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$35.00NY: Samuel French (1969). First acting edition (later issue, with price-increase). 64 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers.![“Times were very hard in the south” [first line].](https://www.detritus.com/wp-content/uploads/58659.jpg)
$40.00Berkeley & Menlo Park: Cody’s & Kepler’s Books, 1991. First edition. 14 x 8 1/2 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Very near fine. An excerpt from THE STORIES OF EVA LUNA, translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Though not called for, SIGNED by Allende.$35.00Austin: University of Texas Press (1999). Uncorrected proof. 477 pp w/annotated bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers. Promotional flyer laid in. Edited by John Rodden with Spanish translations by Virginia Invernizzi.$20.00Berkeley: Black Oak Books, 1988. First edition. 12 1/4 x 9 1/2 inch broadside, printed in three colors. Fine. An excerpt from Allende’s novel, printed on the occasion of her reading at Black Oak.$25.00NY: Knopf, 1988. First US trade edition. 272 pp. Remainder mark to top edge, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. SIGNED by Allende on the half-title page.$15.00NY: Knopf, 1988. First US trade edition. 272 pp. Return stripes on top and bottom edges, else near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden.$25.00NY: Knopf, 1987. First US edition. 274 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Dated (nov 1989) and INSCRIBED by Allende with a flower drawing. Publication postcard laid in.$40.00NY: HarperCollins (1994). Uncorrected proof. 326 pp. Light sunning to spine, else fine in printed wrappers. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. SIGNED by Allende with her flower drawing.$100.00NY: Knopf, 1985. First US edition. 368 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original Spanish by Magda Bogin.$20.00NY: HarperCollins (1993). First US edition. 382 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. SIGNED by Allende with her flower drawing on the half-title page.$25.00Franklin Center: Franklin Library (1993). First US edition. 382 pp. Fine in full gilt-decorated blue leather, a.e.g., ribbon place marker bound-in. Translated from the original Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. One of an unstated number of copies SIGNED by Allende. Includes a “special message to subscribers” from Allende, not in the trade edition.$35.00Garden City: Doubleday (1952). First edition. 254 pp. Very good plus in very good dust jacket with chipping to base and crown of spine, light overall edgewear, and soiling to rear panel.$25.00NY: Dutton (1998). First edition. 434 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket with a light wrinkle at crown of spine. INSCRIBED by Allison on the title page. Promotional flyers laid in.$25.00NY: Dutton (1998). Advance reading copy. 588 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Allison. Promotional flyer laid in.$750.00Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1983. First edition. 58 pp. Very near fine in glossy printed wrappers. INSCRIBED by Allison on the title page, “For Walter - / who understands / the desire, the lust / to live forever on the page. / Dorothy.” Laid in is a brief ALS on Allison’s San Francisco letterhead to the same Walter expressing frustration at not mailing the book sooner, “It’s all this sunshine; it rots the brain.” Her first book, a collection of poems.
$200.00Brooklyn: Long Haul Press, 1983. First edition. 58 pp. Small spot on title page, else near fine in printed wrappers with lightly sunned spine. Illustrated by Laurie McLaughlin. SIGNED by Allison. First book by the author of BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA.$12.50NY: New Directions (1989). First edition. 83 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Afterword by Peter S. Coleman. Promotional letter laid in.$35.00Los Angeles: Echo Press, 1966. 67 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Contributions by Jack Matthews, Diane Wakoski, and George Bowering. SIGNED by contributor Robert Peters on the front cover and at his poem about Allen Ginsberg, “The Tower-Toppler,” with the addition, “I’m not sure of my tone here - or whether the poem works! I’m not + never was his “Buddha-brother.” Accompanying this copy is a typed, signed, and rubber-stamped postcard from Peters.$10.00León: Ediciones El Paisaje (1996). 44 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers.$12.50Cambridge: Identity Press (1966). First edition. 63 pp. Spine lettering sunned, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Woodcut illustrations by John Lithgow.$15.00Copenhagen & Willimantic: Augustinus/Curbstone, 1980. First edition. 25 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Turkish-born Alpar’s poems translated from the original Danish by Alexander Taylor.$10.00Dennis: Salt-Works Press (1976). First edition. [22 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 250 copies.$20.00London & NY: Routledge (1998). First edition. xviii + 342 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$75.00NY: Times Change Press (1971). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems illustrated with photographs by Ellen Shumsky. One of several early poetry collections by Alta published in 1971, preceded by her early editorial efforts via her Shameless Hussy Press.$25.00Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press (1993). First edition. 115 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.$25.00Berkeley: Shameless Hussy Press (nd). First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers.$20.00NY: Times Change Press (1974). First trade paperback printing. 77 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Prose on motherhood by the poet.$20.00San Lorenzo: Shameless Hussy Press, 1971. First edition. [72 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Poems.$35.00Pittsburgh: Know, Inc. (np). First edition. 36 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with light toning to extrems. This collection designated “Volume I, Number 1, selected and printed by the KNOW collective.” Additionally, “Selections in Vol. I chosen by Anne. Next time it will be someone else. We take turns.”$20.00Pittsburgh: Know, Inc. (nd). First edition. 36 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers.