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Cossery, Albert. Proud Beggars. Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A very fine mint copy. This is #119 of 200 created in this manner.
Seller: Northmont Books and Stamps, Farmington Hills., MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.20 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Beginning with a murder in a Cairo brothel before heading off to the author's preferred locale among urban the poor; #161/200 copies signed by the author, translation by Thomas W. Cushing. Spots of foxing to extremities and edges, else fine in transparent dustwrapper as issued.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Albert Cossery. Proud beggars. Black Sparrow Press January 1981, 1981.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa; 1981. Limited edition #6/200, signed by the author. Original acetate jacket rubbed and lightly chipped. Blue cloth spine with paper label. Color title page. Book VG+.
Seller: Copperfield's Used and Rare Books, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.
COSSERY, Albert. Proud Beggars. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Translated by Thomas W. Cushing. Foxing and a tiny nick on topedge, else near fine in a near fine acetate dust jacket with modest rubbing and a small crease. One of 200 copies numbered and Signed by the author.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Cossery, Albert. Proud beggars. Black Sparrow Press, 1981, 1981.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Fine acetate jacket. Number 193 of 200 signed. First Edition.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
COSSERY, Albert.. Proud Beggars.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1981.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 190 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Translated from the French by Thomas W. Cushing. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Cossery.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.