Traveller" from Eshleman's collection Coils; commentary by Gary Snyder below text. Signed in ink and numbered by Eshleman at bottom margin. Issued as Black Sparrow Broadside/Flyer no. 5. No printed limitation statement, but according to Morrow: "100 copies of [the promotional broadside] were numbered and signed by the author." MORROW [Bibliography of the Black Sparrow Press] 141. BRUCCOLI III:106 (noting that the broadside precedes the book).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. COILS. Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press. 1976. 147pp. Limited edition of 200 copies, signed and numbered (#56) on colophon page. Yellow boards are lightly soiled at edges and pages edges are slightly age-toned. Otherwise a very good, clean copy with a very good acetate dust wrapper.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Coils.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 147 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Eshleman on the title page, "for Carl and Leah Rakosi, / in the pleasure of our / meeting in Los Angeles / March 1975 / Clayton Eshleman."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils (Signed. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 147 pp. A book of poems. One of 200 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. A handsome very good example in clear acetate wrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. COILS. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Large 8vo, pp. 147. One of 200 hardcover copies, numbered and signed by the author. Paper over boards, with cloth spine. Fine in slightly scuffed acrylic dj. Poems.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton.. Coils.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 147 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket (rubbed). One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Eshleman. Additionally this copy dated (August 1977) and SIGNED by Eshleman on the title page, where he has copies out the whole of his seventeen line poem, "Brief Hymn to the Body Electric." Morrow & Cooney 141b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Aa very nice copy - in mint condition. This is copy #182 of 200 created in this format.
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket with rubbing. Copy 2 of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, 1973, 1973.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing The poet Clayton Eshleman had a long relationship with reader and collector Richard Levasseur which shows in Eshleman's often elaborate inscriptions to Levasseur and Richard's partner.Signed on the full title page and also fully signed by Clayton Eshleman on the colophon page. Number 125 of only 200 copies. Fine and bright boards and lovely in issued acetate dustjacket. A lovely association copy.
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in paper-covered boards with a spine label and acetate dust jacket with light rubbing. Number 12 of 200 numbered copies signed by Eshleman.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Eshleman, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1973.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Presentation copy. INSCRIBED by author on first blank page, "This copy of COILS for Mel Edelstein with warmest wishes for his life out thar in Washington. Clayton Eshleman March 1973." This is number 107 of 200 hardcover copies that have been numbered and SIGNED by author on limitation page. Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly skewed, moderate edge wear, lightly tanned on edges of boards and pages, tiny dent on tail edge of back board. In publisher's acetate jacket. Jacket has minor edge and shelf wear, crease on top corner of front flap. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 147 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tall octavo. Clothbacked papercovered boards. Binding trifle sunned, about fine in a somewhat rubbed, near fine acetate dust jacket. Copy 0 of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Eshleman on the title page, and with a holograph poem ("But I am not a Christian," 1965) bound in after the title page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
ESHLEMAN, Clayton. Coils. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tall octavo. Clothbacked papercovered boards. Fine in a somewhat rubbed, near fine acetate dust jacket. Copy A of 26 lettered copies, Signed by Eshleman on the title page, and with a holograph poem ("re. Vallejo's Gate," 1965) bound in after the title page.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.34 + shipping
Description: No. 3 of only 5 Author's Presentation copies flat-signed by Clayton Eshleman to colophon, further signed/dated (Feb 1973) to prelims with dedication to Oreste Pucciani; Association material (loose-inserted) includes a folded greeting card, with hand-written missive from Eshleman to Pucciani describing his (and wife Caryl's) first few days in Paris, where they lived for a year and where Eshleman first encountered the Lascaux Caves which were to have a lasting influence on his writing, eventually resulting in a major work 'Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination and the Construction of the Underworld' (2003); a stapled, typed copy of Eshleman's essay 'Adhesive Love' with hand-written covering note to Pucciani dated 23 March '73 - this essay appears the next year in 'Realignment Poems and an Essay by Clayton Eshleman'; finally there is a sheaf of 5 typed poems by Rand J Paradis (for whom i can find no reference, but assume to be a student of Eshleman, who was also teaching American Poetry at the time); the poems in Coils represent the formalisation of a decade's work, being a re-edited version of the epic 350 poem sequence 'The Tsuruginomiya Regeneration', begun in 1964; Oreste Pucciani was a noted teacher at UCLA who pioneered Sartre's philosophy in the US, he was the last partner of fashion designer Rudi Hernreich; half decorative red cloth with title label to spine, papered sides with titling to front, and with original acetate dustwrapper; Very Good throughout; some stains to rear board; acetate dw rubbed. acetate dustwrapper. 147pp. 8vo. Very Good in Good dustwrapper
Seller: Gotcha By The Books, Brisbane, QLD, Australia