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Berlin, Lucia. Homesick: New and Selected Stories. Black Sparrow Press, 1990.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. Octavo. SIGNED by author with a personal inscription to Keith Abbott. Fading to spine otherwise very good. Poet and author Keith Kumasen Abbott was a colleague of Berlin s at Naropa University where he taught writing and art. He is perhaps best remembered for his memoir of Richard Brautigan, with whom he was a friend.
Seller: Abacus Books, ABAA/ILAB, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. Homesick: New and Selected Stories. Black Sparrow Press, 1990.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. SIGNED by author. Softcover book is sunned on the spine and a tiny bit along the top front edge. Otherwise clean copy.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Berlin, Lucia. Homesick: New and Selected Stories. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1990.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed, limited issue. #30 of 125 copies signed by Lucia Berlin. Very Good+ hardcover in Near Fine transparent acetate jacket. Board corners bumped; light bump to head of boards; very light abrasions along base of boards. First six pages lightly creased along top edge and not completely level with remainder of text block. Priced so as to account for this light cosmetic damage; a clean, very lightly worn copy of this genuinely scarce title.
Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Limited Issue. #16/125 copies bound into boards, Numbered on the colophon, SIGNED by Berlin on a leaf after the copyright page, in publisher's milky acetate dustwrapper. Fine in a Fine jacket. 280pp. Uncommonly nice copy. Q12582
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing, wrappered issue. Octavo (22.75cm); pictorial card wrappers; [12],13-280,[4]pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper, the month following publication, to poet and playwright Sidney Goldfarb: "December, 1994 / Happy New Year, Sidney. I hope to see you often / Love / Lucia." Light wear to extremities, sunning to spine, with a one inch band of sunning along the upper edge of the front wrapper; Very Good+. Berlin's first book published by the Black Sparrow Press, collecting short stories written between 1977-1990, including "Angel's Laundromat," and the highly-regarded "Manual for Cleaning Women." Inscribed to Berlin's close friend Sidney Goldfarb, who together with Marilyn Krysl, Peter Michelson, and Reg Saner established the renowned Creative Writing Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1975. In the summer of 1981, Goldfarb and Ed Dorn produced the literary newspaper Rolling Stock, where Berlin was a frequent contributor until the paper folded in 1991. Thanks to both Dorn and Goldfarb's influence, she began a two-year teaching position as Visiting Writer at UC Boulder, where she wrote much of the best of her later short fiction, and where she was awarded a prize for teaching excellence, resulting in her promotion to associate professor. Meaningful literary inscriptions in Berlin's books are uncommon in commerce.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.