Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Kosinski's most famous and infamous book. Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked front hinge, significant wear to edges of boards, tape around flaps and onto pastedowns. Fair jacket, in library plastic, torn at edges of flaps where affixed to boards, cannot be removed from book, wear consistent with history as library book. 8vo, brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine, in illustrated dust jacket, 272 pp
Seller: Better Read Than Dead, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird: Notes of the Author. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Paperback. Glossy, stiff white printed wrappers with flaps. 29pp. Covers spotted. Inscribed by Kosinski & dated 1965.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust Jacket Only. 8vo. Good with tears (repaired), minor staining.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth with black lettering to the spine. Brown EPs.Top page edges dyed light brown . Stated Third Printing with only the 1965 date on the CR page. Price clipped DJ designed by Leo and Diane Dillon. This copy is VG. DJ is VG. Exterior has small, faded damp stains to front and rear lower corners, not affecting inside boards or text, but mimicked on DJ. Otherwise exterior is rich. Lettering id crisp. Edges are sharp. Inside is unmarked and tight. Modestly toned. DJ has a minimally sunned spine, a pin sized puncture to rear hinge, and modest wear at tips along with a small "Doubleday" sticker to rear.
Seller: Bailey Bonzo Books, Shelbyville, IN, U.S.A.
Jerzy Kosinski. THE PAINTED BIRD. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second Printing. Publishers brown cloth with brown topstain, cover titles in blind, spine titles in black. FINE in age tanned jacket, 1" tear top front panel, $4.95 price intact to jacket flap; jacket artwork by Leo & Diane Dillon.
Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. THE PAINTED BIRD. Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston, 1965.
Price: US$97.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8.25 x 5.5", embossed brown cloth, 272pp, covers rubbed, extremities bumped, spine a little cocked, ink name of former owner on front fly, old bookstore label inside front cover, FRONT INNER HINGE COMPLETELY BROKEN (SEPARATED), pp toned with some light staining to foredge and bottom edge of textblock, last 24pp or so with horizontal creasing, in a rubbed, stained, darkened, worn, edge-torn/chipped but complete dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. SWAF.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. Notes of the Author on "The Painted Bird". Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited edition, slightly soiled presentation copy to fellow writer Daniel Stern and wife Gloria, signed by author/slight tear; 29 pages; Along lower spine
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, JERZY. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$112.20 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Brown cloth with black lettering to spine. Brown top stain. Price-clipped Dj is still vibrant and colourful. The hinge has completely split from spine in one piece, but otherwise the book is fine. Appears unread.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Soft cover french wraps, 1st edition with unquantified limited distribution, originally intended as an appendix for the German-language edition. Very light toning to the glossy white wraps else about fine. INSCRIBED to writer Geoffrey Wolff on the front end paper, with Wolff's signature atop the page and his underlining and marginalia throughout the pamphlet.
Seller: Tom Davidson, Bookseller, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. The Painted Bird: Notes of the Author. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. 12mo. Stapled self-wrappers. Some modest age-toning on the wrappers, near fine. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. These notes were originally issued for the German addition of *The Painted Bird*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Inscribed by author on title page. NEAR-FINE IN CARD COVERS. VERY MINOR WEAR.
Seller: MARK POST, BOOKSELLER, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. PAINTED BIRD. , 1965.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: KOSINSKI, Jerzy. THE PAINTED BIRD. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965. First edition. 8vo., brown cloth. A clean and crisp copy overall but, unfortunately, the front hinge is split and there is an (unexplainable) small pressure mark to the first 20 pp. In a bright dust-jacket that shows only light soiling and a small scratch over the author's photo. With all faults.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, JERZY. THE PAINTED BIRD. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO., BOSTON, MA, 1965.
Price: US$179.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inscribed by author to title page: "for mr. & mrs. novogrodsky-much appreciation and very best wishes, winter '67."
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, BOSTON, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Boards starting to lightly brown. Pictorial front fly leaf. DATE PUBLISHED: 1965 EDITION: 29
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, JERZY. THE PAINTED BIRD. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, BoSTON, 1965.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A FINE FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET.
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$249.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth titled in black, brown topstain. Stated first printing. Spine ends gently bumped, some stains to block edge, bookplate has been removed from ffep. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is lightly soiled with slight chips to points. ; Octavo
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Very Good jacket, clipped, rubbed at the surface, closed tear and a small chip to the top edge of the front panel. Brown buckram with dark brown lettering on the spine, blind lettering on the front board. Square, bound with some reading wear and a brown top stain, clean internally. Kosinski's controversial novel about a boy in Eastern Europe during World War II.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Co, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with the top line of page 270 also appearing at the top of page 271. Front hinge cracked, else near fine in attractive very good dust jacket with a small tape repair at the top of the front spine-fold and a narrow chip at the bottom of the front panel. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in; the slip with a couple of creases. The author's arresting and increasingly uncommon first novel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Octavo. Illustrated dust jacket, brown top edge, brown pastedowns and free end papers. Very good dust jacket, chipping at top front panel, light wear to spine ends and corners, slight darkening, near fine overall, pages slightly agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing stated. First issue with repeating line from top page 270 to top page 271. 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Book; binding tight, boards straight and clean; paper split to front gutter with subtle bump to bottom edge else text free of marks, appears unread. Dust jacket ($4.95) has minor rubbing to rear cover with moderate paper loss to spine ends and 1/2" x 3/4" paper loss to top rear cover, 1/4" closed tear to top front cover and bottom rear cover with mild fading to spine. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$409.88 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good
Seller: Mispah books, Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1965. First edition, correct first issue (with first line of type on p. 270 duplicated on top of p. 271). Octavo, 272 pp. Original brown cloth, front cover blind-stamped, spine panel stamped in black, top edge of text block stained brown, brown endpapers. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3118. $450. One of the classics of modern literature. The story of how a young boy survives the horrors of WWII in Europe. The author was born in Poland in 1933 and came to the U.S. in 1957. "Although there is nothing overtly fantastic in the book, the extremity of the events rendered in meticulous detail by the boy's flat, almost clinically detached voice gives the novel the feeling of a long, protracted surrealistic nightmare." -- Barron (ed.) Horror Literature, 4-195. Listed (with an asterisk) in the appendix to King's Danse Macabre. Jones & Newman (eds.) Horror: 100 Best Books (#62).
Seller: Robert Eldridge, Bookseller, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. THE PAINTED BIRD. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, first state with the repeating line of type at the top of pp. 270. A near fine copy of this highly acclaimed novel in brown cloth, black titles to the spine in a correctly priced, $4.95, near fine bright pictorial dustwrapper showing light use with a few tiny tears at the top edge. 8vo. 272 pp.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like jacket. First Edition Stated $4.95 On Flap. Kosinski Masterpiece. Without Wear. Beautiful Copy. Scarce in This Condition.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. THE PAINTED BIRD. NOTES OF THE AUTHOR. Signed. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$535.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Jerzy Kosinski on the front free endpaper to Canadian novelist, Elizabeth Smart, best known for her celebrated work, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept, fictionalizing her many - year relationship with the poet George Barker. A near fine copy in white glossy, stiff card wrappers, as issued, printed in black and showing some light sunning at the edges. 8vo. 29 pp.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 234 pages. First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Leo & Diane Dillon. His first novel under his real name. First issue with the same line at the top of page 270 & 271. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the corners. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy.. The Painted Bird.. Houghton, Mifflin and Company., Boston, 1965.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. ( Slim chip at crest of spine on jacket. ) Author's critically acclaimed FIRST novel. ; 5 3/4" x 8 1/2"; 272 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991). The Painted Bird. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$871.52 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 272 pages; Signed, inscribed and dated by the author. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Europe, Eastern--Fiction. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction. Abandoned children--Fiction. [Positively revised from the first edition becoming, as a consequence the author's definintive edition]. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 272 pages. First American edition, first printing. Dust jacket design by Leo & Diane Dillon. His first novel under his real name. First issue with the same line at the top of page 270 & 271. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Front hinge at fep separating. Jacket spine ends taped, one small chip top back spine end. Thin red marker stripe bottom edge at spine. A few small page corner creases. Pencil price marks half title page.
Seller: SuzyQBooks, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy (1933-1991). The Painted Bird. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
Price: US$964.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. ; 272 pages; Signed, inscribed and dated by the author. Subjects: World War, 1939-1945--Europe, Eastern--Fiction. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945--Fiction. Abandoned children--Fiction. [Positively revised from the first edition becoming, as a consequence the author's definintive edition]. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jerzy Kosinski. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A crisp, very sharp copy of the 1965 stated 1st printing. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY JERZY KOSINSKI on the title page. Clean and Near Fine in a bright, price-intact ($4.95), easily Near Fine to Fine dustjacket, with just the slightest hint of light rubbing along the spine. Octavo, iconic jacket design by noted children's illustrators and authors Leo and Diane Dillon. A lovely copy.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Kosinski, Jerzy. The Painted Bird. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1965.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing, first issue with the top line of page 270 also appearing at the top of page 271, though the line on page 270 crossed out in pencil. A presentation copy signed in the year of publication by Jerzy Kosinski, "For Mr. Harold D. Klipstein - with appreciation." Bound in publisher's original brown cloth with author's name in blind on the upper board and titles stamped in black on the spine. Near Fine with front and rear inner hinges repaired. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light foxing and light toning. A nice copy of the author's first novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
KOSINSKI, JERZY. The Painted Bird. Boston Houghton Mifflin 1965, 1965.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author, Jerzy Kosinski, to fellow writer, Wayne Warga and his wife. Inscribed: ÒFor Wayne and Carol, affectionately, with much thought. Jerzy. March 1982.Ó above which he has drawn a bird. Additionally signed ÒJerzy Kosinski.Ó Wayne Warga was a friend of Kosinski and interviewed him for The Los Angeles Times. Near fine copy with just a faint hint of fading to the cloth at the edges in a very good plus lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few small tears. From the library of journalist and novelist Wayne Warga. The youngest editor at Life Magazine at age 25, Warga reported on John F. KennedyÕs race for the Presidency, and went on to cover the Civil Rights movement for the magazine. For many years, Warga was one of the leading writers at the Los Angeles Times where he did in depth articles and features on writers and people in the arts. Later, Warga became a mystery novelist, creating three well-received bibliomysteries: Hardcover, Fatal Impressions, and Singapore Transfer, featuring Los Angeles rare book dealer, Jeffrey Dean.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.