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Clark, Tom. BLUE. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974., 1974.
Price: US$26.50 + shipping
Description: SIGNED first edition - First printing in wrappers, issued simultaneously with a limited signed hardcover edition. SIGNED on the title page by the poet. The cover illustration is of Vida Blue - the subject, at least partly of the title poem. Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Clark, Tom. Blue. Black Sparrow Press, 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 80pp., #42 of 200 copies signed by the author. Fine condition in a clear glassine dust jacket.
Seller: J. HOOD, BOOKSELLERS, ABAA/ILAB, Baldwin City, KS, U.S.A.
CLARK, Tom.. Blue.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 80 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Short poems, illustrated with Clark's own artwork. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Clark with an original drawing. This is copy "A." Morrow & Cooney 184c.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Blue Cloth. Fine in an about fine publisher's unprinted acetate dust jacket with slight rubbing. Autographed edition limited to 50 copies. Black Sparrow supplements 13 to 24 bound together and Signed by the authors at their contributions. Work by Larry Eigner, Robert Creeley, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Michael McClure, Tom Clark, Clayton Eshleman, Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Kelly, Diane Wakoski, Gerard Malanga, Antonin Artaud, Jerome Rothenberg.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Wonderful association typescript of this long poem from Tom Clark, consisting of part I (of II), which was originally published in "Sparrow 27," the monthly publication from the Black Sparrow Press. Clark was an early supporter and longtime friend of American poet, Alice Notley and her husband, the late Ted Berrigan. Clark's inscription on the final page indicates this as being quite an early draft, gives some color, and references Notley's own publication, a magazine of the same name: "Alice - here are sections to date* from my latest giant work - I think this and 9 songs are the best of the stuff I sent you. Eh? So.played b-ball with Jim Carroll yesterday.etc. How are you? *unseen by human eyes till now. Tom PS send a few Chicagos if you have extras?" The handwritten note from Clark is also quite entertaining, lamenting the price of postage for attempting to send Notley's son a sweater: "It's orange and has black panda bears from New Zealand. Or maybe they're kiwis." A superb set from Clark to Notley, the two being principal voices in American poetry of the latter half of the 20th century. Carbon copy typescript on onion skin. 4pp., typed recto only, hand corrections in blue marker, signed by Clark on final page. Additionally inscribed with a seven line note in pencil to Notley. ALS, 10 lines on 14x6cm trimmed paper, written recto only in blue ink and signed Tom. Original mailing envelope hand addressed to Notley in Essex. Two copies of Sparrow 27, the original publication of "Chicago," in stapled wraps. All very good or better with occasional smudging or staining. Some foxing to envelope and edges of typescript
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.