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Turco, Lewis. The Compleat Melancholick : Lewis Turco (Paperback, 1985). Bieler Pr, 1985.
Price: US$26.51 + shipping
Description: Book
Seller: Streamside Books, Waterville, ME, U.S.A.
Turco, Lewis. The Compleat Melancholick. Bieler Press, Minneapolis, 1985.
Price: US$28.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback. First Edition. Very good condition. From the collection of poet Gavin Ewart. Signed and dedicated by author to Ewart. Cover with sunned spine. Pages and text fine. RB
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$29.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners slightly bumped and a bit of fading at the spine and a bit of residue on the back cover from a removed sticker. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Turco's signature beneath his name on title page. "This paperbound edition was lithographically reproduced from proofs of a hand-printed limited edition." Grey book covers mildly faded along edges, spine; back corner crease. 67 pages
Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Light foxing on page edges, sunned spine, very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Turco, Lewis. The Compleat Melancholick. Bieler Press, 1985.
Price: US$31.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Paperback, VG. Nice, clean copy. Clean and bright pages, no interior marking. Binding is solid.
Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$81.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 67 pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm. #100 of a limited, signed edition of 150 copies. Signed by Turco on the colophon page. The paper spine label with a small bubble, probably a binding flaw; otherwise a perfect copy.
Seller: Cambridge Books, Cambridge, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. 67pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the author. Trace rubbing to corners, else near fine in patterned blue paper backed in navy cloth. Prospectus laid in.
Seller: Bromer Booksellers, Inc., ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in quarter blue buckram and paper boards. Fine. Smith 37. Signed by Author
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Turco, Lewis. The Compleat Melancholick.. Bieler, Minneapolis, 1985.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: THE COMPLEAT MELANCHOLICK: BEING A SEQUENCE OF FOUND, COMPOSITE, AND COMPOSED POEMS, BASED LARGELY UPON ROBERT BURTON'S "THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY." One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author. Bound in quarter blue buckram and paper boards. Fine. Smith 37.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 150 copies signed by Turco (this, no. 76); small 8vo, pp. 67, [3]; handset by Emily Mason in Monotype Plantin and printed by Gerald Lange on Mohawk Letterpress Text; a hand-colored woodcut from the Augsburg Calendar introduces the poetry; fine in blue buckram-backed paste paper boards, printed paper label on spine. Smith, Bieler, 37.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.00 + shipping
Description: small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 67, (3) pages. Reprint of the hand-set limited edition. Sequence of 26 poems, often collages of the author's own lines with quotations from Burton, with some poems entirely the author's, sometimes in Burton's language, and one or two "composed" entirely from Burton. Many items were previously published elsewhere, in different versions and/or under different titles. With a woodcut entitled "Melancholy" taken from the Augsburg Chronicle (c1480). See p.3 of the 1990 Bieler catalogue.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.