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Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG. 8vo, 142pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 1000 stated copies of the wrappers edition of this nicely designed Black Sparrow collection. Unmarked copy from the collection of Opal Louis Nations, a little sunning at spine.
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Ford, Charles Henri. Flag of ecstasy; selected poems. Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
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Condition: Very Good
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Seller: BookResQ., West Valley City, UT, U.S.A.
Ford, Charles Henri. Flag of ecstasy; selected poems. Black Sparrow Press, 1972.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Pbk 1972 by Black Sparrow Pres. No indication of edition or printing. Unmarked text, clean interior. Sticker inside front cover. Light surface wear on covers, mainly on rear.
Seller: Amazing Books Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.
Ford, Charles Henri. FLAG OF ECSTASY: Selected Poems. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1972.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Edited by Edward B. Germain. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. Purple end papers. 139 pages. Remains of sticker on front cover. No names or marks.
Seller: Waugh Books, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of three copies specially bound and designated for the printer, binder, and publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by author on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-139,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A substantial collection of poems by the editor of the Surrealist magazine View. Many of these first appeared in the pages of Caravel, Blues, New Directions, VVV, Transition, and The Virginia Spectator. "He creates the wonder, the wit, and the erotic beauty that have made surrealism the most significant of all modern influences upon poetry" (From the introduction). Morrow and Cooney 119c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
FORD, Charles Henri. Flag of Ecstasy. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow (1972), 1972.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: One of 200 numbered copies signed and numbered by the author. A fine copy in orange printed paper boards with cloth spine and paper label. Ford was a major figure in post-War Surrealist circles and longtime friend of Pavel Tchelitchew.
Seller: Elysium Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.