Le Garage Ravi de Rocky Mount. An Essay on Vernon Burwell. Cover Photographs by Roger Manley
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Rocky Mount): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press, (1988). First edition. Published on the occasion of the Annie Hooper Exhibition & Visionary Folk Art Symposium at North Carolina State University. One of only 50 numbered copies signed by JW, Burwell, Manley, & Jonathan Greene, who designed the pamphlet (out of a total edition of 1000 copies). Jaffe A173. Fine copy. MANLEY, Roger. 4to, pictorial glossy wrappers. Fine copy.
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An Ear In Bartram's Tree. Selected Poems 1957-1967. Introduction by Guy Davenport
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. First edition. One of 2000 copies. Jaffe A57. Inscribed by JW on half-title page: "from the Ear-Poet, Love or Love to Cynthia, C. H. 69". With comments on the front flap of the jacket by William Carlos Williams, James Dickey, James Laughlin, Edward Dahlberg & Gilbert Sorrentino. Small stain on top edge, otherwise a fine copy in a stained, lightly worn jacket.. 8vo, green cloth, dust jacket. Small stain on... Read More
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The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company. Poems. Drawings by John Furnival
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(London): Turret Books, 1967. First edition. One of 30 copies specially bound for the author with the orange jacket over the regular white one, out of a total edition of 280 copies printed by the Trigram Press. Jaffe A48. Presentation copy, inscribed by JW: "for Edward [Dahlberg], who sheds light like a human sun, love from Jonathan, Aspen March 1968. Fine copy. FURNIVAL, John. 8vo, 4 tipped-in illustrations, gold foil endpapers, white boards, white & orange dust jackets.... Read More
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The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company. Poems. Drawings by John Furnival
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(London): Turret Books, 1967. First edition. One of 30 copies specially bound for the author with the orange jacket over the regular white one, out of a total edition of 280 copies printed by the Trigram Press. Jaffe A48. Inscribed by JW: "for One Light Poet from Another, love to Jimmy [Broughton] from Jonathan, Aspen March 1968. Small faint stain on front cover, otherwise a fine copy.. FURNIVAL, John. 8vo, 4 tipped-in illustrations, gold foil endpapers, white boards,... Read More
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The Delian Seasons. Four poems. With illustrations by Karl Torok
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
London: Coracle Press, 1982. First edition. One of 50 copies signed by JW & Torok. Jaffe A138. Fine copy.. TOROK, Karl. 8vo, pictorial wrappers, acetate dust jacket. Fine copy.
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Elegies and Celebrations. (Preface by Robert Duncan)
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1962. First edition. One of 750 copies. Jargon 13b. Jaffe A22. Presentation copy, inscribed by JW: "for Kenneth [Rexroth] with love from Jonathan, Highlands 1963. Fine copy. SISKIND, Aaron. 8vo, illustrated with photographs by Aaron Siskind, photographic wrappers by JW, glassine dust jacket. Fine copy.
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Jonathan Williams' Quote Book 1992-1993
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Highlands, NC: Press of Otis the Lamedvovnik, 1994). First edition of this 37-page addendum to Williams' previous compilations of enlightening quotations from Plato to RuPaul. Limited to 125 copies signed by JW. As new.. 4to, pictorial wrappers by James McGarrell. As new.
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A Blue Ridge Weather Prophet Makes Twelve Stitches in Time on the Twelfth Day of Christmas
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Frankfort, KY): Gnomon, (1977). First edition. One of only 26 lettered copies handbound in boards by Deborah Bosley of the Bittersweet Bindery & signed by JW & the publisher, Jonathan Greene. Jaffe A107. Fine copy. Rare. WHITESEL, Carolyn. 12mo, illustrations by Carolyn Whitesel, cloth-backed boards. Fine copy. Rare.
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The Map of Kentucky and Its Litany of Glorifications
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Vancouver, B. C.: Slug Press, 1990. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by JW. As new. Folio, broadside poem. As new.
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I Shall Save One Land Unvisited. Eleven Southern Photographers. Selected by Jonathan Williams. Organized by Ray Kass. Texts by Ray Kass, James Baker Hall & Jonathan Williams
by (WILLIAMS, Jonathan)
(Frankfort, KY): Gnomon Press, (1978). First edition. Featuring photographs by Lyle Bonge, Alex Harris, Paul Kwilecki, John McWilliams, Sally Mann, Robert C. May, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, John Menapace, Guy Mendes, Bart Parker & Evon Streetman. With an introductory essay by JW. Jaffe B28. Fine copy. 4to, black & white photographs, black wrappers. Fine copy.
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A Garden Carried In A Pocket: Letters 1964-1968. Edited by Thomas Meyer
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan & Guy DAVENPORT
Haverford: Green Shade, 2004. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Williams and Davenport out of a total edition of 526 copies printed. Designed by The Grenfell Press & printed by Trifolio, Verona, Italy. "We are not celebrities. No one has known quite what to make of a patrician satirist and lyric poet from Highlands, North Carolina, or of an essayist and short story writer from Anderson, South Carolina." - Guy Davenport. "It is clear that G.... Read More
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In the Field at the Solstice. Seven Epitaphs for His Friends
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Champaign, IL: Finial Press, 1976. First edition. One of 103 copies printed by Alvin Doyle Moore at the Finial Press. Jaffe A101. Inscribed by JW: "David's [Wilk] from Jonathan". David Wilk was the founder of Truck Press & later the distributor for the Jargon Society at Inland Books. As new. Rare.. Square 8vo, 8 loose sheets in red Americana paper portfolio. As new. Rare.
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Homage, Umbrage, Quibble & Chicane. Poems 1980. Drawings by John Furnival
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Roswell, NM: DBA Editions, 1981. First edition. One of 120 copies numbered & inscribed by JW, "this copy for Satch from the Late Harland Sanders, Highlands, 1981". Jaffe A129. Velo binder starting at the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy. FURNIVAL, John. 4to, pictorial card covers by Furnival, acetate wrappers in white Velo binder. Velo binder starting at the head of the spine, otherwise a fine copy.
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Niches Inches: New & Selected Poems, 1957-1981. Introduction by Eric Mottram. Notes by JW. Cover by Karl Torok. Frontispiece by John Furnival
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Corn Close, Dentdale: (no publisher), 1982. First edition. One of 75 copies. Signed by JW, Mottram, Torok, & Furnival. Jaffe A137. Fine copy.. FURNIVAL, John. 4to, card covers with color print xerox by Torok, glassine wrappers in white Velo binder. Fine copy.
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Hasidic Exclamation On Stevie Smith's Poem "Not Waving But Drowning
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Storrs, CT: University of Connecticut, 1974). First edition. One of 300 copies. Jaffe A82. Fine copy. 16mo, broadside poem. Fine copy.
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Open Wide
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Derby: Artlocate, 1992. First edition, regular issue. As new.. 4to, wrappers with tipped-on photograph. As new.
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Metafours For Mysophobes
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Twickenham & Wakefield: North and South, (1989). First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by JW & with a holographic metafour: "if michael angelo had used / a roller he would / have gotten the ceiling / done quicker reckons Kitaj, Jonathan Williams. As new. 8vo, glossy yellow wrappers with front cover photograph by JW & back cover photograph of JW by Douglas Lewis. As new.
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Lord Stodge's Good Thing Guide To Over 100 English Delights. Texts. Cover Xeroxes: Karl Torok
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Roswell/Denver: DBA/JCA Editions, 1985. First edition. One of 175 copies inscribed to friends by JW as a reverse birthday present on his natal day. Jaffe A153. Inscribed for "Ralph and Louise [Sargent] by Lord Stodge, with love. Fine copy. TOROK, Karl. 4to, color-xerox covers by Torok, acetate wrappers in green Velo binder. Fine copy.
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gAy BCs with drawings by Joe Brainard (In the Action Comix Manner) by Jonathan Williams (In the Absolutely Innocent, Dead-Pan Manner of Kate Greenaway)
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Champaign, IL: Finial Press, 1976. First edition. One of 1000 copies on Strathmore Grandee paper, designed by Alvin Doyle Moore. Jaffe A100. Fine copy.. BRAINARD, Joe. Oblong 8vo, wrappers. Fine copy.
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Pairidaeza. A Celebration in Lithography & Poetry For the Garden at Levens Hall, Westmorland, By Ian Gardner & Jonathan Williams
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Dentdale, Cumbria: Jargon Society, 1975. First edition. Published as Jargon 80. Limited to 75 copies signed by the author & artist (the entire edition). An expensive production which received virtually no distribution in the U. S. when it was published. Very fine copy. Folio, 15 poems & 13 original lithographs loose in green cloth portfolio as issued. Very fine copy.
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The Lucidities: Sixteen in Visionary Company. Poems. Drawings by John Furnival
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(London): Turret Books, 1967. First edition. One of 30 copies specially bound for the author with the orange jacket over the regular white one, out of a total edition of 280 copies printed by the Trigram Press. Jaffe A48. Presentation copy, inscribed by JW: "for Kenneth [Rexroth], whose art and friendship have been bringing light to my life for 20 years, love from Jonathan, Aspen March 1968. Some soiling on the endpapers, otherwise a fine copy.. FURNIVAL, John.... Read More
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Red / Gray. Drawings & declaration: Paul Ellsworth
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Black Mountain College: Jonathan Williams, 1952. First edition. One of 100 copies in paper wrapper. Jargon 3. Some soiling, one plate loose, but still a very good copy in worn envelope. One of the rarest Jargon publications, Red / Gray is almost never found in either of its variant bindings and usually appears as unbound sheets. 4to, large single sheet folded into sixths with 4 tipped-on plates, in glossy paper folder, original envelope. Some soiling, one plate loose,... Read More
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Blues & Roots/Rue & Bluets: A Garland for the Appalachians. Introduction by Herbert Leibowitz
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Durham, NC): Duke University Press, (1985). New edition, enlarged; originally published in 1971. One of 75 specially bound and numbered copies signed by Williams. Fine copy.. Small 4to, blue cloth, dust jacket, slipcase. Fine copy.
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Epitaphs For Lorine. Edited and Introduced by Jonathan Williams
by (WILLIAMS, Jonathan, editor)
Penland, NC: Jargon Society, 1973. First edition of this collection celebrating Lorine Niedecker. One of 1000 copies. Jargon 74. With contributions from A. A. Ammons, Basil Bunting, Guy Davenport, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, among others. Fine copy. 12mo, frontispiece print by A. D. Moore, plain wrappers, dust jacket with back cover by Ian Hamilton Finlay & front cover photograph by Diane Tammes. Fine copy.
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In the Azure Over the Squalor: Ransackings & Shorings
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(N. Y.: Jordan Davies, 1983). First edition. One of 75 copies printed on Opale de Rives paper and signed by JW. Jaffe A146. Fine copy in chipped acetate. Large 8vo, original green cloth-backed burgundy boards with printed spine label, publisher's acetate dust jacket. Fine copy in chipped acetate.
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