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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

A Dozen Oranges.
$10.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1976. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Twelve poems, issued as Sparrow 46. Morrow & Cooney 239.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Black and White.
$20.00
NY: Totem Press/Corinth (1969). Third printing. 48 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Sorrentino on the title page by one of the book’s publishers, Ted Wilentz, “For Clarence: / This is ‘Black / and White’ in a different / meaning. Hope you like it. /Ted.”
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Black and White.
$10.00
NY: Totem/Corinth (1969). First edition, third printing. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Black and White.
$45.00
NY: Totem/Corinth (1964). First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 1000 copies. Cover illustration by Morton Lucks. Sorrentino's second book. McPheron A2.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Black and White.
$15.00
NY: Totem/Corinth (1969). First edition, third printing. [48 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Sorrentino on the title page.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Blue Writes a Mysterious and Haunting Song.
$50.00
(np): Bookslinger Editions, 1983. First edition. 10 1/4 x 13 1/4 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. Printed at the Toothpaste Press on the occasion of Sorrentino's reading at Walker Art Center, April 6, 1983. One of 90 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Corrosive Sublimate.
$12.50
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. First trade paperback printing. 67 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very good plus in printed wrappers. One of 1000 copies.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Corrosive Sublimate.
$45.00
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1971. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 67 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine clear acetate dust jacket. Cover art by Dan Rice. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino. Morrow & Cooney 114b.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Selected Poems 1958-1980.
$20.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition. 268 pp. Spots of foxing to top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 500 trade hardcover copies.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Selected Poems 1958-1980.
$12.50
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First trade paperback printing. 268 pp. Very good plus in printed wrappers.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Selected Poems 1958-1980.
$200.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, publisher’s copy. 268 pp. Some foxing to 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 Sorrentino. Laid-in are two short TLSs from Sorrentino to John Martin praising the production of this book, among other publication-related matters.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Selected Poems 1958-1980.
$45.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 268 pp. Light foxing to top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino. This is copy #1.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

Selected Poems 1958-1980.
$75.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 268 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

SVLPICIAE ELEGIDIA / Elegiacs of Sulpicia.
$350.00
Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1977. First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. One of 137 press-numbered copies on perusia paper. Six elegiacs, all that have survived from the 1st century b.c. poet Sulpicia, with Sorrentino’s facing versions. Hamady 79.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

The Darkness Surrounds Us.
$25.00
Highlands: Jonathan Williams (1960). First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers in fine dust jacket. Collage and frontispiece drawing by Fielding Dawson with a “directive” by Joel Oppenheimer. Sorrentino's first book, a collection of poems. Jargon 40.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

The Orangery.
$25.00
Austin: University of Texas Press (1978). First edition. 86 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

The Perfect Fiction: Poems.
$35.00
NY: Norton (1968). First edition. 73 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fifty-two poems, one for each week of the year. Review slip laid in.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

White Sail.
$225.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition, publisher’s copy. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Sorrentino.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

White Sail.
$12.50
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow 1977. First trade paperback printing. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Morrow & Cooney 270a.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

White Sail.
$17.50
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First trade paperback printing. 59 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Review slip laid in.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

White Sail.
$175.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino.
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SORRENTINO, Gilbert.

White Sail.
$75.00
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 59 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Sorrentino. Morrow & Cooney 270b.
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SOSA, Manuel Gonzalez.

Siete Poetas Canarios.
$20.00
Caracas: Ediciones Poesia de Venezuela, 1967. First edition. 17 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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SOSA, ROBERTO.

The Difficult Days. Translated by Jim Lindsey.
$15.00
Princeton, NJ:Princeton University Press, 1983. First edition. Fine in wraps.
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SOSA, Roberto.

THE DIFFICULT DAYS. Translated by Jim Lindsey.
$15.00
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983. . First edition. 8vo. Illustrated wrappers. xix + 82 pp. Fine.
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SOSSAMAN, Stephen.

Anonyms: Prose Poems.
$45.00
Westfield: Little River Press, 1978. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Photo silk screen by Judith Edwards. Review slip pasted to the second leaf. Brief holograph note from the Press soliciting review laid in.
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SOTO, Gary.

LIVING UP THE STREET.
$35.00
San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1985. . First edition. 8vo. Wrappers. A paperback original. This copy is inscribed by Soto. Winner of the American Book Award. Very good with light soiling and edgewear.
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SOTO, Gary.

New and Selected Poems.
$15.00
San Francisco: Chronicle Books (1995). First trade paperback printing. 177 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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SOTO, Gary.

New and Selected Poems.
$55.00
San Francisco: Chronicle Books (1995). First edition. 177 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Reviewer’s neat penciled notes to verso of last leaf.
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SOTO, Gary.

Petty Crimes.
$15.00
NY: Harcourt Brace (1998). First edition. 157 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
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SOTO, Gary.

The Elements of San Joaquin.
$35.00
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press (1977). First trade paperback printing. 56 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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SOTO, Gary.

Where Sparrows Work Hard.
$75.00
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh (1981). First edition. 65 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Soto’s third collection of poems.
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