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Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$24.94 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.55
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$33.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$33.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$55.58 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: Front Cover Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$58.01 + shipping
Condition: New
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Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$59.84 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Book is in NEW condition.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$59.84 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book is in Used-LikeNew condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of the first edition, first printing (has very slight fading and wear).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long; Stories 1987 - 1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good trade paperback
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Pr, 1993.
Price: US$84.20 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: reprint edition. 214 pages. 9.00x5.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
BERLIN, Lucia. So Long : Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1993.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First edition, trade paperback issue. 214pp. 8vo. Perfect-bound in printed wraps. Mild wear to bottom corners and base of spine, else about fine. Though unstated, this copy from the library of New York School poet, librettist, and publisher Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), a close friend and correspondent of Berlin's.
Seller: Dividing Line Books, Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$255.35 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New
Seller: Wizard Books, Long Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1993.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover with a glassine jacket. First edition; one of 200 hardcover trade copies. Small bump near the center of the bottom edge of the front board. Two tiny stains to the top edge of the text block, one next to a minuscule indentation. Jacket has a bit of rubbing and edge wear. Book and jacket are both in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft cover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Slight fading to spine otherwise very good. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin s at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. So Long. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.
Price: US$1650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 26 copies hardbound in boards by Earle Gray lettered and signed by the author. There were another 200 hardcover trade copies, and 100 hardcover copies numbered and signed by Berlin. This is copy "X." Signed by Berlin on the colophon. Fine book in a near fine acetate jacket that has minor rubbing.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED Limited edition. #56 of only 100 hardcover copies. Fine in pictorial printed boards with orange quarter cloth in the publisher's clear acetate protective jacket. (214pp. ) (6 1/4" X 9 1/4") Small signed issue. 0876; 6 1/4" x 9 1/4") ; 214 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Lucia Berlin. So Long: Stories 1987-1992. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1993.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing. Limited edition hardcover. FIne book in a fine acetate dust jacket. Lettered edition. Letter "L" of 26 copies, signed by the author on the limitation page.
Seller: MDS BOOKS, Mississauga, ON, Canada
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press (1993). First edition. First printing. Cloth. Hardbound. New/New. A pristine unread copy (without marks or bruises or smells or any other defect). Comes with original acetate dust jacket cover. Shipped in well-padded box. NOTE: This book was purchased new and never opened. Cloth backed decorative boards with acetate dust jacket. There were 200 hardcover copies in the first edition. 100 copies were signed and numbered by the author on the colophon. This is copy number 100. SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY AUTHOR on colophon page. You cannot find a better copy.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
BERLIN, Lucia.. So Long: Stories 1987-1992.. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1993.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 214 pp. Faint foxing to the top edges, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Berlin. Additionally INSCRIBED by Berlin, "Aug. 1993 / for Bob / with thanks, + love, / always / Lucia." Laid into this copy is a thirty-two word ALS from Berlin dated August 19, 1993 in part presenting this book, and apologizing for the oversight. The recipient is Robert Callahan of the Turtle Island Foundation, who published Berlin's second book, ANGELS LAUNDROMAT in 1977.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Description: First Printings, wrappered issue. Two octavo volumes (22.75cm); original decorative card wrappers; [10],11-214,[6]; [10],11-240,[4]pp. So Long is inscribed on the front endpaper to Kenward Elmslie: "February 1997 / Dearest Kenward / It has been so great to see you + hear you / Love, Lucia." Where I Live Now is warmly inscribed to Elmslie on the title page: "May, 1999 / For dearest Kenward / with all my love / Lucia." Both volumes gently spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn, with some mild dust- and finger-soil to wrappers; Very Good+. The second and third volumes of Berlin's short fiction published by the Black Sparrow Press, collecting between them 41 stories written between 1987-1998, several of which first appeared in the pages of City Lights Review, Folio, Gas, In This Corner, Jejeune, Barnabe Mountain Review, Brick, Exquisite Corpse, New American Writing, and Sniper Logic, et al. A distinguished pair of copies from the library of poet, publisher, and librettist Kenward Elmslie (1929-2022), who Berlin met in 1994 at Naropa, where they were both visiting writers. "Berlin called it an "instant friendship." "We cut through right away into each other's deep feelings. It was like falling in love, or going back to your childhood best friend in first grade, that kind of really pure friendship" (Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin & Kenward Elmslie, p.1). Her relationship with Elmslie would prove to be the most significant friendship during the last decade of her life, resulting in hundreds of letters, postcards, and mail art exchanged between them. In a June 13, 1999 letter, Elmslie mentions the copy of Where I Live Now Berlin had sent him, and was complimentary about her work: "Ron Padgett is reading Where I Live Now, loaned downhill. He's tough, and his advance word is: good stuff. Specific praise for the ending of the doc office cover-up tale ["A Love Affair"].The placement of the tales is, I think, masterful. Your Body of Work, by now, is so strong. Who else has a continuum of short fictions that hold up like like Gang Busters.Your very own niche. In ancient times, Kathy Mansfield. Dotty Parker. And Tru [Capote]" (pp.66-67). Berlin would write him a month later, ecstatic about Publisher's Weekly giving her book a rave review. He responded: "I'm so happy about your news THE review.For some reason, I'm afraid to articulate WHY I'm so drawn to your stories, as if that'll entail proving I'm a really smart critic. Because I'm not. So it remains a private matter, this strong feeling for your work, connected to Chekhov, that much I know, and a blissful summer working on a libretto of The Seagull" (pp.86-87). Throughout their decade-long correspondence, they would critique each other's work (and that of their contemporaries), gossip, and share the intimate details of their lives. Berlin wrote Elmslie faithfully, right up until a month before she died in November, 2004; at her funeral, "Kenward was last to pay her tribute, and he sung a capella a lyric he wrote for his play City Junket, Lucia's favorite of his songs: "Who'll Prop Me Up in the Rain?" (p.321). We've traced fewer than a handful of association copies of Berlin's works in commerce, and none reflecting this degree of intimacy.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.