Sonnets by Berrigan Ted, Signed (9 results)

Stapled Wrapper. Decorative Wrappers. Very Good. Signed by Author. cover by Brainard inscribed association copy to Author's Close friend and sometimes enemy (just kidding, kind of) important association copy Early New York School,the person this book is inscribed to knows I bought the book through legit channels and has given the o.k. for it to be sold signed in 1964. Signed by Author.

First edition, first printing Berrigan's masterpiece dedicated to Joe Brainard. Good illustrated wraps with clean text. From the library of poet and editor Cid Corman with his small personal and fully signed bookplate to the inside front cover. From Cid's private library.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. First Trade Edition. Thin octavo. 5.25 x 8 in. 72 pp. A paperback original. Near fine in original decorated stapled wrappers with some wear to head of spine. Lengthy biographical blurb on the rear cover by Joe Brainard. Nicely inscribed on the half title to fellow poet Merrill Gilfillan with a self portrait by Berrigan. Signed.

Condition: A very fine copy. 8vo, frontispiece by Joe Brainard, original pictorial wrappers with design by Louise Hamlin. A very fine copy. First edition thus. Includes six sonnets not published in the 1964 C Press or the 1967 Grove Press editions. Fischer p. 56. Signed by Berrigan on the half-title.

Condition: Very good. First edition. Signed first edition of the definitive statement of the Second Generation of the New York School as well as Berrigan's most influential, popular, and lasting work, edited by Ron Padgett (who also typed the stencils). The only major American collection of the last fifty years to go through four separate editions, each at different publishers. From an edition of "300 plus an unspecified number of unnumbered copies" (Fischer p. 24), this is from the unnumbered series, estimated (by Berrigan himself; again see Fischer) to be about 100. Decidedly uncommon signed; this is the first we've handled. 11'' x 8.5''. Original side-stapled wrappers. Cover by Joe Brainard, offset duplicated; remainder mimeographed. With the usual toning, mild edgewear. Faint penned notation to top edge of front cover. Final leaf (colophon) loose. Lacking rear cover and terminal blank (as in many copies; we suspect many were issued this way). [66] leaves mimeographed rectos only; last leaf detached from staples. Signed by Berrigan to title page. Signed.

11 x 8.5, stapled wraps, mimeographed, unpag (includes last blank but not back cover), coves a little scratched and slightly spotted. FIRST ED, ONE OF 300 NUMBERED COPIES (This one unnumbered). PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY BERRIGAN TO JOHN SINCLAIR.

8 x 5.25, stapled wraps, 72 pp, covers show some wear else vg. FIRST TRADE ED, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "Ted.".

Condition: Near Fine. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1964. Stated First Printing of first trade edition. Slim octavo (20cm); 72pp. Stiff staple-bound printed wraps retaining $1.50 price. Wraps lightly bumped and scuffed; verso toned at edges. Binding sound. Textblock and endsheets show some foxing and toning; interior pages remain clean. Former owner and inscription dedicatee's personal ex-libris stamp at full title page. Very Good or better. Signed and inscribed by the author on full title page: "for Joe / with love / + admiration / Ted Berrigan." Joe LeSueur, to whom this copy belonged and was inscribed, was a poet, editor, and screenwriter closely associated with the New York School of the 60s. A close friend and longtime roommate of Frank O'Hara, LeSueur circulated through the city's artistic and literary social scene. His immediate circle is depicted in Wynn Chamberlain's 1964 portrait Poets Dressed and Undressed, in which LeSueur and O'Hara appear alongside Joe Brainard, to whom The Sonnets is dedicated.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1964. Second Printing of the Grove Press Edition. Signed by Berrigan at half title with inscription, "by Ted Berrigan, this copy for Harris Schiff Sept. 29th, 1964 NYC Happy Birthday, Ted." Octavo; 72pp. Printed wraps. Light wear to edges; diagonal crease to rear; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy and a remarkable association to Berrigan's fellow poet, friend, and collaborator.