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$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 352 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. This is copy #1.$150.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1991. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 352 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 35 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy with an original drawing.$50.00NY: Note of Hand Publishers, 1977. First edition. 169 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Designed and printed at the Five Trees Press. The colophon calls for fifty numbered and signed copies. This copy is not numbered, but is SIGNED by Purdy.$55.00NY: Note of Hand Publishers, 1977. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 169 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light toning to spine. Designed and printed at the Five Trees Press. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.$45.00(np): Black Sparrow (1967). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [40 pp]. Light foxing and sunning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers. A short story and eleven poems. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy.$100.00(np): Black Sparrow (1967). First edition, out of series copy. [40 pp]. Light foxing and sunning to extrems, else near fine in sewn wrappers. A short story and eleven poems. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh, with plain gray endpapers not in the regular issue. One of 7 copies designated “Out of Series” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Purdy.$200.00(np): Black Sparrow (1967). First edition, publisher’s copy. [40 pp]. Light foxing along top edges, else near fine in full cloth with wrap-around pasted down label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. A short story and eleven poems. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Purdy.$50.00NY: Viking (1980). First edition. 426 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Briefly INSCRIBED by Purdy on the title page. Collects MALCOLM, THE NEPHEW, and 63: DREAM PALACE.$100.00Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1972. First edition. 120 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with some wear to crown. SIGNED by Purdy. Additionally INSCRIBED, “For Donnie / with all affectionate wishes / and appreciation, ever / Jaimie / May 1, 1972.” Promotional flyer laid in, as well as a clipped bookseller catalog listing, that indicates “Donnie” = Donald Gallup. Young 3148.$50.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1972. First edition. 120 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Purdy, “For Douglas / from his friend / James / with appreciation / Brooklyn, December 8 1978.” Young 3148.$45.00Northridge: Santa Susana Press, 1977. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and integral dust jacket with printed cover label. A single poem with two small illustrations by Irving Block. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy and Block. Issued on the occasion of Herb Yellin’s inauguration as president of the Bibliographical Society.$150.00NY: Nadja [1978]. First edition, lettered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.
$45.00NY: Nadja [1978]. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Pages uncut. A single poem by Purdy, with his cover art. One of 174 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The first book of the press.$100.00NY: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy (1959). First edition. 215 pp. Light foxing along top edge, else near fine in very good dust jacket with heavy foxing along each of the flap folds. INSCRIBED by Purdy to Gary Lepper, who included Purdy in his BIBLIOGRAPHIC INTRODUCTION TO SEVENTY-FIVE MODERN AMERICAN AUTHORS (Serendipity Books, 1976). Young 3150.$75.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 41 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket with some chipping to crown. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy with an original dated (68) and signed drawing tipped-in after the title page.$35.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition. 41 pp. Spine faintly sunned with a few small marks, else near fine in printed wrappers. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. Morrow & Cooney 46.$500.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1968. First edition, publisher’s copy. 41 pp. Toning to spine and extrems, else near fine in full leather with printed paper spine label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Purdy. As in the deluxe issue, there is an original drawing tipped-in after the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by Purdy, “for John Martin / with friendship and / all good wishes / and with appreciation / from / James / December 6, 1968. Laid in are two extra drawings and a June 4, 1969 holograph letter from Purdy to Martin stating in part, “You have no equal in book publication!”$150.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 29 pp. A bit of foxing to top edge, else fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Purdy. This is copy “A.” Uncommon in this issue.$200.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, publisher’s copy. 29 pp. 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 Purdy.$75.00Los Angeles: Black Sparrow, 1970. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 29 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Purdy.
$75.00NY: Nadja (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies on handmade Umbria paper SIGNED by Purdy. A prose work with a drawing by Purdy as a frontis.$85.00NY: Aloe Editions, 1973. First edition. [14 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers. Designed and printed by Ronald Gordon at the Oliphant Press. One of 124 (of 150) numbered copies SIGNED by Purdy. The entire edition.
$55.00NY: Nadja, 1985. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine printed dust jacket. Purdy’s short story with an illustration by Ed Colker. One of 200 numbered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Purdy and Colker.
$125.00Dallas: Cameron Northouse (1977). First edition, manuscript edition. 4to. 109 pp. Tiny spot to fore-edge of front cover, else fine in illustrated wrappers in near fine publisher’s slipcase with foxing along part of the top edge. One of 67 copies with a page of corrected typescript SIGNED by Purdy, housed in a folder with pasted-on label. The entire play, “A Day After the Fair” appears in the magazine complete. Young 3146 (Note of Hand edition).$35.00Dallas: New London Press (1979). First edition. 51 pp. Fine in full brown cloth with gold stamping to front cover and spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Pairs “A Day after the Fair” and “True.” INSCRIBED by Purdy. Young3152*.$45.00London: East London Arts Magazine Society (1965). First edition. 17 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Quarrell on the title page.$35.00Barrytown: Station Hill Press (1979). First edition. Narrow 4to. [68 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Dated (8-19-79) and INSCRIBED by Quasha.
$75.00Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha. Dated (26 October 75) and INSCRIBED by Quasha, “For Clayton + Caryl, with love, George / Rokeby Farm / Berrytown.” Quasha has penned a eight page poem on the title page.$35.00Village Station: Metapoetics Press (1975). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Near fine in sewn wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Cut marbled paper cover design by Susan Quasha. One of 137 numbered copies SIGNED by Quasha.$25.00Eugene: Pacific House Books, 1987. First printing of this trade paperback edition. 68 pp. Fine in wrappers and very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Poems by Quinn with drawings by Susan Snyder Hasegawa. Originally published by Abattoir Editions. Dated (Nagoya 9-13-87) and INSCRIBED by Quinn.$20.00NY: Edward Burlingame Books/HarperCollins (1991). First US edition. 372 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Raban. Additionally INSCRIBED by Alice Adams on the front free endpaper (presenting this book as a gift).$12.50Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1985). First trade paperback printing. 88 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Translated by Stuart Friebert and Vinio Rossi. INSCRIBED by Friebert.