Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Elmslie, Kenward. The Champ. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles CA, 1968.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Limited to 750 paper copies. 66 pages, 66 drawings on facing pages. Covers partially sunfaded and creased, cover edges scuffed, a few water stains, 1" page foot soiled at spine and corner, 1 1/2" beginning to separate text from cover foot.; 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
ELMSLIE, Kenward.. The Champ.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1968.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 66 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers. Poems illustrated with drawings by Joe Brainard. Morrow & Cooney 31a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
ELMSLIE, Kenward.. The Champ.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1968.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: 66 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Poems illustrated with drawings by Joe Brainard. Morrow & Cooney 31a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.11 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.26 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Poems accompanied by thirty-one illustrations by Joe Brainard; 750 copies (total edition 876) Printed wrappers. A couple of marks and creased along foredge of front panel, else fine.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Elmslie, Kenward and Joe Brainard. The Champ. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperbound quarto. 66 pp. A single long poem by Elmslie with charming illustrations by Joe Brainard. A handsome very good example.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG. 4to, 72pp, printed wrappers. 1 of 750 copies in wrappers of this elegant collaboration between Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard. Unmarked copy, light outer wear, small surface chip to head of spine.
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Elmslie, Kenward / illustrated by Joe Brainard. The Champ. Black Sparrow Press, 1968, 1968.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: First edition One of only 750 copies. Early Black Sparrow production. Near fine tall stiff wraps with paper label to spine. Just the lightest age tone to cover. Printed in 1968 in Santa Barbara by Alan Brilliant and Noel Young.
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Elmslie, Kenward. THE CHAMP. , 1968.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles 1968 1st Black Sparrow. Limited to 750 copies. 4to., 66pp., illustrations by Joe Brainard, wraps. VG, light wear along cover edges.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
Elmslie, Kenward. The Champ. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Price: US$93.27 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 66 pages; Limited edition of only 750 copies. Description: 66 p. Illus. 26 cm. Subjects: Elmslie, Kenward. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Elmslie, Kenward and Joe Brainard. The Champ.. [Gotham Book Mart], 1968.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 8 ½ x 11 in. sheet printed on one side and folded twice to make a four-page pamphlet announcing a book party and exhibition forThe Champby Kenward Elmslie and Joe Brainard (Black Sparrow Press, 1968) at the Gotham Book Mart Gallery in New York City. Old vertical fold and a hint of age toning to extremities, clean with sharp corners.
Seller: Granary Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Elmslie, Kenward. The Champ. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in the original title-printed, stiff-card wrappers. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 66 pages; Limited edition of only 750 copies. Description: 66 p. Illus. 26 cm. Subjects: Elmslie, Kenward. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELMSLIE, Kenward. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. The Champ. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Joe Brainard. Printed wrappers. Modest rubbing mostly along the spine else near fine. One of 750 copies in wrappers. Inscribed by both Elmslie ("for Jerry & Hazel, Extra air!!! Love from Kenward") and Brainard ("For Jerry & Hazel, 'Thank You' & I hope you enjoy it. Love, Joe").
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Elmslie Kenward & Joe Brainard (illus by). THE CHAMP. Black Sparrow, 1968.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, lettered wrappers, INSCRIBED in pencil in large block letter on colophon." For Gordon (Brotherson)Love and "Thank You".Joe".vv1/1
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, original patterned cloth. Fine copy. First edition. One of 100 numbered hardbound copies signed by Elmslie & Brainard.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Elmslie, Kenward and Joe Brainard. The Champ. Black Sparrow Press, 1968.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Decorated cloth over boards with printed label. Drawings by Joe Brainard. This is no. 81 from an edition of 100 copies and is signed by Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie. There are also 750 copies in wrappers and 26 are specially bound. Fine, a lovely production from Black Sparrow.
Seller: Granary Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
ELMSLIE, Kenward and Joe Brainard.. The Champ.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1968.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Five inch two-track monaural tape (7 1/2 i.p.s.) recorded in April 1968 in NYC. Housed in a decorated two-part box (near fine). Elmslie reads "The Champ" and Brainard reads "Alice." One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Elmslie and Brainard on a label inside the top lid. This is copy #1. Morrow & Cooney 31 (note).
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.