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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$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.