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WAKOSKI, Diane.. Greed: Parts One and Two.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1968.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 23 pp. Near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. Designed and printed by Alan Brilliant and Noel Young. Morrow & Cooney 27b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Diane Wakoski. Greed: Parts One and Two. Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by Diane Wakoski to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing on the first free end page. Signed again at the back on the colophon page. First edition sewn in paper wrapper. Number 169 from an edition of 300 copies. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Sewn binding is sturdy. Covers show some light wear around the corners and at the head and base of the spine.
Seller: Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. Greed: Parts One and Two. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1968.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 23 pages. First edition, first printing. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Wakoski. Fine book in wrappers. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy. Very clean and tight. One of 250 numbered copies. This is copy number 177. Signed by the author. = All books are shipped with Delivery Confirmation. = We have been selling Used Books for over 27 years.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. Greed Parts I & II. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: signed & numbered limited edition handbound hard back bound in wrappers "This is copy No. 79"
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane.. Greed. Parts one and two.. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press., 1968.
Price: US$192.86 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 16 x 24 cm. 23 pages. Original Softcover in paper wrapper. Very good+ condition. Signed and numbered by the author on the edition page. Number 206 of 300 printed copies. Minor edge wear on the wrapper. Sprache: english.
Seller: Inanna Rare Books Ltd., Skibbereen, CORK, Ireland
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Each volume the Deluxe Issue: Greed, Parts One and Two is publisher John Martin's copy (one of four); Greed, Parts 3 and 4, Parts 5-7, Parts 8, 9, 11, and The Collected Greed, Parts 1-13 are all the Binder's Copies (each being one of four to six specially designated copies). Five octavo volumes (23.5cm-24.75cm); volumes 1-2 are bound in pictorial paper-covered boards, with title labels mounted to spines; volumes 3-5 in pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrips, with title labels mounted to spines; original paper or acetate dustjackets, as issued; [6],7-23,[1]pp; [8],9-29,[5]; [ii],[6],7-46,[6]; [8],9-50,[6]; [ii],[6],7-248,[4]pp. All volumes signed by Wakoski, with the final three volumes bearing a holograph poem tipped in. First volume has a touch of foxing to upper board edges and to right edge of textblock; Near Fine. Remaining volumes are uniformly Fine in lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjackets. An attractive set of Wakoski's long poem, published in five volumes over a 16 year period. "I decided I wanted to write a long, preachy, didactic poem, using personal and trivial details, names of people, and even gossipy hearsay. I wanted to pontificate about life, to moralize, and yet somehow to write a poem which would have a nobility to it. I decided that I would write this long poem in four parts, call it GREED, and hope that it wouldn't be too controversial or difficult for John [Martin] to want to publish.I do not know if there are still more parts to follow "Part 13," which ends this book, or whether "Part 10" will ever be written. Once I had gone beyond "Part 4," I wanted an open-ended poem that I could spend the rest of my life writing if I wanted to. And I still think, in that sense, that GREED remains open-ended, even though with the completion of "Part 13" I am quite ready for a COLLECTED GREED" (preface to The Collected Greed, pp.7-9). Morrow & Cooney 27b, 69c, 101c, 145c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.