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$100.00Champaign: Finial Press, 1976. First edition. Oblong 12mo. [24 pp]. Light toning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poem by Williams, “In the Absolutely Innocent, Dead-Pan Manner of Kate Greenaway,” with drawings by Brainard, “In the Action Comix Manner.” Elaborately INSCRIBED by Williams on the half-title page.$125.00Champaign: Finial Press, 1976. First edition. Oblong 12mo. [24 pp]. Light toning along spine, else near fine in stapled wrappers. Poem by Williams, “In the Absolutely Innocent, Dead-Pan Manner of Kate Greenaway,” with drawings by Brainard, “In the Action Comix Manner.” INSCRIBED by Williams to James Broughton and Joel Singer, “for / James / and / Joel / love / from / Jonathan / 1978 / Highlands.”$85.00Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop (1983). First edition. Oblong 16mo. [48 pp]. Near fine in printed wrappers with two small scuff marks to rear panel. One of 250 (of 300) copies. Lavishly illustrated with erotic drawings by Smith. Dated (5 April 84) and INSCRIBED by Smith and Williams “for Doyle.”$35.00North Carolina Wesleyan College Friends of the Library, 1983. First trade edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch printed card. Fine. One of 450 (of 500) copies. INSCRIBED by Williams.$75.00(np): Texas Quarterly, 1963. First edition. [16 pp]. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. An offprint from the Summer 1963 issue of The Texas Quarterly. Williams’ review, with illustrations by Ben Shahn. Dated (1963) and SIGNED by Williams on the first leaf.
$125.00Roswell & Denver: DBA/JCA Editions, 1983. First edition. 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in strip-bound wrappers with clear top sheet. Cover art by John Furnival. One of 200 numbered and inscribed copies for friends of Williams and Furnival. This is copy 62 for “Alex” and initialed by Williams, “JW.”$85.00Roswell & Denver: DBA/JCA Editions, 1983. First edition. 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in strip-bound wrappers with clear top sheet. Cover art by John Furnival. One of 200 numbered and inscribed copies for friends of Williams and Furnival. This is copy 62 for “Jim and Mary Ann” and initialed by Williams, “JW.” Original mailing envelope present, festooned with a number of rubber stamps.
$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.$35.00Cumbria: Jonathan Williams (1975). First edition. Single large sheet folded once (11 x 8 1/2 inches, closed). Fine. An essay by Williams, who has INITIALED this copy at his essay’s conclusion.$85.00Durham: Duke University Press (1985). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [112 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket in publisher’s fine, but very snug, slipcase. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.$100.00NY: Grossman, 1971. First edition. [164 pp]. Fine in near fine printed (on the flaps only) parchment dust jacket with some light edge wear. Poems with photographs by Nicholas Dern.
$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.$35.00Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1990). First edition. 24 pp. Tiny bump to crown, else fine in sewn wrappers. Williams’ prose with ten illustrations. One of 500 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.$45.00Highlands: Jargon, 1962. First edition. 44 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers and near fine clear acetate dust jacket with one small tear. Preface by Robert Duncan. One of 750 copies. Illustrated with two photographs, one by Aaron Siskind, the other by Jonathan Williams. Designed by Jonathan Williams. Dated (1963) and SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Jargon 13 (b).$45.00London: Poet & Printer, 1967. First edition. 16 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Williams to Wormwood Review editor Marvin Malone, “Marvin’s / from / me / Epi-Poet / Aspen / 67.” Original mailing envelope accompanies.$45.00London: Poet & Printer, 1967. First edition. 16 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. INSCRIBED by Williams, “Douglas’s copy / from Jonathan / Toronto / 1977.”$35.00Storrs: [University of Connecticut Library] (1974). First edition. Folding card, 4 x 5 1/2 inches, closed. Fine. Short work by Williams, issued in an edition of 300 copies on the occasion of his reading at the University. INSCRIBED by Williams, “For Gerard / from Lamed-Vovnik #36 1/2 / in Brownie’s in December (19).”$75.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. [24 pp w/notes]. Tiny bend to crown, else fine in sewn wrappers. Poems with drawings by Philip Van Aver. One of 750 copies printed by Dave Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. Auerhahn 20. INSCRIBED by Williams on the front free endpaper, “if you don’t like my peaches / baby, don’t you shake my tree! / - Orpheus.”$55.00San Francisco: Auerhahn Press, 1962. First edition. [24 pp w/notes]. Near fine in sewn wrappers. Poems with drawings by Philip Van Aver. One of 750 copies printed by Dave Haselwood and Andrew Hoyem. INSCRIBED by Williams on the half-title page, “for / Felix / from / Jonathan / Cheers / and / Prosit / 1964 / Madison.” Auerhahn 20.$25.00Frankfort: Gnomon Press (1985). Third edition, first printing. 48 pp. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some faint toning to front panel. Quotations assembled by Williams, with his introduction. Includes a sixth section of quotations, not in earlier editions. INSCRIBED by Williams, “for Alex / one magpie to another / love from Jonathan / Kent 1986.” Jaffe 152.$25.00Frankfort: Gnomon Press (1985). Third edition, first printing. 48 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers with some faint toning to front panel. Quotations assembled by Williams, with his introduction. Includes a sixth section of quotations, not in earlier editions. INSCRIBED by Williams, “for Jack / from / Jonathan / New Year / 1986 / Highlands.” Jaffe 152.
$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.$50.00Roswell & Denver: DBA/JCA Editions, 1985. First edition. 4to. [100 pp]. Near fine in strip-bound wrappers. Color cover Xerox art by Karl Torok. One of 175 copies INSCRIBED by Williams for “Henry / Lord Stodge.”
$75.00Highlands: Nantahala Foundation, 1963. First trade edition. Oblong 48mo. [20 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Cover art by R.B. Kitaj. Dated (1963) and SIGNED by Williams inside the front cover. Jargon 61.$100.00Aspen + Stuttgart: Aspen Center for Contemporary Art / Edition Domberger (1968). First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in cord-sewn wrappers with wrap-around printed paper cover. Williams’ poem, with a serigraph by Alex Katz (who designed this item), based on a Lilo Raymond photograph of Juan Antonio wearing a costume designed by Robert Indiana. One of 50 (of 200) numbered copies for sale SIGNED by Williams and Katz on the colophon page. Jaffe 56.
$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.$75.00London: Turret Books, 1967. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [32 pp]. Foxing along top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Illustrated with tipped-on drawings by John Furnival. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.
$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.$250.00London: Turret Books, 1967. First edition. 4to. [30 pp]. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a hint of sunning to spine. Poems with illustrations, several tipped-on, by John Furnival. Designed and printed at the Trigram Press. Painter R.B. Kitaj’s copy, with his inked name to the half title page, where it is also INSCRIBED by Williams, “This copy of [the Lucidites] for the Old Light Bringer from Chagrin Falls from Col. Sanders J. Catullus Himself Love! from Asp-Per Oy.”
$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.$25.00St. Paul: Truck Press (1977). First edition. 58 pp. Front cover a bit curled, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. “Alex / with / Love / from / Jonathan / May / 1977 / Highlands.”$25.00St. Paul: Truck Press (1977). First edition. 58 pp. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. INSCRIBED by Williams, “for / the merchents / from / Jonathan / Satie’s birthday / 1977 / Highlands.”