Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Koch, Kenneth. When the Sun tries to go on. Black Sparrow Press, New York, 1969.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound glossy illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very Good with crease to front cover and light soiling to lower cover, else fine. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Notes: A poem. Originally appeared in the Hasty papers "This book is published in three editions: 1500 copies in paper wrappers; 200 copies handbound in boards signed by the author & artist; & 5 special copies in a portfolio with an original collage by Larry Rivers, signed by the author & artist"--Colophon. First edition, wrappered issue, one of 1500 copies.
Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Koch, Kenneth.. When the Sun Tries To Go On.. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in glossy wrappers. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Mild discoloration spots to rear cover, else Fine. 113pp. A poem in 100 sections. Q06565
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.58 + shipping
Description: EA, 115 S., OKart., gut erhalten Sprache: Englisch. Aufgrund der EPR-Regelung kann in folgende Länder KEIN Versand mehr erfolgen: Bulgarien, Frankreich, Griechenland, Luxemburg, Österreich, Polen, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Spanien.
Seller: Wolfgang Rüger, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Koch, Kenneth. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$48.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback, illustrated by Larry Rivers. A well-preserved copy: the lightest of shelfwear on covers; rear lightly marked; page block a little tanned. Text and images are clear throughout, and pages are clean and sound. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Koch, Kenneth.. When the Sun Tries To Go On.. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of 1500 copies in decorated wrappers (design by Larry Rivers). 113pp. A long poem in 100 sections. Fine copy. Q16624
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
KOCH, Kenneth. When The Sun Tries To go On. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$75.39 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 1500 copies [of 1705] bound in stiff paper wrappers. Black and white and colour plates throughout.
Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada
KOCH, Kenneth. WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON. Black Sparrow Press,, Los Angeles,, 1969.
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Signed. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. Illustrated in colour and b/w by Larry Rivers. 113pp. Attractive hardcover, bound in original publisher's yellow cloth with a full color, raised three dimensional collage, covered in the original clear acetate wrapper. Number 55 out of 200 copies, signed by both the author and artist. Fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Koch, Kenneth. WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1969.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. 1969. 113pp. 1st edition. A hardcover, bound in yellow cloth with a full color, raised three dimensional collage, covered in the original clear acetate wrapper. Number 84 out of 200 copies, signed by both the author and artist.In near fine condition.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
KOCH, Kenneth. WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 200 signed and numbered copies. The cover features a 3 dimensional collage by artist Larry Rivers who has also created several illustrations for the text. Signed by both KENNETH KOCH and LARRY RIVERS. A postcard invitation to a publication party for the book at the Gotham Book Mart is loosely inserted.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Small Octavo, 113pp., Original clear acetate wrapper. Color and black and white plates by Larry Rivers throughout. Limited to 200 copies specially bound, and signed by Kenneth Koch and Larry Rivers. Besides the standard signatures on the colophon page of this edition, this copy is inscribed by Kenneth Koch and dated on the title page. Very uncommon.
Seller: Sean Fagan, Rare Books, Buford, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Double Signature. Small square 8vo. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Bound in yellow cloth with full color raised pictorial on-lay collage on the front cover. Several color illustrations by Rivers.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Koch, Kenneth; Rivers, Larry. WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed limited handbound edition of this illustrated book by frequent New York School collaborators Rivers and Koch, the product of friendly poetic competition between Koch and Frank O'Hara. Originally composed in 1953 but not published until 1969, WHEN THE SUN TRIES TO GO ON "was Koch's most concerted effort to simulate in poetry the effects of Abstract Expressionism. It was an attempt to present language at its most animated, liberated from the need to make ordinary sense." 7.25'' x 5.5''. Original yellow cloth with paper spine label and collage mounted on front board. Ochre endpapers. In original acetate protective jacket. Illustrated by Rivers. 113, [3] pages. Edition of 200 copies handbound in boards, signed by the author and artist. This copy no. 97, signed by Koch and Rivers at colophon.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Issue in wrappers, about Fine, INSCRIBED by both.(HP4)
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
[Rivers, Larry] Koch, Kenneth. When the Sun Tries to Go On. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1969.
Price: US$1320.00 + shipping
Description: One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author, Koch, and the artist, Larry RIVERS. Illustrated and with a three-dimensional collage serving as cover by the noted American artist, Larry Rivers. Page size: 7-3/8 inches x 5-7/16 inches. Bound: yellow cloth with Rivers' collage in pink, yellow, and black on various levels, original acetate jacket. A fine copy of what is probably the best-designed book published by Black Sparrow, housed in green cloth slipcase with red morocco labels.
Seller: Priscilla Juvelis Inc., ABAA, Kennebunkport, ME, U.S.A.