Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Diane Wakoski. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1973.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Signed by author to title page with personalized inscription. Matte wraps with mild edgewear, toning and soil; 6" diagonal crease to front cover. Binding sound, spine not creased, text clean. Small browned sticker ghost inside front cover. No stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 50 pp.
Seller: Albion Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. GREED, PARTS 8, 9, 11. [SIGNED]. Black Sparrow, 1973., 1973.
Price: US$17.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION of the simultaneous paperback issue; SIGNED, with a small drawing, by the author on the title page. Some sunning, otherwise fine.
Seller: Monroe Stahr Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. Greed Parts 8, 9, 11. Los Angeles Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited first edition of 250. This copy is number 4. 50 pages. Includes photograph of the author. Signed by author. No paper wraps. Very slight sun discoloration along cover edges, barely noticeable. Else, fine. (O5)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. GREED / PARTS 8, 9, 11. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1973.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine with slight discoloration to wrapper. SIGNED by the poet on title page. First printing with color inks on title page. This is the SOFTCOVER issue.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. GREED. Parts 8, 9, 11. Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Los Angeles:Black Sparrow Press. 1973. Limited, signed edition, No. 152 of 250 copies, numbered and signed on the colophon page. 50pp. Hardcover with acetate dust jacket. Top of boards and top page edges soiled, with a bit of sun fading to the very bottom of cover edges. Internally, pages clean, free of previous owners marks or signatures. The dust jacket is lightly soiled, else very good.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: 50 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Wakoski. Morrow & Cooney 145b.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11.. LA: Black Sparrow Press, 1973., 1973.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Broadside. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Wakoski. Published as Broadside/Flyer No. 6 that prints a poem and announces publication of the book. Printed in black and purple on light blue paper. Couple of trivial handling impressions, else fine.
Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 10 (broadside/flyer no. 6). Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$31.25 + shipping
Description: Broadside, 10 x 14 inches, printed in purple and black on blue. Advertising flyer for the book. 'And today I speak of this dark and handsome bird', opening line. Signed by the author. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, DIANE. GREED: PARTS 8,9,11. , 1973.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: WAKOSKI, Diane. GREED/ PARTS 8,9,11. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. 8vo., cloth & printed boards in acetate dust jacket. Signed, Limited Edition of 250 numbered copies. Additionally signed by Wakoski on the title page, with a tiny drawing. Fine. $35.00.
Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.
Diane Wakoski. Greed Parts 8,9, II. Black Sparrow Press, 1973.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This is #145/250 copies of this edition and is signed by the author on the limitation page. Fifty copies of this title also had a poem in holograph. The boards are quarter dark blue cloth with green-blue sea foam boards. The lettering, design is done in umber, various shades of blue, and purple. The end papers are also in purple in this 50 page volume.
Seller: Before Your Quiet Eyes, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. GREED. Parts 8, 9, 11. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973, 1973.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Tall 8vo., pp. 55. Decorated paper covered boards, paper spine label, clear acetate protective publisher's jacket. One of 300 copies, Numbered & Signed by Wakoski. Fine.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
WAKOSKI, Diane. Greed. Parts 8, 9, 11. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Some foxing to the boards, else near fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 50 handbound copies, Signed by Wakoski with an original holograph poem by her bound in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Wakoski, Diane. Greed: Parts 8,9, 11. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED. 46pp. Slim octavo [24.5 cm] 1/4 patterned cloth with printed paper over boards. Purple endpapers. Number 39 of 50 numbered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and signed with an original holograph poem (tipped in) by the poet. The subjects of Wakoski's poems are often intensely personal experiences, such as her unhappy childhood or her painful relationships with men.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
WAKOSKI, Diane.. Greed: Parts 8, 9, 11.. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow,, 1973.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 50 pp. Near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Wakoski with an original holograph poem tipped-in. Additionally, INSCRIBED by Wakoski on the title page, "For my favorite publisher & / book designer - we are / linked by our energies & ideas / Diane Wakoski."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: All four volumes Fine in Fine jackets. All signed limited editions.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.