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$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]. 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.
$20.00Washington DC: Visual Press (1979). First edition. [24 pp]. Very good plus in stapled wrappers and very good integral dust jacket. One of 300 copies. Colored photographs of the Jargon Society publisher on the occasion of his 50th birthday.
$25.00NY: Gotham Book Mart Gallery, 1968. First edition. Single long sheet folded twice (6 x 9 inches, closed). Fine. Williams contributes a long work on Romano’s work. Black and white reproductions of paintings of Carson McCullers, WCW, and W.H. Auden by Romano.$250.00Goleta: Associated Students of the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1959. Fall. [64 pp]. Light toning to extrems, else near fine in printed wrappers. Issue features Williams’ 27 pp essay, “Measure.” SIGNED by Williams on the front cover, in his post-stroke hand.$35.00NY: Definition Press (1970). First edition. xi + 208 pp w/index. Shallow bump to one top edge,else very near fine in near fine dust jacket.$20.00London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (1980). First edition. xix + 436 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket.$10.00NY: New Directions (1995). First edition. 63 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Laughlin’s affectionate memoir of his friendship with Williams.$40.00NY: New Directions (1976). First edition. xix + 108 pp w/index. Pages lightly toned, else very near fine in like dust jacket. Introduction by Wagner. Three full interviews, followed by a sequence of “Dialogues” (on Modern Poetry, on Ezra Pound, on Rhyme, etc), and concluding with Gael Turnbull’s memoir of a 1958 visit with WCW, and WCW’s essays, “How to Write” and “The American Idiom.”$20.00Middletown: Wesleyan University Press (1968). First edition. 354 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with three short edge-tears, and two small chips to front panel.$12.50Washington DC: Library of Congress, 1984. First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Introduction by Anthony Hecht. A lecture on Williams delivered by Whittemore at the Library 1 November 1983.$75.00London: Phoenix House (1949). First edition. 238 pp. Top edge a bit dusty, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear to base and crown of spine. A volume in the "Poets on the Poets" series.$45.00NY: Columbia University Press, 1984. First edition. viii + 111 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
$1,250.00Madison: Health, Flame, and Aluminum Press (1969). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and very near fine printed dust jacket with light sunning along the spine. “Written, illustrated, and printed by Michael Myers.” One of 60 numbered copies on Nideggen paper. Printed with the assistance of Walter S. Hamady. Poems, fully-illustrated with Myers’ instantly recognizable linoleum block prints. I believe this to be his second book, preceded by the 1968 EAST BAY MOON-beams. Myers would sooon move West, connect with Holbrook Teter, and create Zephyrus Image. See Johnston pp 17-18.