Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kelly, Robert. The Common Shore. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$9.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The Common Shore. Black Sparrow Press, LA, 1969.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 176pp. Limited to 1000 copies. Very Good w/ a very small dot pen mark on the bottom edge, a side edge has narrow tears.
Seller: Books Anonymous, Hudson, NY, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The Common Shore Books I-V. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 176 pg. p. Hardbound in green cloth covered boards. Kelly's first five books of The Common Shore. Recalls Olson in tone and structure. Good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. This is an ex-library book with the usual stamps and notations throughout. Sold as a reader copy only. First edition. First Edition, First Printing.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.50 + shipping
Description: 176 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Morrow & Cooney 66a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Paperback. 9 1/8" X 6 3/8". 176pp. Edition limited to 1000 copies in wraps, out of a total edition of 1276. Mild edgewear and light soiling and water stains to paper wraps with light crease to corner at rear, else near fine in tight, sound binding with uncreased spine and clean, unmarked pages. Some light remains of erased bookseller notations to flyleaf. A nice, lightly worn, first printing copy of the first five books of this long poem by deep image poet Robert Kelly.
Seller: Underground Books, ABAA, Carrollton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 176 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Review slip laid in. Morrow & Cooney 66a.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. Light handling to covers, otherwise in very good condition. Binding tight and text clean. Overall very good copy of this title.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles, CA:The Black Sparrow Press. 1969. 176pp. One of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. With glassine wrapper. The outside and inside of the boards are discolored due to dampness however the inside pages are bright and clean and there is no discernible odor.There is dust residue to the top edge. S018.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The Common Shore. Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 176 pg. Glued binding. Heavy rag wrappers. One of 1000 copies printed. Book is straight, strong and clean. Wrappers show some wear, specifically at the corners. Kelly's verse recalls Olson's Maximus Poems. First Paper Edition.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 176 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket with tiny chips to crown. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Kelly. Morrow & Cooney 66b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Tall octavo. Fine in a near fine publisher's clear acetate dust jacket with modest rubbing. One of 250 copies numbered and Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert.. THE COMMON SHORE.. BLACK SPARROW PRESS., LOS ANGELES, 1969.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. SIGNED by Robert Kelly on the front endpaper. Near fine in printed wrappers. (Top edge foxed) 1000 copies printed. (G)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, tan boards and brown cloth lettered in brown. First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Kelly. A gorgeous copy of Kelly's ambitious epic poem.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 176 pp. Light foxing to top edge, light bumps to upper corners; in all, near fine in printed paper-covered boards green leather spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Kelly. As in the lettered issued, there is an original illustrated poem tipped in after the title page. Additionally, this copy is dated (29.IX.69) and INSCRIBED by Kelly to John and Barbara Martin.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.