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$25.00New Haven: LongRiver Books (1988). First trade edition. 159 pp w/bibliography. Bump to one upper corner, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Metcalf on the title page. -
$75.00Highlands: Jargon Society, 1976. First edition. [64 pp w/bibliographies]. Fine in wrappers and near fine printed dust jacket with sunned spine. Metcalf’s fourth Jargon book. Dated (March, 1976) and INSCRIBED by Metcalf, “For Alex Gildzen, / cheers! / Paul Metcalf.” Jargon 78.
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$45.00Penland: Jargon Society, 1971. First edition. Small 4to. 140 pp w/bibliography. Foxing along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine, and along top edges. Jargon 58.
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$15.00Barrytown: Station Hill Press (1979). First edition. 16 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Part of Metcalf’s longer work, WATERS OF THE POTOWMACK.
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$45.00Lawrence: Tansy Press (1982). First edition. 36 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in stapled wrappers with two light bends to spine. Text on Mt. Pelee and the tragedy of Martinique assembled into poetic and prose form from original and other sources. Dated (June, 1982) and INSCRIBED by Metcalf to one of his publisher, “For Bob Callahan, / cheers! / Paul.”
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$12.50Rocky Mount: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1993). First trade paperback printing. 138 pp w/bibliography. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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$25.00Berkeley: North Point [1982]. First edition. 11 x 16 inch illustrated broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. A promotional poster for the book of the same title.
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$20.00Lawrence: Tansy (1977). First edition. [8 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
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$12.50Lenox: Bookstore Press (1973). Second edition, first printing. 76 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Originally published by Jargon Society in 1956.
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$400.00London & Brussels: Nicholson & Watson (1948). First edition. 352 pp. Very good plus in full cloth. Jacket flaps and cover panels clipped and pasted the endpapers. Metcalfe’s own copy. Dated (November 9, 1948) and SIGNED by Metcalfe inside the front cover above his personalized bookplate. There are at least six corrections by Metcalfe to the text. -
$10.00Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1979. First edition. Near fine in hand-sewn wraps. With a hand-written note from the author, SIGNED, asking for a review.
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$10.00Easthampton, MA: Adastra Press, 1981. First edition. Near fine in wraps. Review copy with material laid in.
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$10.00Woodinville: Laughing Bear Press (1979). First edition. 63 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems.
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$10.00Urbana, IL: Peradam Publishing, 1978. First edition. Near fine in wraps. Author’s first book.
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$35.00N. c.N. p. No date. Unpublished manuscript. Near fine 109 pg. xeroxed manuscript, submitted to Doubleday, with a rejection letter from the well-known editor Luther Nichols, turning down the book for publication and explaining why in a gentle, perceptive manner. Subsequently published by West Coast Poetry Review, 1979. In original mailing envelope from Doubleday.
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$45.00Detroit & London: Gale Research, Inc. (1989). First edition. 619 pp. Very near fine in illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. “Contains more than four hundred entries on twentieth-century black writers, all updated or originally written for this volume.”
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$25.00Berkeley: imPRESS (1982). First edition. 75 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers.
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$85.00Winston-Salem: Jargon Society, 1999. First trade edition. 4to. 257 pp. Fine in plain wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece photograph by Mark Steinmetz. One of 900 copies. SIGNED Meyer and the publisher, Jonathan Williams, who was Meyer's longtime companion and the first of the book's dedicatees, on the title page. Additionally INSCRIBED by Meyer, “For Burton Weiss from TM on the 14th of February 2000.” Jargon 102.
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$75.00Winston-Salem: Jargon Society, 1999. First trade edition. 4to. 257 pp. Fine in plain wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Frontispiece photograph by Mark Steinmetz. One of 900 copies. SIGNED Meyer and Jonathan Williams (his publisher and partner), who is also the first of the book's dedicatees. Jargon 102. -
$40.00[Highlands: Jargon Society, 1979]. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card, printed in two colors. Fine. Near fine printed envelope. SIGNED by Meyer. Jargon 51.
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$35.00[Highlands: Jargon Society, 1979]. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch card, printed in two colors. Fine. Very good plus printed envelope that is lightly soiled. SIGNED by Meyer. Jargon 51. -
$15.00Lawrence: Tansey Press (1981). First edition. [12 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems.
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$50.00Asheville: French Broad Press, 1989. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine illustrated dust jacket. Jacket text by Jonathan Williams. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meyer and Williams. Additionally SIGNED by Jessa Bayer and J.W. Bonner, who published this book. -
$250.00Champaign: Finial Press, 1983. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 50 numbered copies, the entire edition, SIGNED by Meyer. Another beautiful book from the press, printed in five colors. -
$75.00(np): Finial Press, 1973. First edition. [14 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 200 copies on Curtis Rag paper. Drawings by Michael Carol Franklin-White. INSCRIBED by Meyer on the front cover, “Tom gave Douglas / this book the 17th / of July while visiting / Corn Close 1977.” Young 2686*.
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$200.00(np): Jargon Society (1979). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [182 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontispiece drawing by John Furnival. One of 26 lettered copies SIGNED by Meyer. Jargon 88. Young 2688.
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$75.00(np): Jargon Society (1971). First edition. [184 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. Frontis drawing by John Furnival. Poems. Jargon 88. -
$45.00Highlands: Jargon Society, 1971. First edition. [52 pp]. Small bit of foxing to fore-edge, else fine in fine dust jacket and fine printed clear acetate dust jacket. A long poem by Meyer, with illustrations by John Furnival. Jargon 69. Young 2684*.
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$100.00Urbana: Finial Press/Stonewall Press (1971). First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in artificial leather-covered boards. Three-color, hand-woven macrame bookmark bound in. One of 250 copies on Rives Light. A long poem with a printed dedication to Guy Davenport. Berger 46. Young 2687. -
$35.00Scarborough: Catalyst (1977). First trade paperback printing. [48 pp]. Fine in wrappers and near fine integral illustrated dust jacket with lightly sunned spine. One of 451 (0f 500) copies. INSCRIBED by Meyer on the title page, “white pearls / his tan belly / a light- / rain / for / Alex / from Tom / full moon in / April 1979.”
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$100.00Scarborough: Catalyst (1977). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [48 pp]. Fine in full cloth and very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and design by A. Doyle Moore. Drawings by Tom Kovacs. Introduction by Jonathan William. One of 49 numbered copies SIGNED by Meyer and Williams. -
$150.00Scarborough: Catalyst (1977). First edition, numbered & signed issue. [48 pp]. Fine in full cloth and near fine dust jacket. Poems by Meyer with an introduction by Jonathan William. One of 49 numbered copies SIGNED by Meyer and Williams. Young 2690*.