The Sonnets

by Ted Berrigan

$1,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York : Lorenz & Ellen Gude, 1964. First edition. Side-stapled 8.5 x11 sheets, printed on rectos only, with terminal blank leaf present, which is missing in most copies; no stiff leaf at rear, which may have not been included on most copies. Unnumbered copy from a stated run of 300. Very Good with bumped corners and lightly worn edges, slightly soiled back wraps, a little bit of foxing. The poet's scarce first book,

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