JW/50.

Frankfurt: 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.”