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Clark, Tom. Paradise Resisted. Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1984, signed; illustrated paper covers; wear and discoloration around edges; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; author signature on title page; interior is clean and unmarked; 216 pages.
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
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Seller: Ann Open Book, Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
Clark, tom. Paradise Resisted Selected Poems 1978-1984. Black Sparrow Press, 1984.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: #21/200 copies signed by the poet. Fine in fine original vinyl dust jacket.
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
CLARK, Tom. PARADISE RESISTED SELECTED POEMS 1978-1984. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1984.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 26 of 200 copies, signed and numbered by the author. Design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. 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. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
CLARK, Tom.. Paradise Resisted: Selected Poems 1978-1984.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1984.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 216 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Clark.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 216 pp. Letter V of 26 specially bound copies SIGNED by Clark and with a signed drawing tipped in. A fine copy. No acetate with this copy.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe Issue, one of no more than a half-dozen copies specially bound and signed by the author for members within the inner circle of the press, each with an original signed illustration tipped in (this one marked "Binder's Copy" on the colophon). Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to the spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [12],13-216,[4]pp. Some faint spots on upper edge of textblock, else Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of poems, Clark's field guide to the American West.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.