Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
McClure, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
McCLURE, Michael.. The Cherub.. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1970., 1970.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. Hardbound in paper-covered boards and cloth spine, issued in acetate dust jacket. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Couple of minute specks to cover, else fine in acetate dust jacket with a 1-inch tear.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
MCCLURE, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1970.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. [32] pages. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. First edition, limited issue, number 126 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. A fine copy, tear to acetate
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael.. THE CHERUB.. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles., 1970.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: 12 x 9.5, cloth backed boards, unpag, vg in spine chipped glassine dw. ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
McCLURE, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Quarto. 34pp. Quarter cloth and paper-covered illustrated boards. Fine, bright copy in publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket with a moderate chip and two long tears on front panel. Limited to 250 numbered copies Signed by McClure.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
MCCLURE, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1970.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. [32] pp. Original cloth-backed printed boards; acetate jacket. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 76 of 250 copies in boards signed by McClure. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. A fine copy
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, #91 of 250 copies, Signed. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. 4to. Morrow & Cooney 77a Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. 4to First edition, #91 of 250 copies, Signed.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. The Cherub ( SIGNED ). Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press 1970, 1970.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition 1/250 signed by author Unpaginated Fine/Fine Book and Boards are MINT Illustrated bright clean boards
Seller: Bob Lemkowitz , rhinebeck, NY, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. The Cherub.. Black Sparrow Press, 1970.
Price: US$82.15 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 29 pp. Original pictorial half cloth, signed and numbered. This copy # 31. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh. Some wear to lucite jacket, otherwise very good.
Seller: Yushodo Co., Ltd., Fuefuki-shi, Yamanashi Pref., Japan
Beats - McClure, Michael. The Cherub (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Tall 4to. Oatmeal cloth spine over paper-covered boards. Unpaginated. A play by this beat-era poet and playright. A fine copy in fine acetate wrapper. SIGNED by the poet. Signed by Author.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
MCCLURE, Michael. The Cherub (Limited Edition, Signed]. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 94. Large quarto (30cm.); original linen-backed decorative boards, acetate dust jacket; unpaged; decorative title page printed in red and black. Clean split to top third of upper jacket flap, else Fine. Signed by the author on limitation page. Designed and printed by Noel Young and Graham Mackintosh.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 26 lettered copies specially bound, signed by the author with an original illustration, this being copy 'N'. Quarto (30.5cm); full burgundy calf, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on front cover, and title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [36]pp. Touch of wear to lower board edges, else Fine in a lightly shelfworn, Near Fine dustjacket. Handsome edition of McClure's play, which opened on the second night of the Siege of Berkeley, May 16, 1969. The volume includes the poem "To James B. Rector," to whom the play was dedicated. Rector was killed in Berkeley on "Bloody Thursday" by Alameda County Sheriff deputies on May 19, 1969. Morrow & Cooney 77b.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, CA, 1970.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, hardcover, Author's Presentation Copy, signed by McClure at the colophon and with an original illustration by him, light bump to base of spine, 9 tiny dents to top of front board, small chip to leather along base of rear board at spine, light shelfwear, otherwise a VG+ copy in red leather with gilt titles and decorations in a lightly rubbed acetate dustjacket.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Mcclure, Michael. The Cherub [A Play]. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, "Presentation" issue, limited to 5 numbered copies for presentation, designated "Presentation Copy 3/5" on the colophon leaf, signed by Michael McClure [also issued in an edition of 250 numbered copies, and 26 lettered copies, all signed by Michael McClure]. [33]pp. 4to. ONE OF 5 COPIES FOR PRESENTATION, SIGNED BY MICHAEL McCLURE. Publisher's printed paper spine label, paper-covered boards, Front and rear covers have few tiny soil spots, rear cover has slight bumped crease at tip of one corner, else a near fine copy in publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket; acetate jacket has few short creased tears, else it has kept the binding quite bright First edition, "Presentation" issue, limited to 5 numbered copies for presentation, designated "Presentation Copy 3/5" on the colophon leaf, signed by Michael McClure [also issued in an edition of 250 numbered copies, and 26 lettered copies, all signed by Michael McClure].
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. THE CHERUB. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1970.
Price: US$270.25 + shipping
Description: 12 x 9.5, full leather, unpag, very minor wear to top of spine else vg in torn glassine dw. ONE OF 26 LETTERED PRESENTATION COPIES, WITH AN ORIG DRAWING AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
McClure, Michael. The Cherub. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, LA & Santa Rosa, 1970.
Price: US$299.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: signed & numbered limited edition handbound hard back bound in boards by earle gray, printed by noel young & GRAHAM MACKINTOSH designed by barbara martin, 180 out of only 250 signed hard covers
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.