Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 296 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and paper label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Chapters on Olson, Duncan, Snyder, Creeley, Bly, and Ginsberg. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Creeley, Duncan, Ginsberg, Snyder, and Bly. Additionally INSCRIBED by Faas to Barbara and John Martin on the title page.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, hardcover signed issue. Slight toning at the top edge of boards, else fine in fine original unprinted acetate dust jacket with modest rubbing. Copy number 10 of 125 numbered copies Signed by Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, and Allen Ginsberg.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$402.50 + shipping
Description: Portraits, 9.25 x 6.5, cloth backed boards, 296 pp, vg in acetate dw. COPY NO. 1 OF ONLY 125 NUMBERED COPIES, SIGNED BY 5 (OF THE 6) FEATURED AUTHORS.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Patterned quarter cloth over printed paper covered boards in clear acetate wrapper. 296 pp. A collection of essays and interviews with these giants of 20th century poetry. A handsome near fine copy in acetate. One of only 125 hand-bound and hand-numbered copiesand SIGNED by Duncan, Snyder, Creeley, Bly and Ginsberg (Not Olson as he passed away in 1970). Quite a scarce volume these days.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Faas, Ekbert (Editor). Towards a New American Poetics. Black Sparrow Press, 1978.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Black Sparrow Press - Santa Barbara 1978. First edition - hardcover - Number 28 of 125 copies - hand bound by Earle Gray. "Essays and Interviews" - Olson, Duncan, Snyder, Creeley, Bly, and Ginsberg. Signed by 5 of the 6 author poets on a tipped in leaf. Book condition Fine.
Seller: MCTbooks, Sandy, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 296 p. Audience: General/trade. Book is signed by Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley. A truly great collectible book. Very good in very good dust jacket. Light shelf wear to boards top and bottom edges. Acetate cover shows light wear but is strong. Two small "signed copy" stickers on acetate cover. #27 of 125 copies hardbound in boards, signed by five poets.
Seller: Outrider Book Gallery, Lacey, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$646.09 + shipping
Description: First edition, signed limited issue, one of 125 specially bound copies signed by all contributors except Olson, who passed away in 1970. Edited by Ekbert Faas, this title collects essays by and interviews with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Gary Snyder, Robert Creeley, Robert Bly, and Allen Ginsberg. Octavo. Original patterned cloth-backed blue paper boards, blue label on spine printed in grey and orange, front cover lettered in red, orange, and grey on light green ground within orange and black rules, orange endpapers. Housed in a custom green cloth chemise. Title page printed in red and orange. Edges sunned, outer corners of front cover gently bumped; a near-fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom