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Various. Sparrow 49 - 60. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$200.01 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine first edition. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Unpaginated. Publisher's burgundy cloth with title label affixed to front cover. Issues 49 to 60 of Sparrow magazine, which published poetry, fiction, essays, criticism, reviews. Clear acetate dust jacket is near fine with minor rubbing and wear to bottom corner between front cover and spine. Spanning October 1976 to September 1977, each monthly issue represented the work of a single author. In chronological order: Fielding Dawson, Diane Wakoski, Cyd Corman, Charles Reznikoff, Carl Rakosi, Charles Bukowski, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshelman, Paul Goodman, Wanda Coleman, Ekbert Faas.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 50 hardbound copies binding together the 12 issues of the "Sparrow" literary periodical published in 1977. All the issues written by those authors who were living at the time (Charles Reznikoff and Paul Goodman are the exceptions) are signed on their front covers. The book is Fine except for foxing on the side of the text block and some wrinkling on the front binding (publisher's defect).
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited autograph edition of this bound collection of 12 monthly issues, each featuring a single poet. Signed by 10 of the 12 poets at their respective contributions, including Charles Bukowski, Fielding Dawson, Diane Wakoski, Cid Corman, Carl Rakosi, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Wanda Coleman, and Ekbert Faas. Limited to 50 copies. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Faint rubbing to extremities, else a fine copy in the original acetate protective sleeve.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First collected edition, signed issue. Octavo. Red cloth with printed paper-cover label. A fine copy in publisher's unprinted lightly rubbed near fine acetate dust jacket. Contains issues of the publisher's pamphlet numbers 49-60, consisting of the following, and Signed by 13 of the contributors as issued. A collection of Black Sparrow Press "Sparrow" publications 61-72, consisting of the following, each signed by the contributor: Sparrow 61). Summer Letters by Michael Davidson (signed). Sparrow 62). Two Stories by Eve Shelnutt (signed). Sparrow 63). Dionysus & The Beat: Four Letters on the Archtype by William Everson (signed). Sparrow 64). In a Lost World by Edouard Roditi (signed). Sparrow 65). Battles in Spain: Five Unpublished Poems by Cesar Vallejo. Translated by Clayton Eshleman and Jose Rubia Barcia (Signed by Eshleman and Barcia). Sparrow 66). This Will Kill That by Gerard Malanga (signed). Sparrow 67). Birdscapes, with Seaside by Nathaniel Tarn (signed). Sparrow 68). Wheres by Robert Kelly (signed). Sparrow 69). A Conversation with Hitler by Tom Clark (signed). Sparrow 70). What I Own by Stephen Stepanchev (signed). Sparrow 71). Pachelbel's Canon by Diane Wakoski (signed). Sparrow 72). We'll Take Them by Charles Bukowski (signed).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First collected edition, signed issue. Octavo. Purple cloth with printed paper-cover label. Contains issues of the publisher's pamphlet numbers 49-60, consisting of the following, and Signed by ten of the contributors as issued: Sparrow 49). More Tiger Lillies by Fielding Dawson (signed). Sparrow 50). Variations on a Theme (An Essay on Revision) by Diane Wakoski (signed). Sparrow 51). For The Asking by Cid Corman (signed). Sparrow 52). First There is the Need by Charles Reznikoff. Sparrow 53). My Experience in Parnassus by Carl Rakosi (signed). Sparrow 54). Maybe Tomorrow by Charles Bukowski (signed). Sparrow 55). The Lady Of by Robert Kelly (signed). Sparrow 56). Ascensions by Theodore Enslin (signed). Sparrow 57). Core Meander by Clayton Eshleman (signed). Sparrow 58). Three Early Stories by Paul Goodman. Sparrow 59). Art in the Court of the Blue Fag by Wanda Coleman (signed). Sparrow 60). From "Towards a New American Poetics" by Ekbert Faas (signed). A fine copy in publisher's unprinted lightly rubbed near fine acetate dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
(Black Sparrow Press). Sparrow 49-60. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, unpag.; cloth, with printed label. Collected publication of the then most recent dozen of the publisher's occasional pamphlets, issued here in a limited, autographed edition, nearly every individual pamphlet signed by its author, with the exceptions of Charles Reznikoff and Paul Goodman, who had died. Signing contributors are: Fielding Dawson, Diane Wakoski, Cid Corman, Carl Rakosi, Charles Bukowski, Robert Kelly, Theodore Enslin, Clayton Eshleman, Wanda Coleman, and Ekbert Faas. A hint of lightening; fine in original clear plastic jacket.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.