New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition. One of 1,000 copies of this limited edition. Printed by Peter Beilsen in black, illustrated in two colors, umber and red. A very attractive book of this, the author's first major collection. Bound in brown or brick colored cloth with printed, patterned paper..... Item #55692 More
San Francisco: The Poetry Center San Francisco State College, 1962. First edition. Two volumes. Poems commissioned for the Poetry Festival held June 21-24, 1962. Dedicated to the memory of Dag Hammarskjold and "The Cause of World Peace." 8.5 x 11"; 16 pp; stapled into white covers printed in orange and..... Item #55683 More
Grants Pass, Oregon: Castle Peak Editions, 1992. First edition, the simultaneous paperwraps issue of which there were only 200 copies. (An additional 100 copies were issued in hardcover.) Quarto glossy white, illustrated, perfect-bound paperwraps printed in blue. 441 pages, including index. Essays, poems and reminiscences by friends, scholars, and fellow..... Item #55770 More
Santa Rosa, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1997-2000. First edition thus of each of the three volumes, with material not in earlier editions. Two of the volumes are one of 100 numbered deluxe copies and one is the hardback trade issue, of which there were only 300 copies. (There were also..... Item #55687 More
New York: Doubleday, 1967. First edition. Winner of the Commonwealth Club of California's Silver Medal for the best book of poetry in 1967. INSCRIBED BY ANTONINUS to Ray and Chris Howe and with AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED to Ray Howe laid in. Eighteen lines on single sheet of Dominican Priory stationery..... Item #55686 More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First edition. Deluxe issue. Number 36 of 50 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON beneath the colophon at rear and with SIGNED HOLOGRAPH POEM tipped in following the title page. (There were also 250 signed, numbered copies in slightly different binding without the holograph poem..... Item #55698 More
Berkeley, CA: Oyez, 1980. First edition, in dust jacket. Light brown cloth with gold lettering. One of 500 copies. SIGNED. Item #55695 More
(Torrance, CA): Labyrinth Editions, 1980. First edition. A stunningly beautiful production. Selected for inclusion in surveys of fine contemporary press work by the Library of Congress as well as the Grolier Club. Number 94 of 250 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON & KILLION who provides the five superb dark blue linoleum..... Item #55584 More
New York: Viking Press, 1982. First edition, trade issue. SIGNED BY EVERSON. Preceded by the 1981 limited edition published by Everson and his Lime Kiln Press. Fine in fine dust jacket with faint sticker shadow on front flap. Item #55685 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
Berkeley: Oyez, 1967. First edition, limited issue. Number 158 of 200 numbered copies SIGNED BY EVERSON. Slender quarto maroon cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt and blocked in black; illustrated with single woodcut by poet and illustrator Mary Fabilli (she and Everson were married from 1948 to 1951). This..... Item #55674 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 – 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
(San Rafael: Pacific Sun, 1970). First edition. Presumed offprint from the "Year 8, Number 41" issue. Starts on "Page 4" but with masthead present and, although the newspaper would seem to have been a free one, a printed price of "10 cents." Folio-sized bifolium (single leaf folded once to make..... Item #71941 More
Waldport, Oregon: Untide Press, 1944. First edition. Collection of eleven poems reflecting the poet's pacifist philosophy, the last one written “in 1943 shortly after my induction into a camp for conscientious objectors here on the Oregon coast.” This version published November 1944 in an edition of 975 copies. Preceded by..... 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
Santa Cruz: Peter and Donna Thomas, 2012. First edition. Number 3 of only 50 numbered copies. Printed for the Tor House Foundation in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Jeffers' death. 10.5 x 15" poetry broadside printed in black and red on heavy cream paper; illustrated with Killion's woodcut, "Tor..... Item #72109 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
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". Near fine with..... Item #55871 More