Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Single sheet of creme paper folded once to 14 1/4 by 10 1/4 inches, printed in blue and black and with a woodcut by Tom Killion. Soft fold for mailing, else a fine copy.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Everson, William. PROSPECTUS FOR: In Medias Res: Canto One. Adrian Wilson, San Francisco, 1984.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Single sheet heavyweight, hand-made, laid paper, folded once to create 4 pages, of which the second page is blank. 36 cm. Tall Folio. Hand press printing in three colors, black, brown, and turquoise. Prospectus by publisher Adrian Wilson announcing the upcoming release and availability to order of William Everson's "In Media Res: Canto one of an Autobiographical Epic" in December of 1984; as a limited edition of 200 copies and selling for $300. Prospectus is designed by Adrian Wilson, with a fantastic woodcut by Tom Killion, (the roles of each of these contributors to the upcoming book-Adrian Wilson, designer and Tom Killion, illustrator). A gorgeous piece. Includes Publisher's Order Form laid-in (which also mentions 3 additional Adrian Wilson titles for sale). Condition: Folded once in middle else fine.
Seller: DuBois Rare Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One folded sheet advertising a new Everson book. 20 x 14 inches when unfolded. Order form loosely inserted. Very good, with creases from folding, unmailed. This is an advertisement for a book, not the book itself.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. One of 226 numbered copies, signed by the author, illustrator and printer. Folio. 24, [1, colophon], [1] pp. Publisher's quarter blue morocco over gray cloth, gilt spine lettering. morocco inset on front cover bearing the Worm Ouroboros in gilt. Aside from some sunning to sun to spine, a lovely copy.Everson's last book.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. 24 pp w/note. Fine in cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine (lightly sunned). Foreword by Everson. Woodcuts by Tom Killion. One of 200 numbered copies on Barcham Green & Company handmade paper SIGNED by Everson, Killion, and Wilson. Original prospectus accompanies.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: San Francisco: Adrian Wilson, 1984. Folio. Hardcover with a slipcase. Inscribed by Everson on the half title page and signed by Tom Killion, Adrian Wilson, and Everson on the colophon page. This is copy 200 out of 226 that were printed at The Press in San Francisco. Quarter blue leather boards with a leather inlay over the linen boards. Gilt lettering on the spine and a gilt design on the leather inlay. Book is in near fine condition with slight sunning to the spine. Slipcase is very good with a couple of marks and a bit of rubbing along the edges. Prospectus not included. A handsome copy of this gorgeous California fine press book. "And Suddenly, / There on the tall steps, above the sea of faces, / Friends and townspeople, my mind / Swept out beyond the city limit / To the little cemetery, the plot where / Redolent in the earth, my mother lay buried, and beside her / The naked hole that would take down my father, / Darkly glowing, a subsumed luster, / Numinous with the haunting infusion of death."
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Foreword by the Author. Woodcuts by Tom Killion. Folio. Quarter blue morocco gilt with morocco gilt onlay on front board. Fine. One of 226 numbered copies Signed by William Everson, Tom Killion, and Adrian Wilson; this copy is not numbered. Nicely printed on Barcham Green handmade paper; bound by Schuberth Bookbindery.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
William Everson. In Medias Res. Adrian Wilson, 1984.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Oversized. Illustrated by Tom Killion. Printed by Adrian Wilson. Limited to 226cc, signed by Everson, Killion and Wilson. Green leather spine sunned.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 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, KILLION, and WILSON. Together with ENGENDERING FLOOD which restarts the planned "Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food" series. It's been designated "Book One," includes "In Medias Res," and adds 3 more Cantos to what Everson surely planned to be a much longer narrative. Published by Black Sparrow in 1990. Number 26 of 50 specially bound copies SIGNED BY EVERSON on folding broadside print bound in at front. Both books are fine with only minor wear. Original prospectus laid in first volume. Second volume includes the original acetate.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio, blue quarter-morocco, gray cloth, gilt ouroboros on a panel of blue calf on the front cover; spine lettered in gilt. Frontispiece and one woodcut (the ouroboros). A fine copy. Printed on English handmade paper, bound by The Schuberth Bookbinder, San Francisco. This is one of 226 copies signed by Everson, Killion, and Wilson; this copy out-of-series, not numbered.
Seller: William Matthews/The Haunted Bookshop, Sidney, BC, Canada
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Printed on handmade Barcham Green paper, with a jester watermark, specially designed for Adrian Wilson. A beautiful production. Large folio. [26] pp. Quarter turquoise morocco over natural linen boards. A fine copy. One of 226 copies, signed by Everson, Killion & Adrian Wilson.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.