Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pp. Light sunning along spine, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Meltzer.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Description: Wrappered Issue, one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author, this being copy no.169. Slim octavo (21.5cm); original decorative card wrappers; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 29,[3]pp. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. MORROW & COONEY 60a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed spine label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 125 numbered copies SIGNED by Meltzer. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. 29pp. Case-bound in loosely woven cloth with large paper cover label. Textblock a little wavy, else fine in a very good acetate dustwrapper with some light rubbing and two short splits at the head of the spine. Copy 45 of 125 copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in Fine actetate jacket. Signed issue: 29 of 125 numbered copies signed by author.
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This is number 21 of 125 handbound hardcover copies SIGNED and numbered by the author on the limitation page. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966, making this 1969 publication a fairly early offering. Ships same or next business day. Book has minor edge and shelf wear; pages are tight, bright, and clean. In publisher's acetate jacket. Jacket has minor edge and shelf wear. ; Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 29 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
David Meltzer. Round the Poem Box. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In Fine condition with a touch of wear to paper wrappers and some sunning to spine. Clean interior, tightly bound with sewn in paper wrappers. David Meltzer's signature to colophon. Restricted to a limited run of 300, of which this is 97. Includes drawing on opposite page. Quite a beautiful edition for a poetry collector. Referred to as "one of the greats of post-World-War Two San Francisco poets and musicians" by famous Beatnik legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Meltzer wrote more than 50 books. He was the lead singer of the psychedelic group "The Serpent Power," whose 1967 record was listed as a top 40 album of the "Summer of Love" by Rolling Stone magazine. This edition is published by Black Sparrow Press, a small print founded in LA in 1966 by John and Barbara Martin. Until its end in 2002, the imprint published high quality, collectible editions by Charles Bukowski, "unofficial poet laureate of LA" Wanda Coleman, Charles Reznikoff, and Diane Wakoski among others. It was initially founded in order to publish Bukowski's often controversial works, along with poems and prose by other writers considered avant-garde or transgressive. In March 2020, Black Sparrow Press relaunched its publication services.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pp. Fine in full red leather with printed front cover and spine labels. Very near fine acetate dust jacket (lightly rubbed). One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meltzer with an original drawing.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pp. Fine in full red leather with printed front cover and spine labels. Very near fine acetate dust jacket (lightly rubbed). Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Meltzer with an original two-color drawing opposite the title page.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 29 pp. Fine in full red leather with printed front cover and spine labels. Very near fine acetate dust jacket (lightly rubbed). One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meltzer with an original drawing. This is copy "J" with the letter incorporated into an inscription to Jack Shoemaker (his close friend and publisher), with additional drawings to the colophon page, the page opposite, the title page, and the page opposite.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.