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$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.$20.00NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1964). First edition. 228 pp. Very near fine in very good plus dust jacket a patch of rubbing to edge of spine, some toning, and edgewear.$40.00NY: New Directions (1957). First edition. 175 pp. Light foxing to page edges, else near fine in very good dust jacket with a closed tear to the rear panel, and light overall edgewear.$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.$35.00NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1967). First edition. 241 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Purdy’s fifth novel.$25.00London: Peter Owen (1989). First edition. 152 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$20.00London: Peter Owen (1997). First edition. 148 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$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.$25.00NY: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1986). First edition. 254 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$25.00London: Peter Owen (1988). First UK edition. 254 pp. Sticker scar inside front board, else fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00Garden City: Doubleday, 1970. First edition. 308 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.$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).$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.$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.$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.$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.$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.
$75.00NY: 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.$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.$25.00NY: Dutton (1986). Uncorrected proof. 182 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers.$35.00London: Aloes (1978). First edition. [32 pp]. Faint sunning to front cover, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Pirated edition of this single short story that originally appeared in New World Writing magazine in 1960. The first issue, with an isbn number, a printed 60p price, and the publisher logo (a book with a bite out of it). Mead C2.$27.50NY: Holt (1997). First edition. 773 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket and unprinted acetate dust jacket.$35.00London: Aloes Books (np). First edition. [20 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. First separate appearance of this piracy. This short story was originally published in the Cornell Writer of March 1959, and later collected for SLOW LEARNER.
$1,000.00Philadelphia & NY: Lippincott (1963). Advance reading copy. 492 pp. Light tanning to spine, else near fine in printed wrappers. Pynchon’s first book.$20.00NY: Random House (1994). Advance reading copy. 289 pp. Light bend to front cover, else fine in laminated wrappers. An excellent advance copy of her celebrated and best-selling novel. With a letter from a Random House editor to the scholar and O. Henry Prizes editor William Abrahams laid in.$17.50Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1996. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wraps. Author’s first book. Blurb by Jonis Agee.