Subtotal: $50.00
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$1,500.00NY: Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. 4to. [134 pp]. Covers lightly toned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. One of 300 numbered copies. The first separate incarnation of Berrigan’s major poetic statement, dedicated to his friend Joe Brainard, and edited by his friend Ron Padgett. This copy has the unprinted rear cover, and is scarce thus. -
$35.00NY: Grove (1964). Second printing. 72 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers; a trade paperback original. Rear cover endorsement by Joe Brainard, who is also the dedicatee. -
$200.00NY: Vehicle (1971). First edition. [96 pp]. Slight lean to spine, which is a bit rubbed, else fine in printed wrappers. Cover art by Joe Brainard. INSCRIBED by Berrigan on the front free endpaper, “For / George, with / ravishing affection, / from / Ted / the bum / 1 Feb 79 / NYC.”
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$25.00Peppermint Press, 1975. First trade edition. [90 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems with photographs by Rolf Lockwood.
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$20.00Ithaca: Limited Time Printing (2002). Third printing. 39 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Berry on the title page.
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$35.00Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016). First edition. 159 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation.” -
$12.50Berkeley: Counterpoint (2016). First trade paperback printing. 159 pp w/notes. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Sabbath Poems 2014 and 2015 together with “The Presence of Nature in the Natural World: A Long Conversation.”
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$45.00Washington DC: Shoemaker & Hoard (2005). First edition. 152 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear.
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$25.00Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005. First edition. 14 x 11 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. Berry’s poem paired with Plate 79 (the Yellow-throated Warbler) from Audubon’s BIRDS OF AMERICA.
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$35.00Berkeley: Counterpoint (2014). First edition. Small 4to. 48 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Poems by Berry with full color illustrations by Tom Pohrt. -
$125.00[Berkeley]: The Shoemakers, 1983. First edition. Folding card (6 x 4 1/2 inches, closed). Very near fine. Single poem by Berry. Issued on the occasion of Sean Shoemaker’s graduation from Berkeley High School.
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$20.00Berkeley: North Point (1980). First edition. [8 pp w/note]. Fine in printed wrappers. A single poem. Cover drawing by Bruce McGaw.
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$30.00Berkeley: Sand Dollar Books, 1977. First edition. [36 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. Collects “Elegy,” “Requiem,” and “Rising.” One of 1000 copies designed by Kathy Walkup. Sand Dollar 23.
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$200.00Chicago: Poetry, 1949. First edition. 17 pp. Light toning to fore-edge, else near fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. Berryman’s commentary on the poems in Poetry, LXX (December 1949). Stefanik A5.
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$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1989). Uncorrected proof. lxvii + 335 pp. Near fine in printed dark blue wrappers. Edited and introduced by Charles Thornbury. Promotional flyer laid in.
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$20.00NY: Farrar, Straus Giroux (1972). First edition. 70 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to spine.
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$20.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1972). First edition. 70 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with one short tear and a light fade to spine lettering.
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$20.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1972). First edition. ix + 69 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with light edgewear and a short closed tear. Ink ownership stamp of Henry Carlile to the front free endpaper. Stefanik A22.i.a.
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$25.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1977. First edition. 94 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a small scuff to crown. Forty-five unpublished or uncollected Dream Songs, eleven short poems, and unfinished longer poems, ten late poems, and more.
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$750.00Pawlet: Claude Fredericks, 1958. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 500 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Though not called for, SIGNED by Berryman on the title page. Original backing board and printed mailing envelope (unmailed) present and near fine. Stefanik A8.i.a.
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$45.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1968). First edition. 317 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to crown of spine. Stefanik A16.1.a.
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$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1968). First printing of this collection, originally published in England. Contains a new note by Berryman on the poems included. Paper browning, else very good plus in original wrappers. Stefanik A.9.1.c.
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$850.00NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy (1956). First edition. 57 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Berryman’s first book with Farrar Straus, with whom he would publish for the rest of his life. SIGNED by Berryman on the front free endpaper. Stefanik A7.i.a. -
$125.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1956. . First edition of his third book. 8vo. Cloth. Near fine in a near fine jacket with just mild wear at the edges.
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$75.00NY: Farrar Straus & Cudahy (1956). First edition. 57 pp w/notes. Small bookseller ticket to lower inside corner of front free endpaper, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket with three short internally-mended tears. Illustrated by Ben Shahn.
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$40.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1970. First edition. 96 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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$350.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 96 pp. Fine in cloth-covered boards and publisher’s slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. The spine lettering is only very slightly worn, much less so than normally found. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Berryman. Of these however, Stefanik notes that 30 to 50 were presentation copies. Stefanik A20.i.a.
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$20.00London: Faber & Faber, 1973. First UK edition. xiv + 254 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Foreword by Saul Bellow.
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$20.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1973). First edition. xiv + 258 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Six page foreword by Saul Bellow. A novel about alcoholism left unfinished, but only just, as the time of Berryman’s death. Stefanik A24.1.a.
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$45.00NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (1967). First edition. 120 pp. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. This volume collects many of Berryman's short lyrics and brief lyric sequences, excluding of course his two masterpieces, the early HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET and THE DREAM SONGS of middle-to-late career. However, the volume manages to sample a wide range: from his earliest work--THE DISPOSSESSED of 1948--to a much later poem, 'Formal Elegy,' written in memory of JFK.
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$25.00Isle of Skye, Scotland:Aquila/The Phaeton Press, 1981. 1st edition thus. Near fine in wraps, lightly faded along stapled spine. First separate edition of this essay by Berryman.
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$12.50NY: Thin Air Video (nd). VHS video tape in the original box. Near fine. Readings by each of the poets, totalling 55 minutes.