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WILLIAM EVERSON.. San Joaquin. Poems. With an introduction by Lawrence Clark Powell.. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1939.

Price: US$845.11 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, of which only 100 copies were printed. Slim square 8vo. xiv, 38pp. Paper-covered cloth with a paper spine label, the latter a little discoloured. With a title page design by Hubert Buel, repeated on the upper and lower boards. Very good indeed. No dust wrapper called for. Thirty-six poems; the second book by the noted San Francisco Renaissance poet. Uncommon.

Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom

Everson, William. San Joaquin. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1939.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Author's rare second book. Published in an edition of 100 copies. Foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell. Cloth backed boards. Small chip from back cover and slightly rubbed at top of spine, but a nice clean copy. This copy belonged to Cas Duchow, the artist in residence at The Ward Ritchie Press and has his small, tasteful book "Caspar and Mary Duchow" on the front pastedown. 38 pages, plus colophon.

Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.

Everson, William. SAN JOAQUIN. Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1939.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: 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 of/ San Joaquin/ at Holmes Book Co in Oakland/ at the Winter Solstice/ Bill Everson/ Dec 21, 1975." Beige cloth-backed brown paper boards with four-inch illustration on front and back of grape ivy curled around a stake; brown paper spine label lettered in black. An early publication from the Ward Ritchie Press, selected as one of the best "Western Books for 1939." Title page decoration by Hubert Buel; printed throughout on cream-colored paper that appears mold made [Bartlett & Campo A-2]. Spine label shows slight darkening otherwise a fine copy of this fragile book.

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