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BLACKMUR, R.P.. THE GOOD EUROPEAN. Cummington Press, Cummington, MA, 1947.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of Blakmur's third collection of poems, number 57 of 270 copies. Hardcover. Very good without jacket. 8vo. 39pp. Quarter cloth and patterned paper covered boards. Printed title label to spine. Cloth ends a bit rubbed. Boards mildly toned toward edges. Previous ownership signature to first endpaper. Otherwise clean, sound.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 39 pages. Copy 88 of 270 printed on Etruria paper from a total edition of 310. Blackmur's third collection of poems. A clean very near fine copy with paper covered boards and cloth spine. No dust jacket. A nicely printed book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R. P.. GOOD EUROPEAN. , 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: BLACKMUR, R. P. THE GOOD EUROPEAN. [Cumminton, MA]: Printed at the The Cummington Press, 1947. Limited edition, with a review slip laid-in. This copy is number 209, from an edition of 270, printed on Etruria paper from Italy with Victor Hammer's American Uncial type. Octavo. 39 pp. Bound by Arno Werner in paste paper boards, brown cloth back, with a paper label at spine. Internally fine. Occasional, light foxing to paste paper sides, and slight edgewear; cloth is rubbed and worn through at a small patch on the lower joint; paper label is edge-chipped. Very good plus.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 39pp; cloth-backed original decorative boards with prined spine label. One of270 numbered copies, out of the total edition of 310. Edges of label rubbed, with loss of final letter in the poet's name, edges rubbed, very good.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
BLACKMUR, R. P.. The Good European. Poems. The Cummington Press, (Cummington, MA), 1947.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed paste-paper boards by Arno Werner. Fine copy. First edition. One of 270 copies printed on Etruria paper out of a total edition of 310 copies.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Blackmur, R. P.. The good European and other poems. Cummington Press, Cummington, Mass, 1947.
Price: US$156.25 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 310 copies, (this no. 185) and one of 270 on Etruria paper; 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; original black cloth-backed paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; binding slightly stressed at p. [8-9], otherwise a near fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. Richmond 30.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
R.P. Blackmur. The Good European. Cummington, Massachusetts: The Cummington Press, 1947.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, Quarter brown cloth, and decorated striped paper-covered boards. Paper label to spine. Limited edition: number 235 out of 310 copies, on Ertruria paper from Italy. Signed by R.P. Blackmur on the title-page. Near Fine.
Seller: Ben Mazer Modern Firsts, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 39 pages. Copy XVI of only 40 copies printed on French Arches paper from a total edition of 300 copies. Blackmur's third collection of poems. A tight close to near fine copy in cloth boards with leather label to the spine and front board and with some minor wear to the top of the spine. No dust jacket. Signed by Blackmur on the limitation page. A nicely printed book.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Blackmur, R. P.. The good European and other poems. Cummington Press, Cummington, Mass, 1947.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Description: First edition limited to 310 copies, this one of 40 numbered in roman numerals (no. XXV) printed on Arches paper, and signed by the author; 8vo, pp. 39, [1]; original full brown buckram, leather labels lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker. Richmond 30.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.