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Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems. Wesleyan University Press, 1962.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Softcover. Stiff black-and-white and pink pictorial covers of many figures, with black lettering on front cover and spine. Previous price sticker affixed to back cover over top ISBN. Binding is square and tight. Signed by author, John Ashbery, on title page. No date on title page. Copyright page dated 1962. Stated first printing. 94 pages plus page about publisher. Interiors are clean and unmarked. A very good copy.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: 8 x 6", grey cloth, 94pp, covers a little rubbed, extremities fraying, EX- LIBRARY with usual markings, but a FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (stated) First Printing in wraps SIGNED by John Ashbery with personalized inscription to last preliminary page ("to Dick Moore / best, John Ashbery"), no markings, no creases, slight shelf & edge wear to wraps, spine titles slightly faded with small bump to spine top, else a clean tight very nice signed copy of Ashbery's most enigmatic book and one of the scarcest in First Edition, issued simultaneously in hardand soft covers; 8vo; 94pp
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
ASHBERY, John.. The Tennis Court Oath.. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press,, 1962.
Price: US$839.91 + shipping
Description: First edition. Signed by the author on title-page. Barry Humphries' copy, with his bookplate. Slight mark to very tail of dust jacket flaps, with very slight corresponding mark to free endpapers, else near fine in very nice dust jacket, very slightly marked at head and tail of rear panel.
Seller: Paul Rassam ABA ILAB, Charlbury, United Kingdom
Ashbery, John. The Tennis Court Oath. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, CT, 1962.
Price: US$1900.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First edition stated. Publisher's grey cloth over boards with titles on spine. Signed by John Ashbery on the title page, inscribed to former owner. Grolier Book Shop ticket to front free end paper, rubbing to poet's name on spine, else Fine. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine panel, and revised price sticker over publisher's price. A lovely copy of the scarce cloth-bound issue, signed by the acclaimed American poet.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.