Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
BUKOWSKI, Charles (1920-94), and others - Seamus COONEY (b.1933). A Checklist of the First One Hundred Publications of the Black Sparrow Press ... With 30 Passing Remarks by Robert Kelly. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1971. 8vo (206 x 130mm). Title printed in red and black, the "thirty passing remarks" section signed at the end by Robert Kelly in black ink, the preface signed at the end by Seamus Cooney in blue ink. Original pale green buckram-backed paper boards by Earle Gray, printed spine label, black endpapers, acetate wrapper. Provenance: from the Collection of David Kotthoff. FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 1,050 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 42 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY SEAMUS COONEY, ROBERT KELLY AND 26 OTHER BLACK SPARROW AUTHORS [SEE ILLUSTRATION] INCLUDING CHARLES BUKOWSKI, ROBERT DUNCAN, TOM CLARK, JAMES PURDY AND MICHAEL MCCLURE. RARE.