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Schwerner, Armand. The Tablets I - VIII (Signed). The Cummington Press, West Branch, 1968.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Delicate clothbound 4to. #80 of 320 hand-numbered and SIGNED copies. Printed on delicate laced paper. This copy with some age spotting to cloth covers and some toning in areas. Lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Schwerner, Armand. The Tablets I-VIII. Cummington Press, 1968.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Edition limited to 320 numbered copies. Light rubbing.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Schwerner, Armand. THE TABLETS I-IVIII. Cummington Press, West Branch, Iowa, 1968.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Original decorative paper wrappers, wrap around paper label on spine; tall 8vo, [32pp.]. Hand printed on Okawara paper by Harry Duncan and David Pollen. Number 176 of 320 total copies; the first 150 copies were signed by the author and had a title page illustration. Fine.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$62.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 320 copies (this, no. 185), tall 8vo, pp. [32]; original decorative paper wrappers, wrap around paper label on spine; generally fine. Hand-printed on Okawara paper by Harry Duncan and David Pollen. The first 150 copies in the edition were signed by the author and had an illustrated title page. From the library of Kim Merker.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Schwerner, Armand.. The Tablets I-viii.. Cummington Press, West Branch, 1968.
Price: US$72.00 + shipping
Description: One of 320 numbered copies bound in decorated paper wraps. Very good condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Schwerner, Armand. The Tablets I-VIII.. Cummington Press, 1968.
Price: US$96.24 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover in original cloth covered boards with paper title label, pages are uncut at edges and printed on Okawara paper, no dustwrapper, slightly bumped corners but otherwise in Fine condition. Limited Signed edition of 150 [82], etching on title page by Carol Heinberg Yeh exclusive to limited signed edition, unpaginated. Armand Schwerner was an avant-garde Jewish-American poet. His most famous work, Tablets, is a series of poems which claim to be reconstructions of ancient Sumero-Akkadian inscriptions, complete with lacunae and "untranslatable" words.
Seller: Deeside Books, Ballater, United Kingdom
Schwerner, Armand. The Tablets I-VIII. The Cummington Press, IA, 1968.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Ltd to 320 copies of which this is No.182. Printed by Harry Duncan. Fine.
Seller: Books Anonymous, Hudson, NY, U.S.A.
Schwerner, Armand. The Tablets; I-VIII . .. The Cummington Press, West Branch (Iowa), 1968.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, unpag.; natural linen with printed label. One of 150 numbered copies signed by Schwerner (out of the total edition of 300), hand printed on Okawara paper by Harry Duncan and David Pollen; this copy with a nice typed letter signed by Duncan in 1967 to poet Harvey Shapiro, written to thank Shapiro for suggesting that he print this book. A significant association copy. Fine in the original unprinted handmade paper dust jacket, torn and with resultant rumpling.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 320 copies (this, no. 86), tall 8vo, pp. [32]; original cream linen, printed paper label on upper cover; generally fine but lacking the plain, unprinted dust jacket. Hand printed on Okawara paper by Harry Duncan and David Pollen. The first 150 copies in the edition (as here) are signed by the author and have an illustrated title page with a plate etched and wiped by Carol Heinberg Yeh. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.