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$75.00London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1893. First edition. Slight wear at the extremities of spine, else a very good, tight copy in original pictorial cloth, stamped in black, tan, and gilt; illustrated. Margaret Symonds' first solely authored book, dedicated to her late father John Addington Symonds and published in the year of his death. (Their collaborative book of essays, OUR LIFE IN THE SWISS HIGHLANDS, had appeared in 1892.) Both Margaret Symonds, who was then 24, and some of her descriptions in this book of the Italian countryside, were romantically admired at the time by her close friend Virginia Woolf, who was 21. Bookplate (by Gordon Craig) of Timothy d'Arch Smith.$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Covers lightly rubbed, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life.$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Covers unevenly sunned, foxing along top edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life. INSCRIBED by Williams on the title page, “JW, Col., / unretired.”$20.00Frankfurt: Gnomon Press (1979). First edition. [120 pp]. Small bump to one upper corner, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. $7.50 price sticker over printed price on rear panel. “A 50th Birthday Celebration for Jonathan Williams,” issued both as Truck 21 and a Gnomon Press book. Includes contributions--essays, poems, artworks, or otherwise--by John Cage, Robert Duncan, Larry Eigner, Guy Davenport, William Corbett, Basil Bunting, Joe Brainard, and Denise Levertov, among a score of others. A tribute that actually captures the spirit of Williams’ work and life.