Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
EVERSON, William. Birth of a Poet. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1982.
Price: US$37.68 + shipping
Description: 197pp. One of 250 hardcover copies numbered [#29] and signed by the poet. In original glassine jacket. Some faint shelfwear to the extremities, otherwise fine. Size: 235x160mm
Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada
Everson, William. Birth of a Poet -- Signed. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Number 225 of a Limited Edition of 250 copies, SIGNED BY EVERSON on the limitation page. Fine in a fine example of the original acetate wrapper.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
William Everson. Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982 #2/250 copies, signed and numbered to the colophon. Foxing to top edge of text block. Near fine in a glassine wrapper.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Everson, William (Lee Bartlett, Ed.). Birth of a Poet. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: This is a mint copy. It is limited to 250 copies in this format. It is numbered #162
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
Everson, William. Birth of a Poet. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1982.
Price: US$56.52 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Edition of 750 hardcover trade copies. This one signed by William Everson on the title-page. Quarter navy coloured cloth with paper spine label and paper boards. A very tiny bump to one corner, else a fine copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Trade Edition. Signed by the author directly to the title page. The book is fine, in quarter cloth and printed paper covered boards. Complete with original acetate wrapper. From the esteemed modern first collection of Joy Kritzer; please be sure to check out the other William Everson/Black Sparrow titles in my inventory. I ship all of my books bubble-wrapped in sturdy, very well-padded boxes, so they are guaranteed to arrive in the exact same condition as when they left. Please feel free to email with any questions/offers/trades and thank you for supporting small independent booksellers everywhere.
Seller: Dexter's Book Cellar, Stratford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: ix + 197 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Lee Bartlett. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
William Everson. Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations. Black Sparrow Press, 1982.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Birth of a Poet: The Santa Cruz Meditations, Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. #14/50, signed and numbered to the colophon. Additionally signed by Everson to the flyleaf, Escape all the pitfalls as infant or child, or adolescent sorrow or later a trauma awaits you. if everything else fails there s always love. That ll make you cry!
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$134.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition. Edited by Lee Bartlett. Number 26 of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and containing a manuscript quote, signed by the author, bound in after the titlepage. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: ix + 197 pp w/notes. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Lee Bartlett. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson with a SIGNED five line holograph poem tipped-in after the title page. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Deluxe issue. Number 36 of 50 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON beneath the colophon at rear and with SIGNED HOLOGRAPH POEM tipped in following the title page. (There were also 250 signed, numbered copies in slightly different binding without the holograph poem as well as a trade issue in both paperwraps and hardcover.) Fine as issued in publisher's clear acetate dust jacket.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of probably no more than a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for use by the author, publisher, and members within the inner circle of the press, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Everson on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); printed paper-covered boards and grey patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; ix,[x-xvi],17-197,[7]pp; with an original holograph poem by Everson on a tipped-in leaf, following the copyright page. Light foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine, in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. An intensely autobiographical work by Everson, with an introduction by editor Lee Bartlett.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Description: Deluxe issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by Everson with an original holograph poem tipped in, this being no.29. Octavo; 3/4 printed paper-covered boards over quarter patterned cloth, with paper spine label attached; original acetate dustjacket; 197pp, [4]. Fine in a Near Fine, lightly wrinkled acetate wrapper.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: ix + 197 pp w/notes. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Edited and with an introduction by Lee Bartlett. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Everson. As in the deluxe issue, there is an original holograph poem by Everson tipped in after the title page.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.