Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$16.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NEAR FINE / NEAR FINE. FIRST EDITION. 1 of 1000 copies. Signed by former non-library owner on the first end papers, otherwise clean throughout with tight binding, including hinges. First end papers paper only split 1" at spine hinge and a few spots along the hinge. Purchase supports the programs, operations and collections and collections preservation of the renowned Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Laboratory of Anthropology Library.
Seller: MIAC-LOA Library, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William.. Single Source.. Berkeley: Oyez (1966)., 1966.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 105 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to front cover. Introduction by Robert Duncan.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Oyez; William Everson.. Single Source.. Berkeley, CA.: Oyez., 1966.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: PROSPECTUS. 16mo. Printing On Fine Card Stock, Very Good, minor creasing at corners. Includes blurb by Robert Duncan.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$38.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 975 copies (of 1000), this being the first state with 'language' misspelled on p. ix. 8vo. Quarter dark brown cloth gilt and three-quarter pictorial light brown paper-covered boards. xiv, 108pp. 'With this collection, for the first time the three earliest works of William Everson are being made generally available; the individual books were printed in small editions and were not actively distributed. Only a small percentage of the work in this volume is included in "The Residual Years", the author's cumulative edition of his work published in 1948 by New Directions.' Spotting to the head edge and pastedowns/endpapers, the jacket slightly rubbed with tiny, unobtrusive chips at the spine ends, the lower panel somewhat marked, and with areas of spotting such as to the lower flap, but about Very Good overall. This copy has the ownership inscription of Andrew Crozier.
Seller: Test Centre Books, Norwich, United Kingdom
EVERSON, William. Single Source: The Early Poems of William Everson. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Fine in a slightly rubbed near fine dustwrapper with one inch tear and crease on spine head. One of 1000 copies. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 105 pp. Pages toned, else very good plus in like dust jacket that is rubbed and lightly edge worn. Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of 1000 copies.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. Single Source, the Early Poems of William Everson. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rerview copy limited to 1000 copies. The front pastedown and ffep have an area of brown staining which appears to be due to bleed through from the binding.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Bottom corner a little bumped else fine in a slightly rubbed, still fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 copies. A very attractive copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Everson, William. Single Source: the Early Poems [1934-1940]. Oyez, Berkeley, CA, 1966.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Fine; hardback
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark brown cloth and decorated light brown boards. Second issue with "Language" corrected on page ix. Limited to 1000 copies. Signed, without inscription, by Everson to the half title page. There is a note in pencil to this same page that states, "Signed at Black Oak Books, Berkeley, 9/28/88". Some foxing to the upper page edges. Some minimal foxing to the fore edge pages. All else is quite tight and unmarked. The dust jacket has some minor wear but no tears. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Scott Emerson Books, ABAA, El Cajon, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1000 copies (of which 25 were specially bound and signed), this being the trade issue. A Fine copy in chocolate brown cloth over adobe brown paper covered boards, in dark brown and white dustwrapper. 105pp. Includes publisher's original prospectus for the edition. Text and endpapers immaculate. Q12296
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardbound 8vo in dustwrapper. 105 pp. A handsome near fine copy in two-tone brown boards in very good printed paper dustwrapper. This copy comes from the library of fellow poet Kenneth Irby who has signed his name on the front pastedown and indicated that he acquired this book in April 1966 in San Francisco.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in very good dust jacket with some rubbing to coated brown jacket; the 1st state, not the usual second state, with "language' on p. ix printed correctly. Designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 1000 copies.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. Single Source. Oyez, Berkeley, 1966.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED, first edition of the collection of Everson's poetry. Second state, with the "language" corrected on page ix, but with a dropped letter. Faint scuffs to back panel of jacket, now in mylar. Illustrated covers are bright. Small circular blemish (perhaps a burn?) between pages 6 and 7, fading over three pages on either side. xiii, 105pp. 9.5 x 6.25"
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.80 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 105 pp. Top edge a bit dusty with one tiny spot, otherwise a Fine copy. Jacket lightly sunned, rubbed, edgeworn, with one small closed edgetear. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, one of 1000 copies, first issue with "langauge" on page ix. Introduction by Robert Duncan. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's material laid in.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardbound book with dustwrapper. 105 pp. With an introduction by Robert Duncan. First printing, first state. A handsome fine copy in lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. This copy with four separate printed pieces of related ephemera from Oyez Press for this title.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: SIGNED hardcover first edition - First printing. Includes all of the poems in three of the earliest works of Everson: These Are the Ravens (1935), San Joaquin (1939); and The Masculine Dead (1942). Introduction by Robert Duncan. One of only 1000 copies in an edition designed and printed by Graham Mackintosh. Second state with the spelling of "language" corrected on p ix. SIGNED by Everson on the title page. xii, 105 pp plus colophon. Fine in near fine dust jacket (a bit of wear to the ends of the spine dj, and the side of the spine, very short closed tear to upper edge)
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SINGLE SOURCE : The EARLY POEMS (1934-1940), by WILLIAM EVERSON (aka Brother Antoninus). Introduction by Robert Duncan. Published by Oyez, Berkeley, 1966. First Edition, FIRST STATE, with the typo "langauge" instead of "language" on page ix. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, cloth covered spine and paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, 6" x 9.5", 105 pages plus Colophon page (the last page). Limited edition, one of only 1,000 copies. From the Colophon page: "SINGLE SOURCE has been designed & printed by Graham Mackintosh in an edition of 1000 copies." Though not called for, this copy is SIGNED and INSCRIBED by BROTHER ANTONINUS to DENNIS TURNER (a San Francisco Doctor who was a Friend of Many Poets and Artists, and who was also a Fine Printer in his early days at Harvard, he died in 2013): "for Dennis / with the best wishes of / Brother Antoninus / Good Friday 1968 / Cambridge, Mass." Laid-in is the single-fold, four-panel prospectus for this book. Condition: The book has a circular blindstamp of Dennis Turner (to whom Brother Antoninus inscribed this book) on the title page, and a bookseller's label at the bottom of the front pastedown (Grolier Book Shop / Cambridge); otherwise a NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, sharp cornered, and clean; in a GOOD MINUS dustjacket with scrapes, edge wear, a pea-size hole, a couple 1" closed tears, and some rubbing and soiling. SCARCE INSCRIBED COPY with FIRST STATE POINT.
Seller: Blank Verso Books, Napa, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 25 numbered copies signed by the author. Hardcover, hand bound in leather backed boards with a dust jacket. The jacket with light edge-wear.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.