Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Diane Wakoski. The Ring. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1977, 1977.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Fine glassine jacket. Number 136 of 140 copies signed by Wakoski. Thin tall 8vo.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane.. The Ring.. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1977.
Price: US$39.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Limited signed, one of 140 numbered copies. Fine in slightly scuffed clear acetate dj.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane. THE RING [SIGNED]. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1977.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 68 of 140 special hardcover numbered copies hand signed by the author. Fine hardcover in a fine clear acetate dust jacket as issued. A very bright and fine copy.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Diane Wakoski. THE RING. The Black Sparrow Press, 1977.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine crisp copy in a fine crisp acetate wrapper. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 140 hardcover copies. This is copy #46. A very nice copy. Very clean and bright. = We ship all books with Delivery Confirmation. = We have been selling Used Books for over 30 years.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. The Ring.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1977.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Handbinding by Emily Paine. One of 140 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane.. THE RING.. Black Sparrow Press: Santa Barbara., 1977.
Price: US$57.50 + shipping
Description: 10.75 x 7.5, cloth backed boards, unpag, vg in slightly torn acetate dw. ONE OF 140 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR (extra label present).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. The Ring (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1977.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Quarto. Unpaginated volume of poems. #77/140 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. A volume of poems. A near fine clean copy in acetate wrapper. Extra spine label laid in.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. THE RING. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Hardcover. Quarto.Unpaginated. Designated "Printer's Copy," SIGNED BY WAKOSKI. This copy from Graham Mackintosh's own collection has a tipped-in ink drawing. Half decorated paper over boards, with cloth spine. Light toning to edges and a couple light spots (foxing) on cover. Glassine dust jacket. From the colophon: ".40 numbered copies handbound in boards by Emily Paine, each with an original ink drawing by Diane Wakoski."
Seller: Lost Horizon Bookstore, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Wakoski (Diane). The Ring.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition., 1977.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Decorative pictorial boards, blue cloth spine with printed spine label. Purple end papers. Acetate dust jacket. A fine copy. Indicated as the "Author's Copy" on the colophon page, signed by Wakoski on the colophon page and again on the title page, with some small ink drawings by her beneath the signature. The entire edition was 180 copies.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Wakoski, Diane.. THE RING.. Black Sparrow Press: Santa Barbara., 1977.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Description: 10.75 x 7.5, cloth backed boards, unpag, vg in acetate dw. ONE OF ONLY 40 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITH AN ORIG DRAWING TIPPED IN (extra label present).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. The Ring.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1977.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. [20 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Handbinding by Emily Paine. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Wakoski with an original ink titled and signed drawing tipped-on opposite the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by Wakoski, "For the Martins - who always / pick up this hitchhiker and, thus, / do not have to worry about / sizzling in hell. / Diane."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.