Meltzer, David. Hero/Lil--Signed. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1973.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973. First Edition. Signed by Meltzer on the colophon; number 23 of 175 hardcover copies. Octavo (24.25cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket and green marbled paper slipcase. Hint of foxing to text edges, and very light soiling to front board. else very good. In a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. An attractive copy of Meltzer's two long mystical poems, portions of which first appeared in the pages of Matrix, Davka, and Yes! Press Free Poems. Wallace Berman's cover art was inadvertently uncredited in both the first state of the wrappered issue, as well as the cloth and deluxe issue.

Seller: Stellar Books & Ephemera, ABAA, Moab, UT, U.S.A.

MELTZER, David. HERO/LIL. Black Sparrow, Los Angeles, 1973.

Price: US$76.00 + shipping

Description: Large 8vo, pp. 86. One of 175 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the poet. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Fine in slightly scuffed acrylic dj. Poems.

Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.

Meltzer, David. Hero/Lil. Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1973.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 86 [1]p., author's original illustrations original half-cloth with printed boards, in the original publisher's slipcase. SIGNED by the author. "Printed March 1973 in Santa Barbara for the Black Sparrow PRess by Noel Youn. Design by Barbara Martin. 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray signed & with an original illustration by the poet." Letter "R" in red ink, followed by the author's signature. The original illustration appears on the blank leaf following the verso of the titlepage.

Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.