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Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First edition, paperwraps issue. One of 1,000 paper copies. Very good. INSCRIBED BY EVERSON, "To The Kresge Steno Pool/ who typed the manuscript/ Bill Everson/ July 19, 76/ Kresge." Item #55700 More
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1976. First edition, paperwraps issue. One of 1,000 paper copies. Very good. INSCRIBED BY EVERSON, "To The Kresge Steno Pool/ who typed the manuscript/ Bill Everson/ July 19, 76/ Kresge." Item #55700 More
New Haven: Henry W. Wenning, 1966. First edition. Number 41 of 218 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON (the first 18 of which were reserved for friends of the poet and publisher). 8vo slender decorated paper boards; calf spine lettered in blind. Printed by Claude Fredericks on Kochi paper. Spine a bit..... Item #55688 More
Northridge: Lord John Press, 1982. First separate edition, first edition thus. One of 125 SIGNED numbered copies of this illustrated single-sheet poetry broadside designed and printed by Henry Morris for the Lord John Press. Approximately 20 x 14". Suitable for framing. Fine. Item #55439 More
Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1986. First edition. Illustrated with five mounted photos of Everson, signed by Leigh Wiener, printed by Patrick Reagh on Arches heavyweight paper. Signed by Everson, Wiener, Reagh. Prospectus, letters from Mel Smith, boxed in cloth chemise/slipcase. #55/90 (there were an additional 10 not for sale)..... Item #55621 More
Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1977. Number 96 of 100 cop,ies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Illustrated by Richard Hotchkiss with photos by Jerry N. Uelsmann. Printed by the Blue Oak Press, Newcastle, Ca. Bound in quarter brown cloth with natural linen covered boards. Gilt-lettered spine. Fine in white illustrated dust jacket with..... Item #55684 More
San Francisco: John Holcomb, 1994. Printed in the year that Everson died in memory and celebration. 5 x 10" folio printed in blue and black ink on cream paper. Set inside stiff paper cover of medium gray stock with deckled edge. Item #55689 More
Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1976. First edition. Number 102 of 250 SIGNED numbered copies (of which 200 were for sale). There were also 26 lettered hardbound copies and 1,000 softcover trade copies. Folio. Illustrated from erotic line drawings by Patrick Kennedy. Bound in half calf and decorated paper over boards with..... Item #55676 More
Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1939. First edition. ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES of his second book and first to be hardbound. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. ASSOCIATION COPY INSCRIBED BY EVERSON TO HIS FRIEND AND OYEZ PRESS FOUNDER ROBERT HAWLEY, "for Bob Hawley/ very happy to inscribe this copy..... Item #55619 More
Boston: Ann & David Bromer, 1980. First edition. Number 87 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED by Everson (from a total edition of 126). Approximately 14 x 18" poetry broadside printed by Richard Bigus and hand-illuminated in gold, blue, red, brown and black by Maureen Carey and with two hand..... Item #55442 More
(Santa Cruz): Peter and Donna Thomas, 1995. First edition. Number 14 of 75 copies SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHERS / ILLUSTRATOR (there were an additional seven lettered copies in boards). Posthumously published collection of six previously unpublished poems written from 1972 β 1974. Peter Thomas studied under Everson and was his..... Item #55620 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1973. #215/250 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Designed and printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press. Hand-bound by Cardoza-James Bindery, San Francisco, with a quarter-leather spine and decorated paper-covered boards. The type is Goudy Thirty, set by Mackenzie and Harris of San Francisco. The mould-made paper..... Item #55679 More
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1944. First edition. 11 poems reflects the poet's pacifist philosophy with the last one written βin 1943 shortly after my induction into a camp for conscientious objectors here on the Oregon coast.β Published November 1944 in an edition of 975 copies; preceded my a mimeographed version..... Item #55699 More
San Francisco / Santa Rosa: Adrian Wilson / Black Sparrow Press, (1984) / 1990. First edition. Two volumes. Everson's unfinished autobiographical verse epic. Includes IN MEDIAS RES, which is a work of art, designed, printed and published by Adrian Wilson in 1984. Number 126 of 226 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON..... Item #71580 More
New York: Fordham University Press, 1995. First edition. Casebound, in dust jacket. Presentation copy. Contains 10 essays, including those by Everson, Hunt, Soldofsky, Beers, Zaller, Brophy, Vardamis, Rothman, Glaser and a panel discussion. Well-crafted throughout and several are absolutely outstanding in that they serve to give a solid understanding of..... Item #55613 More
(Santa Cruz, Calif. Porter College, University of California, 1990). First edition. Bi-annual literary journal of Porter College. This issue with "Jeffers Symposium" pp.71-134 featuring articles on Jeffers and his work by James D. Houston, Carolyn Kizer, Dana Gioia, Tim Hunt, Sharyn C. Blumenthal, Diane Wakoski, et al. Also includes "An..... Item #55763 More
(Santa Cruz): Lime Kiln Press, 1973. First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black..... Item #55594 More
No-place: Tor House Press, 1989. First edition. In paperwraps. This presentation copy is INSCRIBED BY ZALLER, "For Allen Mears/with warm regards/Robert Zaller 10.28.89." An Autograph Note Signed from editor is laid in. Introduction by Zaller. Poems by Everson, Reynolds, (has phrase "Fragments of an Older Fury") Hass, Milosz, Williamson, Tate..... Item #55610 More
Aromas, California: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition, trade issue. Preceded by a limited edition in 1973. Commentary and notes by William Everson. Fine in near fine white dust jacket with very minor wear. Item #55745 More
[Aromas, CA]: Cayucos Books, 1973. First edition. Previously unpublished poetry. Limited to 250 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON who provides Commentary and Notes. AN INTERESTING TWO-VOLUME SET composed of copies number 128 and 207. Number 128 with spine stamped in gilt, mylar jacket, and publisher's prospectus laid in with Robinson..... Item #56184 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition. Number 283 of 285 SIGNED BY EVERSON, who edited and provided commentary, notes, and an afterword. Foreword by Peter Bartlett. Designed by Graham Mackintosh, printed in two colors by Noel Young. Bound in one-quarter leather boards. Measures 9.25" x 6". Very good to..... Item #55871 More
Aromas, CA: Cayucos Books, 1974. First edition. #173/285 SIGNED by Everson. Foreword by Peter Bartlett, other text by Everson. Designed by Graham Mackintosh, printed in two colors by Noel Young. Bound in one-quarter leather boards. Measures 9.25 x 6". As issued w/o dust jacket. Bookplate of Allen Mears, limited marginalia..... Item #55872 More