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$450.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, publisher’s copy. 292 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Bowles.$150.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, “Thirty Years Later,” composed for this reissue. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A6g. This is copy #1.$200.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 292 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, “Thirty Years Later,” composed for this reissue. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A6g.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1980. Advance reading copy. 292 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very near fine in light blue wrappers with pasted-on cover label. Stamped “Advance Copy” on the front free endpaper. One of ten copies. Miller A6e (note).
$75.00London: Peter Owen (1985). First British Commonwealth edition. 190 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket. First British Commonwealth appearance of these twenty stories. A less common Bowles title from Peter Owen. See Miller A46c.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 162 pp. Corners lightly tapped, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A38c.
$200.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 10 pp. Light sunning to extrems, else very near fine in sewn wrappers. Title page woodcut by Henry Shire. Designed and printed by Saul and Lillan Marks. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Nine poems, dated 1934-1940. Miller 18a. Morrow & Cooney 29a.$25.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First trade paperback printing of this second edition. 406 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. New preface by Bowles, not in the 1955 edition. Miller A7c.$45.00NY: Random House (1955). First edition. 406 pp. Light foxing to endpapers and page edges, else very good plus in very good dust jacket with a few short edge-tears. Miller A7a.$150.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First printing of this second edition (originally published in 1955), numbered & signed issue. 406 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. New preface by Bowles, not in the 1955 edition. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Bowles. Miller A7e.$125.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First printing of this second edition (originally published in 1955). 406 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 1000 trade hardcover copies. Undescribed variant issue, with a black cloth spine, and pale ivory paper for the boards and spine label.$150.00NY: Random House (1955). First edition. 406 pp. Fine in very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a touch of wear to crown.$125.00NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1967). First edition. 215 pp. Light fade to topstain, else fine in fine dust jacket. Miller A16.$35.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First trade paperback printing. 89 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A collection of nine short stories. Miller A33a.$45.00NY: Random House (1966). First edition. 223 pp. Lower corners bumped, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to top edge of front panel, and some light overall rubbing.$35.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First trade paperback printing. 145 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Edited and translated by Bowles, with his introduction.$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First trade paperback printing. 145 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Edited and translated by Bowles, with his introduction. Review slip laid in. Miller A36a.$25.00NY: Macmillan (1977). First edition. 214 pp. One lower board edge bumped, else fine in near fine dust jacket. Boyd's second novel.$35.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1982). First edition. 370 pp. Slight lean to spine, else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$75.00London: Hamish Hamilton (2005). First edition. xvii + 650 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$45.00London: Hamish Hamilton (2004). First edition. 208 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Boyd on the title page.$35.00Cambridge: 21 Publishing (1998). First edition. 67 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Novelist Boyd’s spoof- with the help of 21 publisher David Bowie- biography of a non-existent American painter. A number of art journals gave this straight serious reviews, and then had to beat a hasty retreat as the hoax was revealed.$75.00NY: William Morrow (1984). First US edition. 217 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Boyd's third book, which contains two stories that were not in the English edition. INSCRIBED by Boyd to the actor MacDonald Carey.$20.00NY: Morrow, 1984. First edition. 217 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. A collection of short stories, with two tales not in the UK edition.$12.50London: Sinclair-Stevenson (1995). First edition. 194 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. Boyd’s second collection of stories.$20.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1987). First edition. 462 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper) else near fine in near fine dust jacket.$45.00London: Hamish Hamilton (1987). First edition. 462 pp. Pages toned (cheap paper), else near fine in near fine dust jacket with a short tear to the top rear flap fold. SIGNED by Boyd on the title page.$150.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1940). First edition. 295 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with some light soiling to spine. INSCRIBED by Boyle, “dear Burton - / I wish that all Americans / could be - would be - as / intelligent, and enlightened as / you. / Kay.” Young 386.$25.00NY: Viking (1989). First edition. 224 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some sunning to spine. SIGNED by Boyle on the title page. His third collection of short stories.$200.00NY: Viking (1984). Uncorrected proof. 333 pp. Fine in printed red wrappers. Boyle's second novel.
$100.00London: Gollancz, 1980. First UK edition. 219 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to edge of spine. His first book, a collection of short stories.$25.00NY: Viking (1990). First edition. 364 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Dated (9/12/95) and SIGNED by Boyle on the title page.