Port Reyes Station, California: Floating Island Publications, 1981. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 42pp. Edition limited to 500 copies. Signed and inscribed by the author to half-title with a signed, handwritten letter to the book's recipient laid in. A touch of shelfwear, light dust soiling, and light toning to... More about The Golden Legend
New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/8". 227pp. Full number line indicating first printing. Mild shelfwear to dust jacket. Black quarter-cloth binding, with front cover blind stamped and spine lettered in metallic red. Spine visible at center, binding remains sound. Contents are clean... More about Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds
Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 137pp. Signed by Jonathan Williams to title page. Edition limited to 526. A touch of rubbing to corners and light scratching to wraps, else fine in tight, sound binding with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. A wonderful volume... More about A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968
Rocky Mount, North Carolina: North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, 1991. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". 249pp. Mild edgewear to paper wraps, else near fine in sound binding, with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. A nice, clean copy of this new edition of Fielding Dawson's account of Black... More about The Black Mountain Book: A New Edition, Revised & Enlarged
New York: Telephone Books, 1978. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 8 1/4" X 6". Unpaginated. Edition limited to 26 signed and lettered copies, this being letter P, out of a total edition of 1026. Signed by Fielding Dawson on limitation page. Very light edgewear and soiling to stapled pictorial wraps. Binding... More about Delayed: Not Postponed
New York: Penguin Group, 2007. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 5 7/8". 323pp. First printing, with full number line. A touch of shelfwear to paper wraps, else fine in tight, sound binding with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. A very nice first edition copy of this collection of... More about Way More West: New and Selected Poems
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 5 7/8". 361pp. Light sunning, dust soiling, and edgewear to pictorial paper wraps, with small closed tear to front cover at edge of spine. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A solid, if lightly worn... More about Young Robert Duncan: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society
Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2002. Paperback. 12 1/2" X 9". 315pp. A touch of edgewear to paper wraps, else fine in tight, sound binding with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. From rear cover: "In this definitive account of the arts at Black Mountain College, back in print... More about The Arts at Black Mountain College
New York: Hudson Hills Press and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 1994. Paperback. 11 3/4" X 8 7/8". 144pp. Moderate edgewear to paper wraps, in tight, sound binding with uncreased spine. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. Contents: "Adolph Gottlieb and Art in New York in the 1930s" by... More about The Pictographs of Adolph Gottlieb
Penland, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 5/8". 140pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Very light dust soiling to edges of flaps and foxing to verso, else fine. Yellow pictorial cloth over boards, with corn illustration in black to front... More about Patagoni
Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1999. First Edition. Paperback. 11" X 8". 257pp. Edtion limited to 1000, with 900 copies in wraps. Light cover wear to glossy pictorial dust jacket over purple wraps. Previous owner's inscription to title page. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked... More about At Dusk Iridescent: A Gathering of Poems 1972-1997
Austin, Texas: Skanky Possum, 2003. Staplebound wraps. 8 3/8" X 5 1/4". 64pp. Fine in stiff red paper wraps. A very nice copy of this collection of poems by Thomas Meyer, including "Book II," "This is the House," "Quincunx," "Part 4," and "Trikona." More about Coromandel
[Highlands, North Carolina]: The Jargon Society, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/4" X 6 1/4". Unpaginated. Signed by Thomas Meyer to title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Light creasing to dust jacket at edge of spine, else fine. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in... More about Staves Calends Legends
Wakefield, Rhode Island and London: Asphodel Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". 300pp. Stated First Edition. Signed by editor Robert J. Bertholf, but with white out over part of the last name, accompanied by a brief inscription. Mild shelfwear to dust jacket and black cloth covered... More about Drawing from Life
Asheville, North Carolina: Black Mountain College Museum and Art Center, 1999. Paperback. 10" X 7". 98pp. Very mild shelfwear to paper wraps with french folds. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. Includes Leverett T. Smith, Jr.'s exploration of the semi-autobiographical fiction, often concerning life as... More about Eroticizing the Nation: Michael Rumaker's Fiction (Black Mountain Dossiers, No. 6
Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, S.A., 1990. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 8 1/2". 128pp. Lacking dust jacket. Mild dust soiling and rubbing to edges of cream cloth covered boards. Spine lettered in black. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. Contents: Introduction, Chronology, Selected Bibliography, Major Museum Collections... More about Kenneth Noland
N.P. Turtle Point Press, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. 8 7/8" X 6". 243pp. Stated First Edition. Light wear to paper wraps, with a touch of shelfwear and a spot of mild soiling to bottom edge of text block near spine. Crease to rear cover and last pages, else near fine... More about Blackbird Dust: Essays, Poems, and Photographs
Metuchen, New Jersey: The Scarecrow Press, 1982. Hardcover. 8 3/4" X 5 5/8". 175pp. A touch of shelfwear and gently bumped corners to red buckram covered boards, with spine and front cover lettered in white. Neatly pencilled bookseller notations to front free endpaper. Binding is tight and sound. Pages are... More about Get Hot or Get Out: A Selection of Poems, 1957-1981
Scaly Mountain, North Carolina: The Press of Otis the Lamed-Vovnik (Jonathan Williams), 1994. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Flatsigned by Jonathan Williams only to limitation page. Edition limited to 250. A touch of edgewear to pictorial dust jacket and red stapled wraps, else fine. Bookseller notations... More about Horny & Ornery: Poems of Solace in Desolate Times by a Gentleman in the South
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/8". Signed by Jonathan Williams on title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, with light dust soiling and one light scratch to front cover. Green cloth... More about In An Ear Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems, 1957-1967
Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 304pp. Stated First Printing. A touch of shelfwear to paper wraps, else fine in tight, sound binding, with uncreased spine and bright, clean, unmarked pages. From rear cover: "Jubilant Thicket teems with the eccentric, strange, and boundlessly... More about Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. First Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". 185pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket and paper wraps, with dust soiling to bottom edges. Foxing to edges of text block. Erased pencilled markings to top corner of front free endpaper. Binding is tight and sound, with spine... More about The Magpie's Bagpipe
Asheville, North Carolina: French Broad Press, 1991. James McGarrell. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 1/2". Unpaginated. Signed & Inscribed by Jonathan Williams to half-title page. Edition limited to 300.A touch of edgewear to dust jacket and purple stapled wraps, else fine. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are... More about Quantulumcumque
Scaly Mountain, North Carolina: The Press of Otis The Lamed-Vovnik (Jonathan Williams), 1996. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 11" X 8 3/8". 37pp. Signed and numbered by Jonathan Williams on limitation page. Edition limited to 250, this being number 250 (though it seems there are many numbered 250, perhaps all bear... More about Long Taters: Jonathan Williams' Quote Book 1994
Belper, Derbyshire: Aggie Weston's Editions, 2002. First Edition. Staplebound wraps. 7 7/8" X 5 1/2". Unpaginated. Stapled paper wraps with light shelfwear. Binding is tight and sound. Contents are clean, bright, and unmarked. Selected poems include the writings of the following poets: Sappho translated by Guy Davenport, Matsuo Basho translated... More about Poet's Poems No. 12
