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The Torches.
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Subtotal: $150.00
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$50.00NY: Knopf, 1990. First edition. 84 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Sheck’s second collection of poems.
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$20.00San Francisco: And/Or Press (1978). Third printing. v + 88 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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$15.00Cork & Dublin: Mercier Press (1989). First printing of this edition. viii + 340 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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$12.50[Boston: Paul Sheehan, 1983]. First edition. Eight small leaves, stapled in the upper left corner. Fine. Together with a tls from Sheehan to the editor of The Wormwood Review.
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$75.00San Francisco: The Press in Tuscany Alley, [1989]. First edition. 21 3/4 x 16 3/4 inch illustrated broadside, printed in four colors. Very near fine. One of 100 copies on Iyo Glazed paper. Sheehan’s poem beneath an elaborate illustration of the title creature by Gene Holtan.
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$20.00Oakland: Coincidence Press (1982). First edition. 16mo. [12 pp]. Spine sunned, else near fine in sewn wrappers with pasted on cover label.
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$25.00Oakland: Jimmy’s House of Knowledge (1984). First edition. [16 pp]. Light tanning along spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
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$12.50San Francisco: Trike (1977). First edition. [48 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 575 (of 600) copies printed. Promotional letter laid in.
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$25.00Berkeley: Wind & Tree Press (1976). First edition. [32 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Illustrated with graphics by Ruth Lundgren. Laid in is a holograph letter from Shelby to the SF Review of Books soliciting a review.
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$15.00London: Pulsifer Press (1993). First edition. 281 pp. Small US distributor sticker on the rear cover, else fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
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$10.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First trade paperback edition. 137 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. Shelnutt’s second book, a collection of short stories.
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$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 137 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Shelnutt.
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$75.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1982. First edition, publisher’s copy. 137 pp. Some light foxing along 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 Shelnutt. Laid-in to this copy are two TLSs and a mailgram from Shelnutt to John and Barbara Martin thanking them for work on the book, and detailing her promotional efforts.
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$100.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First edition, publisher’s copy. 157 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near 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 Shelnutt. Laid-into this copy is a long TLS from Shelnutt to John and Barbara Martin about the publication of this, her first book.
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$15.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First trade paperback printing. 157 pp. Light bump to upper corner, else very near fine in printed wrappers. Review slip laid-in.
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$10.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First trade paperback printing. 157 pp. Spine tanned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Shelnutt’s first book, a collection of short stories.
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$45.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 157 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Shelnutt.
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$35.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 176 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Shelnutt.
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$75.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987. First edition, publisher’s copy. 176 pp. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label in near fine acetate dust jacket with wrinkled spine. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Shelnutt. Laid-in to this copy are two TLSs from Shelnutt to John Martin on matters relating to the publication and promotion of this volume.
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$10.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987. First trade paperback printing. 176 pp. Foxing along top edge, else very good plus in printed wrappers.
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$55.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 176 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label in fine acetate dust jacket. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Shelnutt.
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$20.00Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1987. First edition. 176 pp. Foxing along top edges, else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 trade hardcover copies.
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$10.00Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1977. First edition. [12 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Sparrow 62. Morrow & Cooney 281.
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$15.00Carrboro: Carolina Wren Press, 1977. . First edition. 8vo. Wrappers. 61 pp. Near fine with a little toning on the spine.
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$15.00Carrboro: Carolina Wren Press (1977). First edition. 61 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers.
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$15.00Berkeley: University of California (1999). First edition. 56 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Essay by Jacquelynn Baas. Interview by Constance Lewallen.
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$50.00Tucson: SUN/gemini Press, 1986. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [40 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with Hohokam pottery designs from photographs by Steven Trubitt. One of 75 numbered copies on Mohawk superfine paper SIGNED by Shelton and Trubitt.
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$35.00San Francisco: Kayak (1969). First edition. 69 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems illustrated with color prints by George Nama.
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$20.00San Francisco: Kayak (1969). First edition. 69 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers with some foxing to spine and fore-edge. Poems illustrated with color prints by George Nama.
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$40.00San Francisco: Peeramid Press (1984). First edition. [60 pp]. Small stain inside front cover and opposing spot on the title page, else fine in comb-bound wrappers. Small bag of actual jellybeans stapled to front cover, as issued. Dated (1985) and INSCRIBED by Shem, “For Floyd & Claire / In the beginning was the word / & the word was Jellybeans! / Shem the Penman.” How an unhappy red jellybean becomes President. If only we were so lucky.
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$50.00New Haven & London: Yale University Press (2006). First edition. xi + 257 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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$250.00Chapel Hill: Lillabulero Press (1967). First edition. 18 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers with some faint foxing to first leaf. Shepard's first book, a collection of poems issued as number 2 in the Lillabulero Poetry Pamphlet Series. SIGNED by Shepard. Precedes his first prose work by over a decade.