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$250.00Minneapolis: Granary Books, 1988. First edition, deluxe issue. [46 pp]. Fine in paper-covered boards with inset cover label and cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Frontispiece portrait of Williams by R.B. Kitaj. One of 65 numbered copies on Frankfurt White paper SIGNED by Williams and Kitaj.
$40.00Highlands: Jargon Society (1963). First edition. 8 1/2 x 3 3/4 inch card, printed in two colors. Fine. A poem from Williams’ collection ELEGIES AND CELEBRATIONS, here issued as Jargon Billboard #1. SIGNED by Williams.
$2,000.00Stuttgart: Jonathan Williams (1953). First edition. Single large sheet folded to make eight panels (15 x10 inches, closed). Text by Williams, graphics by Charles Oscar, printed in two colors. One of 200 copies. Original printed mailing envelope (with Pfc Williams’ apo address) present and very near fine. Jargon 5.
$75.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. [24 pp w/notes]. Near fine in sewn wrappers with toning to extrems and some light wrinkles to rear cover. Poems with drawings by Philip Van Aver. One of 750 copies printed by Dave Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. Laid into this copy is a fundraising letter, SIGNED by Haselwood, to assist Williams in paying for a trip to England. Auerhahn 20.
$150.00Fort Lauderdale: Roman Books, 1964. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 27 pp. Some light foxing to extrems, else very near fine in patterned paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Front and rear cover drawings by Barry Hall, foreword by John Wain. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams, Hall, and Wain. The first book of the press.
$75.00North Carolina: Friends of the Library/North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1979. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Narrow 4to. [24 pp]. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams. Riffs inspired by the verbal landscape of North Carolina and County of Cumbria.
$100.00London: Turret Books, 1967. First edition, numbered & signed issue. Small 4to. [32 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with tipped-on drawings by John Furnival. One of 100 numbered copies on Glastonbury laid white paper SIGNED by Williams.
$200.00[Urbana: Bill Desmond, 1971]. First edition. [4 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with a touch of wear along the spine. Typeset and printed by Bill Desmond, a student of A. Doyle Moore’s. A survivor, one of 25 copies. Jaffe 66.
$75.00Chapel Hill: Hanes Foundation, 1989. First edition. 32 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Dated (1990) and INSCRIBED by Williams to Gus Blaisdel, “Love to / Gus, / from Jonathan / Highlands et croisset.” Williams reviews the Jargon track record. Accompanying this copy is a funny TLS from Williams.
$750.00Norfolk: New Directions [1949]. Second edition. 207 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with two closed tears and a chip to crown of spine. This second edition adds “Something wild...” by Williams as an introduction. INSCRIBED by Williams, “For Ruth Dutton / who has the happy / distinction of being / the sister of Lois / Tennessee.”
$350.00NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 591 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Collects THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE, SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, and CAMINO REAL.
$20.00Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984. First edition. 53 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Mariani. Both sets of letters, with Sanford’s commentary.
$100.00(np): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper cover label. One of 430 (of 500) copies. Prints WCW’s “Advent of To-Day” and “The Girl” along with two drawings by Zorach. Wallace B27.
$50.00[Sydney]: Art Gallery NSW (2004). First edition. 4to. 240 pp w/glossary, biographies, chronology, & index. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Includes 140 color images of works from the exhibition.
$50.00Philadelphia: Leaves of Grass Press (1974). First edition. 78 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Review slip laid in.
$100.00NY: Scribner’s, 1974. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Wilson on the front free endpaper, “To Marvin / from / Gahan Wilson” with drawings of two stars incorporated into the inscription.
$100.00(np): (np) (1958). First edition. 72 pp. Very good plus in illustrated wrappers with a short tear to the crown of spine and a few spots to the back cover. One of 600 copies. Sixteen lithograph illustrations by Wilson, with texts in French by Valaoritis. Errata slip present.
$45.00Washington DC: O Press (1974). First edition. 4to. 27 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Winch on the title page. Second book by Winch, himself a musician, who also published the first issue of Mass Transit magazine, and co-founded Some of Us Press.
$200.00Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 153 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine publisher’s slipcase. Cover art from a collage of printed papers by Fritz Bulman. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. One of 50 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by Windham.
$75.00Woodstock & NY: Overlook Press (2002). First edition. 276 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
$85.00(np): (np) (1976). First edition. xii + 155 pp. Near fine in full decorated cloth with light foxing to top edge, and a small smudge to fore-edge. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Rowland Evans Jr. Illustrated, one fold-out map. SIGNED by Winton on the first leaf. Memoir by this winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, who shipped off to France in June 1917.
$20.00London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1988). First UK edition. 153 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
$75.00Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers (1998). Second edition, trade paperback issue. xiv + 357 pp w/index. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. CD present and fine. Edited by Simon Emmerson. An examination of the developments in music making and aesthetics made possible by the advent of computers and digital processing. While doing so, Wishart ropes in poetry, sound-poetry, film sound effects, and animal communication. Contemporary Music Studies Volume 12.
$45.00Rocky Ledge: Cottage Editions (1980). First edition. 4to. 33 pp. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. One of 215 (of 225) copies. Cover art by George Schneeman. Poems.
$45.00Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles 1980. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 400 copies. Title page photograph by Penny Pillatt. Dated (Oct. 3. 1980) and INSCRIBED by Wolfe, “For Leslie, / Thanks for the party; / there’s no place like home. / Love, Michael.” Wolfe’s third book, a journal of his 1979 visit to Morocco, from smoking kif to dining with Paul Bowles.
$35.00NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1987). Advance excerpt. 18 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. The first chapter from Wolfe’s then forthcoming novel.
$75.00NY: Columbia University Press, 1926. First edition. x + 55 pp. Short closed tear at crown, else fine in printed wrappers. Introductory note by John Erskine. First separate appearance of this essay that appeared originally in Century Magazine in 1893. Poet Woodberry appreciates more than most travel writers of the day.
$20.00Minneapolis: Zelot (1986). First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A selection from an autobiographical novel, “concerning mainly one of my daughters, one of my wives, and one of my mothers.”
$85.00NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). First edition. viii + 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of spine. Leonard Woolf contributes an introductory note. Kirkpatrick A30a.
$125.00Iowa City: Windhover Press (1990). First edition. 4to. 38 pp w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 250 copies on Iyo handmade Japanese paper SIGNED by Wright. Berger 98.
$125.00Providence: Lost Roads 1984. First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Lost Roads 24.
$20.00Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 478 (of 500) copies on Classic Text. Nine poems.