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Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$3.99 + shipping
Description: First paperback edition. Clean pages. A nice copy.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Sparrow, 1974.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Date of Publication: 1974, Binding: soft cover, Condition: As New.
Seller: Bookstore Brengelman, cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.
Price: US$5.74 + shipping
Description: Brown wrappers, 87pp. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Valley Books, AMHERST, MA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, United States, 1974.
Price: US$5.95 + shipping
Description: You will receive a paperback book containing THE SCRIPT. Some shelf wear to the covers. Good binding and the text flows clearly. Enjoy this reliable edition.
Seller: The Yard Sale Store, Narrowsburg, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.80 X 5.80 X 0.60 inches; 90 pages
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974, 1974.
Price: US$6.95 + shipping
Description: First edition Near fine illustrated stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text throughout. First edition first printing
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$7.97 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.4
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
OATES, JOYCE CAROL. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good+ soft cover, no creases, clean, bright & tight, no markings. Size approx 6x9 with 87 pages including scenes from original production in NYC in 1973. 1st soft cover printing.
Seller: Ann Wendell, Bookseller, Oroville, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$8.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 7000 shelf. Unread. Slim trade paperback, tan covers. No names, clean text. With b/w photos. Collectible condition! 87 p.
Seller: Gil's Book Loft, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.
Price: US$9.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 87pp + short biography. Photo scenes from the play. First editiion after a limited edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$9.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 87, [4] pages + plates. Fantasy-farce in 12 scenes. (wrinkling and soiling to upper cover). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: EKER BOOKS, bryantown, MD, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol.. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: 87 pp. Fine in printed wrappers.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. First paperback ediion, with tile pag in color. Light wear to cover. NO marks in text; binding is tight. A very nice copy. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$11.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. [92]pp. Wrappers, fine condition. Softcover issue of the First Trade Edition. Illustrated. ISBN 0876852134; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: V2
Seller: Voyageur Book Shop, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$18.75 + shipping
Description: pp. 87.,8vo,Larger format pb - minor scuffing to covers, else vg,
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
OATES, JOYCE CAROL. Miracle Play (1974). Black Sparrow Pr., 1974.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Like new. Unread, unused. Illustrated Paper wraps. Soft cover. American First. Some edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining. Illustrated with black and white performances of scenes from the play.
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$19.94 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good, decent condition. Wear along edges and corners. Book is flat, tight and clean.
Seller: Downtown Atlantis Books, EVANSTON, IL, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some edge wear to card covers; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; illustrated with black and white performances of scenes from the play.
Seller: Hourglass Books, vancouver, BC, Canada
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press 1974, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition #235/350 and signed by the author ed. hardback fine condition in printed boards with a cloth spine and an acetate jacket - the jacket has a tear
Seller: Wonderland Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 1/1000 trade copies. VG or maybe near fine in an acetate jacket that has some tears.
Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in an about fine original unprinted acetate dust jacket with slight rubbing. One of 1000 hardcover copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. [92]pp. Quarter brown cloth & pattern paper boards, paper spine label, acetate dj. Fine condition. Printed by Noel Young & Edwards Brothers Inc, designed by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray. Illustrated with 12 reproduced photographs from the play. First Trade Edition. 1000 copies printed. Morrow & Cooney 195b: 1291 copies were actually printed.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr May 1974, 1974.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Heavy dust stains on top text edge. Mylar dj has a small tear. Binding tight no interior marks one of 1000 copies.
Seller: Hennessey + Ingalls, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974., 1974.
Price: US$21.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First printing. 1-1000 copies. 8vo. 87 pp. Illustrated with B & W photographs. Original binding. This is a tight, fine book in a fine clear acetate DJ.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr, Los Angeles, USA, 1974.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: One of 1,000 limited editions. Protected in a new archival dust jacket. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Hollow n Hill Books, Yellville, AR, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 87. Illustrated with photographs from the play. Wraps. VG.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol.. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: 87 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies. Lacks dust jacket.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
OATES.JOYCE CAROL. MIRACLE PLAY.. LOS ANGELES.: BLACK SPARROW PRESS. 1974, 1974.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fine. First Thus. SIGNED BY OATES.LIMITED EDITION(213/1000)SPECIAL PRINTING OF THE PLAY "MIRACLE PLAY" BY OATES.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr, 1974.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Published by Black Sparrow Press, 1973. Octavo. Pictorial boards with blue endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Publisher's acetate dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 87 pages. ISBN: 0876852142. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
Seller: Southampton Books, Southampton, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Sparrow Pr, 1974.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Ex-library hardcover. Has a few library marks. Pocket removed from rear pastedown. Binding is holding fine.
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Trade paperback. Lightly tanned, else near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 1000 hardcover copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol.. MIRACLE PLAY.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974., 1974.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED first edition - First printing, a trade paperback issued simultaneously with hardcover edition and limited edition. Includes 12 pages of photographs from the original production of this play. SIGNED on the title page. 87 pp plus colophon. Near fine condition.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. FINE- in printed paper covered boards and an acetate jacket, as issued. Stamped on the front free end paper in tiny font are the letters: T.B.C. NOT remainder marked. NOT faded. NOT book club edition. NOT ex-library.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Black and white illustrations. A few spots on the front board thus very good. Copy number 136 of 350 copies specially bound and Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol.. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 87 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 195c.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY - LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Issue, one of 300 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.23. Octavo (23cm); decorative paper-covered boards and orange cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; light blue endpapers; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [14],15-87,[5]pp. Some wear to front cover, foxing on edges, base of rear cover, and front endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket has wear throughout and tear on front panel, Very Good. Oates's play, "first presented by the New Phoenix Repertory Company at the Playhouse II Theatre, 359 West 48 Street, New York City, on December 30, 1973." Morrow & Cooney 195c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine first paperback printing, inscribed by Oates on free front end paper. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Slight wear to top of front cover. Slight rubbing to back cover. A great inscribed first paperback printing by the American writer.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: THIS COPY IS #13 OF 350 COPIES HANDBOUND IN BOARDS BY EARLE GRAY NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated with b/w photographs. . Orange cloth spine with paper title. Interior of text is tight, clean & intact. Text protected with a mylar cover. Theatre, Play; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Very, clean, tight book, transparent dustjacket fine. 8vo. 87pp. Orange-cloth-backed pictorial paper boards. #92 of a signed, limited edition of 350.
Seller: 12th Street Books, ABAA, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by the Author on the title page. limited edition of 1000 copies.
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good hardcover in colored cloth boards with acetate dj as issued (slight soiling to upper spine and to upper left edge of front board). Limited Edition of 350 copies signed by author (this is copy # 264).
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 295 of 350 copies & signed by the author on the limitation page. Octavo bound in orange cloth and paper-covered boards. B&W illustrations. Condition: publisher-issued clear acetate DJ a bit cloudy with small edge-tear; else fine in very good DJ. 87 pages.
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
Joyce Carol Oates. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good first edition signed by Joyce Carol Oates on the title page. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some very light wear to edges. Some discoloration to bottom left of front cover. Small glue residue to top right of front cover. Some discoloration to back cover. Remainder mark to bottom of textblock. A nice first edition copy signed by Joyce Carol Oates.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 225/300 signed and numbered. Also presentation copy signed on title page. Clear wrapper and boards very good. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.3 inches; 90 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards, acetate d.w. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First Edition. Number 154 of 350 handbound copies, signed by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$50.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: HPB-Red, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: One of 350 copies handbound by Earle Gray in quarter orange cloth and paper covered boards numbered and signed by the author in the original acetate dust jacket. MORROW & COONEY 195.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, the deluxe limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Oates on the limitation page of a total 1350 hardcover copies. Copy #140. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Dustwrapper with chipped spine topedge. Fine condition in a Very Good dustwrapper. A play in twelve scenes first presented in NYC in Dec. 1973. Cast included Robert Guillaume, Marcella Lowery, F. Murray Abraham, et al.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. [92]pp. Quarter orange cloth, pattern paper boards, paper spine label, acetate dj. Fine condition. Printed by Noel Young & Edwards Brothers Inc., designed by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray. Illustrated with 12 reproduced photographs from the play. #125 of 350 Signed by Oates - the lower number in red ink but the higher limitation number not recorded - perhaps unknown by the publisher when signed by Oates. Morrow & Cooney 195c: 300 issued in this binding signed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hard cover, 4to, in quarter orange linen over printed decorative tan paper-covered boards designed by Barbara Martin, bound by bookbinder Earle Gray, the titles in blue and black to the front board, with an applied tan paper label to the spine, printed in black. With the original plastic dust wrapper. Light blue paste downs, A Deluxe Limited Edition, signed by Author. Collophon at rear, numbered 189 of 350 copies. Printed by Noel Young and Edwards Brothers, Inc. Illustrated with full page black and white photo reproductions of the play's first performance in 1973 by the New Phoenix Repertory Company in New York. Playwrite, poet, novelist and essayist Joyce Carol Oates (b. 1938) has been recognized throughout a long career for prolific versatility shown in many genres of writing, and described by the National Endowment for the Humanities as one of the U.S.'s leading women of letters. **The play is a gritty portrayal of one poor black woman's struggle against a pervasive environment of violence and exploitation. She steals drugs from her heroin-pushing boyfriend, opening her family to further acts of retribution and injustice. Deluxe Limited Edition, Signed by Author.
Seller: Dark and Stormy Night Books, Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr, 1974.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1000c copies with plain brown spine. Signed and inscribed to a person with very best wishes on end paper . Thick plastic cover with tears and chips. ; 9.3 X 6.3 X 0.3 inches; Signed by Author
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 87pp.This is a special limited signed and hand numbered printing of 50 copies of which this is #16. Published in a smaller format than the larger edition of 350. Fine copy in original acetate dust jacket which has a folded corner. In original slipcase that is faded at front edge.
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Pr, 1974.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: # 41 0f 350 in this handbound special edition. SIGNED by Joyce Carol Oates and numbered on the colophon. This copy is FINE in a FINE clear acetate DJ. Hints of rubbing at bottom spine ends, otherwise pristine.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Thin 8vo, cloth backed boards, acetate d.w. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1974. First Edition. One of 1000 hard-bound copies. This one has an inscription from Oates on the flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, the deluxe limited issue of 350 numbered copies signed by Oates on the limitation page of a total 1350 hardcover copies. Copy #297. Quarter-cloth with printed spine label and paper-covered boards in plastic dustwrapper. Design by Barbara Martin. Production photographs by James Tilton. Small chip on dustwrapper spine topedge. Fine condition in a Near Fine dustwrapper. A play in twelve scenes first presented in NYC in Dec. 1973. Cast included Robert Guillaume, Marcella Lowery, F. Murray Abraham, et al.
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardbound book in clear acetate wrapper. An 87 pp play by Oates. Illustrated with photographs. One of 350 SIGNED copies. A near fine example in clear acetate wrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. 8vo. [92]pp. Quarter black, yellow, and white pattern cloth, pattern paper boards, acetate dj, in brown paper slipcase. Fine condition, small chip in the acetate at the foot of the spine panel. Printed by Noel Young & Edwards Brothers Inc., designed by Barbara Martin, bound by Earle Gray. Illustrated with 12 reproduced photographs from the play. Signed by Oates on the colophon but without any inked limitation. Morrow & Cooney 195d describes this exact binding as being Signed by Oates and limited to 50 copies for sale. The lower limitation not identified in the colophon. This copy is signed by Oates, but the limitation number is not recorded in red ink - forgotten either by Oates or the publisher. This copy was purchased by this seller soon after it was published and has a $50 price in pencil on front free endpaper appropriate for the lower limitation number unrecorded in this copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 92 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol.. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 87 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket and fine publisher's slipcase. This copy matches the deluxe issue, and is SIGNED by Oates on the colophon, but is not numbered.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A fine copy in near fine publisher's acetate dust jacket with two small tears at the crown. Limited to 350 numbered copies handbound in boards signed by Oates.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY (SIGNED LIMITED EDITION). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is a special limited printing of 50 copies of which this is #42. Published in a smaller format than the larger edition of 350. Near fine signed and in slipcase. Text protected in a mylar cover. B/W Photograph illustrations. Drama, Theatre; B/W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 87 pages
Seller: Nick Bikoff, IOBA, Fairfield, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardbound book in clear acetate wrapper. An 87 pp play by Oates. Illustrated with photographs. One of 50 specially bound and SIGNED copies. A near fine example in clear acetate wrapper. Housed ina hard slipcase.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. BLACK SPARROW, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED BY OATES; #6/50 DELUXE FIRST EDITION FINE
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed issue, limited to 350 numbered copies handbound in boards signed by Joyce Carol Oates, #64. 87pp. 8vo. A fine copy in fine publisher's acetate dust jacket First edition, signed issue, limited to 350 numbered copies handbound in boards signed by Joyce Carol Oates, #64.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1974.
Price: US$125.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed paper covered boards with matching patterned cloth spine in excellent condition, clear acetate jacket which has a chip to one corner, contents bright, 91pp, number 11 from a special edition of 50, signed by the author and housed in a slipcase Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
OATES, Joyce Carol.. Miracle Play.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 87 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket and fine publisher's slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Oates. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine original acetate dustwrapper and fine slipcase. Copy number 28 of 50 copies in slipcase and Signed by the author, bound differently than the larger limitation issue of 350 copies. This smaller series of 50 copies, not identified in the colophon, is understandably uncommon.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. MIRACLE PLAY - DELUXE ISSUE, SIGNED. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 10 copies specially bound, each signed by the author. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and brown paper-covered slipcase; 87,[5]pp; illus. Fine in a Fine dustjacket and slipcase. Handsome edition of Oates's play, "first presented by the New Phoenix Repertory Company at the Playhouse II Theatre, 359 West 48 Street, New York City, on December 30, 1973." Morrow & Cooney 195d.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by author on colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); decorative paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and brown paper-covered slipcase; [14],15-87,[5]pp, with 12 plates of featuring stills from the stage production. Fine in a Fine dustjacket and slipcase. Oates's play, "first presented by the New Phoenix Repertory Company at the Playhouse II Theatre, 359 West 48 Street, New York City, on December 30, 1973." Morrow and Cooney 195d.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 50 copies specially bound and Signed by Oates.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Oates, Joyce Carol. Miracle play. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$169.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good
Seller: dsmbooks, liverpool, United Kingdom
OATES, Joyce Carol. Miracle Play. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1974.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in fine original acetate dustwrapper with a little scuff. One of 1000 hardbound copies. Warmly Inscribed by the author to Herb Yellin of the Lord John Press, who published several limited editions by Oates.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.