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$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.$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.$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!”$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.$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.$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.$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.$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.$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.$17.50[Honolulu]: Petronium Press (1981). First edition. 21 pp. Inked price to front free endpaper, else near fine in sewn wrappers. Brief TLS from Quagliano presenting this book for review.$12.50Honolulu, Hawaii:Petronium Press, 1981. First edition. Fine in wraps. Foreword by Reuel Denney.$45.00London: East London Arts Magazine Society (1965). First edition. 17 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Quarrell on the title page.$35.00Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1992). First edition. xiv + 238 p. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.$25.00NY: Station Hill Press (1979). First edition. Narrow 4to. [68 pp]. Near fine in wrappers. Review slip paperclipped to the first leaf.