Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Roditi, Edouard. Thrice Chosen. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$24.10 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Touch of browning to the spine. Laid in is a signed letter from Edouard Roditi.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Roditi, Edouard. Thrice Chosen. Black Sparrow Press, 1981.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Edouard Roditi on a blank page after the title page. Hand-numbered at the back, number 107 of 200 signed copies. Text is unmarked; pages are bright. Binding is tight and square. Covers show some light wear around the corners. 137pp.
Seller: Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Roditi, Edouard. Thrice chosen. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1981.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: #8 of 200 hardbound, numbered and signed copies. Very good, no markings other than author signature on blank page following copyright page. In clear plastic dust cover, as issued. Pictorial boards. Jacket has scuffing.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. 137 pages. Copy 116 from an edition of 200 handbound copies in boards by Earle Gray. A collection of poetry. A fine copy in a very good plus glassine jacket that is lightly rubbed with a small tear to the top of the rear panel, minor creasing to the top of the spine, and slight bumping to the top of the spine. Signed by Roditi opposite the copyright page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Roditi, Edouard. Thrice Chosen (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardbound first edition in clear acetate wrapper. 137 pp. A few handling marks to rear board else a handsome very good copy in clear acetate. One of 200 specially SIGNED copies.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Roditi, Edouard. Thrice chosen. Black Sparrow Press, 1981, 1981.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in a Fine jacket. Number 141 of 200 signed. 1st Edition
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Roditi, Edouard.. Thrice Chosen.. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1981.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Limited Edition. #4/200 hardcover copies, numbered on the colophon and SIGNED by the Author on a leaf after the copyright page. 137pp. Verse. Includes a few translations at end. A Fine copy in clear acetate dustwrapper. Q07602
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
RODITI, EDOUARD. Thrice Chosen. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth and pictorial boards. Glassine wrapper. (137pp). SIGNED LIMITED EDITION 200 COPIES ONLY, THIS BEING NO. 11. Top edge lightly foxed, else fine Size: Royal Octavo
Seller: C.P. Collins Booksellers, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia
RODITI, Edouard.. Thrice Chosen.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1981.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 137 pp. Fine in printed paper covered-boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Roditi.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
RODITI, Edouard. Thrice Chosen. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine in a nearly fine lightly rubbed clear plastic dustwrapper. Number 166 of 200 copies numbered and signed by the author. Etching on the cover by Mordecai Moreh.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Edouard Roditi. Thrice Chosen. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1981.
Price: US$116.30 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edouard Roditi's collection of poems and translations, a lovely first limited edition signed by the author. A moving collection of poetry and translations by Edouard Roditi composed during the rise and fall of the Third Reich, a tribute to the author's Jewish-mystic heritage. As an American student studying in Berlin, Edouard Roditi witnessed the atrocious rise of German anti-Semitism; this inspired him to learn and celebrate his culture.The first edition of this work, limited to two hundred hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author, the present being number one hundred and ninety seven. Complete with its original clear plastic dust wrapper. In the original publisher's quarter cloth binding over illustrated paper covered boards. Externally lovely. The dust wrapper is unclipped and excellent. Signed by the author to a front blank page. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
RODITI, Edouard.. Thrice Chosen.. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1981., 1981.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original 1/2 multicolored cloth over lavender boards, paper spine label. Fine. Acetate dust jacket. Signed by Roditi on page after title page, with a signed and numbered etching by Mordecai Moreh laid-in (#19/50). #19/50 numbered copies.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
RODITI, Edouard.. Thrice Chosen.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1981.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 137 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Cover illustration by Mordecai Moreh. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Roditi. As in the deluxe issue of this title, this copy has an original signed etching by Moreh, but designated "h.c. 3/6."
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: THRICE CHOSEN - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Moreh, Mordecai (illustrator) Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1981. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of probably a half-dozen copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, printer, and the publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on a preliminary leaf. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and patterned cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; [6],7-137,[7]pp. Laid into this copy is an original signed etching by Israeli artist Mordecai Moreh, numbered "H.C. 5/6" at lower margin. Some scattered foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Roditi's second book published by the press, a collection of poems and translations, with a preface by the author, and a foreword by Paul Goodman. Deluxe Issue, specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, printer, and the publisher's files, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on a preliminary leaf.
Seller: Rare Books Honolulu, Honolulu, HI, U.S.A.