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KELLY, ROBERT. The Loom. black sparrow press los angeles 1975, 1975.
Price: US$11.41 + shipping
Description: [first trade paperback edition] 415pp VG+ (light green paper wrappers, sl rubbed and mod soiled w. mod stains to spine and hinge area, v. minor surface loss to spine w. mod sunning, sl bumps and wear to extrems, sl foxing to fore edges of wrappers w. sl foxing to edges of contents, owners inscription to half title page) first trade paperback edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Kelly, Robert. THE LOOM. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975., 1975.
Price: US$19.75 + shipping
Description: First edition - First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with limited hardcover edition. A long narrative poem, broken up into 36 numbered sections. Ex-library but overall very good condition with relatively few marking (stamps inside front, fading to the spine of the light green wrappers.)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition, Limited to 250 copies of which this is no. 63. Octavo; publisher's green cloth over decorative paper-covered boards, printed paper spine paste-on, in original acetate dust jacket; 415pp. Light wear with very shallow chips and loss to jacket margins, textblock fore-edge lightly toned and thumb-soiled, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Signed by the author on colophon in rear. Additionally inscribed and signed on front free leaf, "For Tom & Jonathan / Something to whistle while waiting for Elgar's 3rd. Love, Robert."
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The loom. Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 250 numbered and signed copies. Acetate jacket intact with some edgwear, one tiny tear. Book clean and tight with sound binding.
Seller: Webster's Bookstore Cafe, Inc., State College, PA, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. THE LOOM - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1975.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of 15 copies specially bound and designated for the author, publisher, and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by the author on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [10],11-415,[5]pp. With an original holograph poem by Kelly on a tipped-in prelimniary leaf. Trivial finger-soil to lower edge of textblock, else Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A 400+ page epic love poem to the "Helen" cited on the dedication page. Morrow & Cooney 218c.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The Loom. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1975.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED. 415pp. Octavo [23.5 cm] 1/4 thickly woven cloth with decoratively printed chartreuse paper over boards. The top fore-edge corner of the rear cover is gently bumped. Number 38 in an edition of 50 hardbound copies, signed with "Illumination" (on a tipped-in page at the front). Signed by the poet on the limitation page as well.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
KELLY, Robert.. The Loom.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1975.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 415 pp. Top edge foxed, else very good plus in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Kelly with an "illumination" tipped in after the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by Kelly across the two front endpapers to John and Barbara Martin.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert.. THE LOOM.. Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles ., 1975.
Price: US$224.25 + shipping
Description: 9.25 x 6.25, cloth backed boards, 415 pp, edges spotted else vg in slightly torn acetate dw. ONE OF ONLY 5 PRESENTATION COPES (edition of 250 numbered copies). WITH AUTHOR'S SIGNATURES AND MANUSCRIPT PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Kelly, Robert. The Loom. Black Sparrow Press, 1975.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 415 p. Audience: General/trade. This is #205 of 250 numbered and signed hardcover copies. Also the book is signed by the poet Edward Dorn on inside flyleaf (signed Edward Dorn, San Francisco). An excellent, one-of- a-kind book from the private library of a major poet by a major poet. Two poet signatures in one book. Signed by author. Book is a near fine, clean and straight copy. Acetate cover is Fine condition. First edition. Limited signed edition. Special edition.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.