Sparrow 1 - 72 [72 Pamphlets Bound in Six Volumes, complete; Signed by contributors] [Herb Yellin's copy]

Los Angeles & Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Very Good +/Very Good +. Los Angeles and Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1973-1978. Seventy-two chapbooks bound in six octavo volumes (24cm); marbled paper-covered boards with brick cloth spine and gilt volume number; unpaginated. Boards sturdy and square with occasional very light rubbing at spine ends. Bindings sound and pages unmarked.

Thirty of the issues signed by 16 contributors (some signing multiple), including Robert Kelly (x4), Clayton Eshleman (x7), Charles Bukowski (x2), Robert Creeley (x2), Joyce Carol Oates (x3), Diane Wakoski (x2), and others. Eshleman's signature accompanied in six instances across volumes by the inscription "for Herb Yellin," the dedicatee being founder and publisher of the fellow-California-based Lord John Press, established toward the end of the Sparrow pamphlet series' run. Given the placement of the Eshleman inscriptions and the bindings being more in the Lord John Press style, we presume these were Yellin's copies as issued that he had bound rather than a rebinding of Black Sparrow's Autograph Edition of the same volumes. Full list of signed issues available on request.