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Corn, Alfred. The New Life.. New York, Albondocani Press., 1983.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author and hand-numbered. -- Prospectus is laid in for this: 12 sections from a poem of 100 sections, in progress. -- Softcover, hand-sewn wrappers are French marble paper. Condition: near fine.
Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.
Corn, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, 1983.
Price: US$56.25 + shipping
Description: 19 pages. One of 100 copies (for sale). Twelve selections from a book-length work-in-progress, a poem of 100 sections. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in marbled wrappers with paper label on front (paperback). Press announcement of publication included. Slight sunning at spine. Signed by the author on limitation page. Copy number 64.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author, this is copy number 4. Scarce.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. Copy number 2 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. Ray Roberts's copy. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Corn, Alfred. THE NEW LIFE. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: One of 26 lettered copies (this is "Z") signed by the poet on the colophon as called for. 126 total copies were hand-sewn in French marble papers, with a paper label; a beautiful production. This copy additionally inscribed by the poet "For __ __, bookman extraordinaire." with a four line poem and signed two times (three counting the colophon). A number of the poems were not published, the rest only in Poetry, prior to this printing. Prospectus laid in. Fine in Wraps (in added removable mylar protective covers).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Copy number 1 of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author and additionally Inscribed to the publisher George Bixby: "To George, With thanks for his overseeing this edition of my new life! Best wishes, Alfred New York 23.ix.83."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
CORN, Alfred. The New Life. Albondocani Press, New York, 1983.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in marbled self-wrappers. Prospectus for the book laid in. Copy letter R of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. Ray Roberts's copy, although not marked as such. Roberts was an influential editor with Viking, Henry Holt, and then Little, Brown, and he worked closely with John Fowles, Martha Grimes, Thomas Pynchon, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.