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EVERSON, William. River-root: A Syzygy for the Bicentenial of These States. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$11.37 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 45pp. ILlustrated throughout with black and white drawings. Some sheflwear, otherwise fine.

Seller: Apollinaire's Bookshoppe, Toronto, ON, Canada

Everson, William. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$12.10 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 4to, 45 pp., line illustrations. Wrappers sunned, lightly soiled and stained, fore-edge lightly bumped at head and heel, bottom edge stain.

Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Everson, William. River-Root A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$19.50 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Very Good minus with creasing to top corner of front cover, pages unmarked. Poetry; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages

Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.. Berkeley: Oyez,, 1976.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: 45 pp. Near fine in printed wrappers. Foreword by Everson, illustrations by Patrick Kennedy.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

EVERSON, WILLIAM (BROTHER ANTONINUS). RIVER-ROOT A SYZYGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES. OYEZ Pub 1976 tp &verso, Berkeley, CA, 1976.

Price: US$22.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: VERY GOOD Condition .clean, solid, bright.; black spine & cover titles on light tan paper covers.square spine.Bright Red ff endpaper.includes hand made bookmark from "Small Press Books: A Store" . includes foreword.& quote from Walt Whitman. ; LOVERS EMBRACE DRAWING Cover Art; 45pg thin pages; .a powerful narrative poem.archetypal union of the sexual act.

Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William.. River-Root. A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.. Berkeley, Calif.: Oyez., 1976.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: In stiff pictorial wrappers, tan with black lettering, rust line drawing. 8vo. 8 x 9-7/8 inches. 45 pp. First trade printing (a numbered, signed edition preceded this). Long narrative poem, written in 1957 when the poet, known then as Brother Antoninus, served in a monastery. Includes a foreword by Everson; illustrated by Patrick Kennedy. As new, appears unread.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William.. River-Root A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. [With a Photograph of Brother Antoninus}. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Sq. 8vo; illustrated tan wrappers. Illustrations by Patrick Kennedy. Included is an 8x10" photograph of Everson as Brother Antoninus by V. Kriz. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 45 pages

Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William. RIVER-ROOT, A SYZGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES ]SIGNED]. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First trade printing. Stiff tan pictorial wrappers with black lettering and red line drawing. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by William Everson. A crisp, fine copy. See photos.

Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.. [Berkeley]: Oyez, 1976., 1976.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Description: Small 4to. Softbound. First edition. Nicely inscribed by Everson: To Matt & Deane, / Stinson Beach neighbors / year-long friends / Bill / Dec. 1976." Small tear to top of spine, else near fine.

Seller: Skyline Books, Forest Knolls, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William (Brother Antonius). RIVER-ROOT: A SYZYGY FOR THE BICENTENNIAL OF THESE STATES (SIGNED). Oyez, Berkeley, Ca, 1976.

Price: US$44.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Permabound, Tan card covers, 9 3/4 in. x 8 in. Very light thumbing. Signed on title page. "A powerful narrative oem exploring the archetypal union of the sexual act. Situated on the Mississippi as a symbol of the American earth and the American mood, it narrates the ordeal of two lovers who, in the course of a single night, overcome the impasse that initially divides them, consummate their love in the extremes of physical passion, and arise at dawn refreshed, restored, at one with themselves and their world." (rear panel).

Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.

Everson, William; Serendipity Books; Patrick Kennedy (ill.).. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.. Berkeley, CA: Oyez., 1976.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: PROSPECTUS. 4to. 4 pp., Letterpress on Deckled Laid Rag, French-Fold Sheets, Very Good with minor creasing. Illustrated.

Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

William Everson and Patrick Kennedy (illustrator). River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez Press, Berkeley, CA, 1976.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Paperback. First Printing. Signed in ink (without dedication) on blank page prior to the title page. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding square, without stress creases and tight. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed.

Seller: Tree Frog Fine Books and Graphic Arts, Beaverton, OR, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. River-Root/ A Syzygy. Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Hardcover. Limited edition. A fine copy. Quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards. One of 200 copies signed by the poet. This is #17. Illustrations by Patrick Kennedy and designed by Thomas Whitridge.

Seller: Sawtooth Books, ABAA, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.

Everson, William. River-Root / A Syzygy. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Limited to 250 SIGNED copies in oversized boards. A clean near fine example. Signed by Author.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States.. Berkeley: Oyez,, 1976.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: 4to. 51 pp w/afterword. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped leather spine. Designed by Thomas Whitridge and printed at The Watsonville Press. One of 200 (of 250) numbered copies SIGNED by Everson.

Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William; Illustrations by Patrick Kennedy. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: #32 of 250 copies, 200 of which were for sale. SIGNED BY AUTHOR at colophon page. Book desoigned by Thomas Whitridge, has been printed at The Watsonville Press. Types used are Goudy Modern and Spectrum Italis, cast by Mackenzie & Harris of San Francisco. Binding by Cardoza-James of the same city. Fine in original paper covered boards with gilt stamped leather spine. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall

Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. River-Root; A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of these States.. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First trade edition. Quarto. Inscribed by Everson to Mildred and John and dated 1977. 45, [1] pp. with illustration by Patrick Kennedy. Publisher's tan wrappers with cover lettering in black and cover illustration in red. Remnant of a crease to lower rear wrapper. Else, a very good copy

Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Everson, William. RIVER-ROOT: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of these States; [Three volumes]. Oyez Press, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Poetry collection. Number 102 of 250 SIGNED numbered copies (of which 200 were for sale). 4to quarter leather with decorated paper-covered boards and gilt-lettered spine; illustrated with erotic line drawings by Patrick Kennedy. TOGETHER WITH a copy of the softcover trade issue (one of 1000) and of the revised and expanded edition published in 1990 by Broken Moon Press, Seattle (white paperwraps in glossy pictorial dust jacket). All three volumes in fine condition with barest wear.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Everson, William. River-Root. Berkeley: Oyez Press, 1976.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Sm. 4to., cream printed wrappers. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by Everson to Robert O'Clair, editor of the "Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry." O'Clair had included three of Everson's poems in his landmark anthology. A compelling presentation copy.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Everson, William. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. [Berkeley] Oyez 1976., 1976.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: Fine. One of 200 copies, signed by the author, out of a total edition of 250 copies. Designed by Thomas Whitridge. 1st edition. Binding is 1/4 morocco.

Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. RIVER-ROOT: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Inscribed first printing with a wonderful association between Everson and Walter Lowenfels, two prominent American poets of the left. Wraps. 4to. Stiff pictorial wraps. Fine. INSCRIBED by Everson to fellow poet Walter Lowenfels: "To Walter Lowenfels / in the Whitmanian mode [?] / William Everson." 45pp.

Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. River-Root; A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of these States.. Oyez, Berkeley, 1976.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by the poet. Folio. 50, [4] pp. Illustrated by Patrick Kennedy. Publisher's quarter morocco over gray boards with a Kennedy line drawing in orange, gilt spine lettering. A couple of very unnoticeable fingernail marks to leather, else and excellent copy.

Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. River-Root: A Syzygy for the Bicentennial of These States. Oyez, (Berkeley, California), 1976.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First trade edition. Illustrated by Patrick Kennedy. Small quarto. Wrappers. Topedge foxed, modest wear, very good. Inscribed to Malcolm Cowley: "To Malcolm Cowley / best wishes / William Everson / Oct 10, 1980. Kingfisher Flat." Cowley was a poet and literary critic, and chronicler of the the so-called "Lost Generation" of American expatriates in Paris. While probably best known for his book of poetry *Blue Juniata*, his most important work was probably his editing of the *Viking Portable Library,* where his selections, criticism, and popularization of those American authors whose reputations and fortunes had suffered between the Wars. A nice association.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.