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Paul Auster. Unearth (Living Hand 3). Living Hand, Weston, CT, 1974.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (1974). Slim 8vo. 1st edition. Slight darkening and wear to edges of generally toned textblock with slight bumping to textblock corners. Slight wear and uneven discoloration to edges of gently rubbed wrappers with light bumping to forecorners. Light wear to ends of faded spine with more significant bumping to head end with faint creasing that extends into wrappers. VG in wrappers.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first English-language edition, printed by the Compton Press and limited to 1,000 numbered copies (although it would appear that none of them were actually numbered). 8vo. 71pp. Lettered card wrappers with French flaps. A trace of very light wear to several corner tips. Very good indeed. Auster's three-page introduction precedes sixty-seven pages of poems. This is generally considered to be Auster's second book following his verse collection 'Unearth' (1974), although strictly speaking 'Living Hand' was a periodical, issued "several times a year".
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Auster, Paul. UNEARTH - LIVING HAND, 3. , 1974.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Periodical/Journal]. Living Hand 3, (1974). 1st Edition/Printing. Unpaginated. Paperbound, stiff grey card covers. Spine is a bit sun stained. Otherwise a clean and fresh copy. Pages are crisp. VG+.
Seller: Ilium Books, Somerville, MA, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. Unearth: Living Hand 3. Living Hand, CT, 1974.
Price: US$170.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good w/ very faint tanning around spine. Collection of poems.
Seller: Books Anonymous, Hudson, NY, U.S.A.
Paul Auster. Unearth. Living Hand, 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED, without inscription, by Paul Auster on the title page. This copy has the hand pencil correction, apparently by Paul Auster, of "into" (for "to") on the eleventh page of the text. The volume is sunned on the spine, lightly toned on the perimeters, and both the cover and pages have a mild bump on the bottom corner. Still very good with tight binding.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, Weston, CT, 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the poet and novelist's first book. Published as Living Hand 3. Unpaginated. Some typical light fade to edges of covers. Overall, a handsome very good copy of the poet's debut.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Paul Auster. Unearth. Living Hand, 1974.
Price: US$180.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first. Warmly inscribed by author. To/into typo hand corrected. Slight fading to spine, reaching round to rear cover and a little to top of front cover. All printing on spine unaffected. Weak diagonal crease to front cover, and a faint bend to top right hand corner that is shows a little through pages. But very good overall for a 50 year old paper back
Seller: Strangford Lough Books, Killyleagh, DOWN, United Kingdom
Auster, Paul (inscribed). Unearth [=Living Hand 3]. Living Hand, Weston, CT, 1974.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The true first of Auster's first book, not since reprinted, with the correction in the author's hand: "/into" for "to" in "speak in you," an apt echo of Celan in a poem (Ice--means nothing) clearly indebted to the poet, presumably encountered in Neugroschel's marvelous collection, Speech-Grille (1971), Location:80 Inscribed "in friendship" to Joachim Neugroschel, whose translation of Celan's "Todesfuge" forms the centerpice of Auster's essay on the poet. Covers worn, toned, corners bumped. 80
Seller: Schoen Books, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul. UNEARTH. Living Hand (1974), (Weston, CT), 1974.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: Printed blue wraps. One of 1000 copies printed of this volume of poetry, the third volume of the publisher's series and Auster's first original work after two translations. Not published in hardcover. Slight sunning to spine extending to cover. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul.. Unearth.. Weston: Living Hand (1974)., 1974.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: [44 pp]. Spine sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers. Auster's first collection of poems, issued as Living Hand 3.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
PAUL AUSTER.. Unearth. Poems. (INSCRIBED BY THE PRINTER). Living Hand 3, Connecticut, 1974.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of the author's first book, issued here as the third number of the occasional periodical 'Living Hand', printed at The Compton Press, Wiltshire and "published several times a year". Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Lettered card wrappers, lightly faded at the spine and with a narrow strip of very faint toning to the fore edge margin of the upper wrapper, yet still considerably fresher than is usually found. This copy inscribed in pencil at the head of the first leaf by the printer Humphrey [Stone] to his brother-in-law Jonathan [Gili]. Very good indeed. Thirty-three poems, the author's first book, preceded only be a couple of translations from the French.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Auster, Paul.. Unearth.. Living Hand, Weston, Connecticut, 1974.
Price: US$265.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Issued as Living Hand 3. Fine but for slight fading of extremities of pale blue wrappers. Unpaginated. 33 pages of text, dated 1970-72. Author's first book, following a mimeo. Q14885
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, 1974.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Auster's first book. Warmly inscribed to Bob (Perelman). Scarce.
Seller: Hiding Place Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, Weston, CT, 1974.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Inscribed copy of the first original book, a collection of poems, by the author of The New York Trilogy, etc. Weston, CT: Living Hand, 1974. First edition. 24pp. 8vo. Saddle-stitched in wraps. Moderate sunning to spine and covers; an area of light soiling to front cover at fore-edge; toning to edges of leaves; inscribee’s ownership seal blind-embossed to title page. About very good, with a penciled correction, presumably in Auster’s hand, to the eleventh poem. Signed and inscribed by Auster to the half-title: “For John– In friendship. Paul.” The third publication of Living Hand, the imprint Auster ran with his then-wife Lydia Davis.
Seller: Dividing Line Books, Ridgewood, NY, U.S.A.
Paul Auster. Unearth. Living Hand, Weston, Connecticut, 1974.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Auster's first book. Unread. Near fine with Moderate sunning to spine and edges of blue wrappers (very common with this title), else fine. One of 1000 copies. More photos available on request. All orders are shipped in a sturdy box.
Seller: Artos Fine Books, EDMOND, OK, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, 1974.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Smyth-sewn in wrappers. The author's first book issued as Living Hand, no. 3. Nicely inscribed to fellow poets and his future publishers, Laura Chester and Geoff Young (The Figures). Autograph correction to one poem. Light toning to extremities, a clean sharp copy with significant association.
Seller: Granary Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Auster, Paul. Unearth: Living Hand 3 (Signed). Living Hand, Signed, 1974.
Price: US$455.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover in blue-gray matte wraps, sharp, mild age toning to edges. Book is firm in binding, crisp interior. Warmly SIGNED by the author, and dated 2005. Auster's first collection of poetry. Unpaginated. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; Signed by Author
Seller: KULTURAs books, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul.. Unearth.. Living Hand, Weston, Connecticut., 1974.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. Unpaginated. Wrappers - there was no hardbound issue. The author's first collection of his own poems, preceded by the mimeographed publication of his translations of French verse.Presentation copy from the author to a fellow poet and translator, inscribed on the title-page: ''for Michael Hamburger - in admiration, Paul Auster''. This copy also has the single pencilled correction which seems to have been made by the author whenever inscribing this book.Covers faded at the spine and edges. Very good indeed.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Auster, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, (Weston, Connecticut), 1974.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, wrappers. unpag. Auster's first collection of original poems (preceded by the mimeo collection of his translations from French poets), this copy has been inscribed and signed by Auster to fellow poet Christopher Middleton. With the usual correction in pencil to one poem. Spine and top edge sunned, else fine.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
AUSTER, Paul. Unearth. Living Hand, (Weston, Connecticut), 1974.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Octavo. Printed pale blue wrappers. Sunning at the extremities of the wrappers and on the spine, near fine. The author's first solely authored book (preceded by some translations), a collection of poetry issued as "Living Hand" 3. This copy Inscribed by Auster to the noted novelist Mary McCarthy: "For Mary McCarthy - In admiration - and with my very best regards - Paul Auster." Also with a single correction in the text by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.