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$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.$75.00NY: Arbor House (1975). Uncorrected proof. Narrow 8vo. 81 pp. Light ripples to upper portion of text block, else near fine in printed wrappers. Publication date listed as February 1976 on the front panel. Young 3149.$30.00NY: Arbor House (1975). First edition. 140 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Young 3149.$25.00London: Peter Owen (1988). First UK edition. 254 pp. Sticker scar inside front board, else fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1986). First edition. 254 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. 308 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$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.$10.00NY: Avon (1959). First trade paperback printing. 159 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.$12.50London: Arcadia Books (2000). First edition. viii + 245 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers.$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.$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!”$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.$20.00NY: Arbor House (1978). First edition. 185 pp. Slight lean to spine, else very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Young 3151*.$30.00NY: Arbor House (1978). Uncorrected proof. 178 pp. Foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good plus proof dust jacket with foxing along the verso of the top edge. Promotional materials laid in. Young 3151*.$25.00NY: Viking (1984). First edition. 378 pp. Fine in very good plus dust jacket with a tear along one flap fold, and another to the top edge of the front panel.$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.$20.00NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1987). First edition. 143 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a light fade to spine lettering.
$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.$20.00London: Peter Owen (1986). First UK edition. 360 pp. Pages browned, a few light stains to page edges. In all, very good plus in near fine dust jacket. Small US distributor sticker on title page.
$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*.$50.00Oxford: Neblum (nd). 20 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Contributions by Reinhard Dahl, Jean-Marie Le Sidaner, Ernst Jandl, Jim Burns, Barry Cole, John Furnival, Karl Weissner, Anne Wardwicke, and Doug Blazek. Rear cover art by Ladislav Novak.$20.00NY: Elsevier (1985). First edition. xiv + 174 pp w/index. Faint foxing along top edge, else very near fine in glossy printed boards.$20.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1970). First edition. xi + 214 pp w/index of first lines. Fine in near fine dust jacket that is lightly soiled and has a tear to the top edge of the front panel. Introduction by Edmund Wilson. Collects Putnam’s two published collections, TRINC (1927) and THE FIVE SEASONS (1931) together with uncollected and posthumous poems. Edited by Charles R. Walker.$25.00NY: Dutton (1986). Uncorrected proof. 182 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers.