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$25.00Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2008. First edition. 102 pp w/notes & chronology. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Oresick on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED on the second leaf. -
$25.00Stockton: Wormwood Books and Magazines (1992). First trade edition. [40 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 630 (of 700) numbered copies. Entire issue devoted to Weidman’s collection A LITTLE EDGE.
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$45.00London: Peter Lunn, 1946. First edition. 143 pp w/index. Near fine in very good plus illustrated dust jacket with chipping to crown, and a few short edge tears. Foreword by Francis Pitt. Poems by Todd, illustrated with engravings selected from Thomas Bewick’s HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. SIGNED by Philip Whalen in full inside the front board.
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$35.00San Francisco: Auguste Press, 2001. First edition. [64 pp w/notes]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 574 (of 600) copies. Dated (11-15-01) and INSCRIBED by Ballard on the title page.
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$150.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press, 2003. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 8vo. 10 pp. Fine in paper-covered boards with morocco spine and pasted-on cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 26 lettered copies on Somerset paper SIGNED by Reed. Reed’s thoughtful appreciation of a slightly earlier, “openly gay American poet, who offered no apologies for his confessional disclosures, and who used all experience, no matter how compromising as legitimate material for art.” -
$75.00North Pomfret: Elysium Press, 2003. First edition, numbered issue. 8vo. 10 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 100 numbered copies on Somerset paper.
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$75.00Cleveland: Asphodel Book Shop, 1969. First edition. [16 pp]. Staples rusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Dated (Aspen / 1969) and INSCRIBED by Williams, “this is for / Arnold / for / remaining / literate - / i.e., / using his ear / like a camera / from / the / Thyrsus Bearer / salut!.”
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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.”
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$25.00Frankfort: Truck/Gnomon (1979). First edition. [116 pp]. Covers sunned and rubbed, top edge foxed. In all, very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Williams on the title page, “JW, / Col., /unretired.”
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$75.00Haverford: James S. Jaffe, 1989. First edition, numbered & signed issue. xii + 56 pp. Faint foxing along top edge, else fine in wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Introduction by Guy Davenport. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams and Davenport. “Apology” slip laid in. Together with Asphodel Books Catalogue 100: Jonathan Williams, and offering of 100 priced items by JW. For the pair: -
$350.00Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1979. First edition, lettered & signed issue. 12mo. 85 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine unprinted glassine dust jacket. Translated from the original Arabic by Paul Bowles. Foreword by Gavin Lamberg, concluding note by Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Choukri and Bowles.
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$150.00Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1985. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 116 pp. Very light bump to upper outside corners, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Six internal illustrations with a reproduction of a small collage by John Digby on the front cover. Near fine publisher’s slipcase. One of 50 numbered copies on Fava paper SIGNED by Windham. -
$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.
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$35.00Buffalo: Intrepid, 1970. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 54 pp. Very good plus in stapled wrappers. Entire issue of Intrepid devoted to this work by Mazzaro. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by Mazzaro.
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$950.00Candia: John LeBow, 1997. First edition, deluxe issue, for friends. A 42 pp pamphlet (fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket), a twenty page hardcover photo album (fine in full cloth, no dust jacket, as issued), and an envelope of ephemera (all elements fine). The lot is housed in the fine publisher’s clamshell box with printed cover and spine labels. Laid into the pamphlet is a photographic print “for contributors and friends.” One of 15 (of 65) numbered copies for friends of the press, not offered for sale. This copy is SIGNED by Wilson, Di Prima, McClure, Baraka, Ashbery, Levertov, Broughton, Wakoski, Wieners, Clements, and Sanders, and is additionally INSCRIBED by Wilson, “For Burton Weiss, with thanks for all / the years of his friendship and support / across decades and continents, and with / love, / from / Bob W.” -
$12.50Pleasant Hill: Small Poetry Press 1992. First edition, limited issue 36 pp. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Chapbook made up of Witt’s poems. INSCRIBED by Witt, “for Jim - / always, / Harold.”