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Everson William. Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1990.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Description: Fine in acetate jacket - number 16 of 150 signed by Everson. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 045272.

Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.

Everson, William. The Engendering Flood. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1990.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Fine hardcover in Fine dust jacket. Limited issue: 5 of 150 numbered copies signed by author.

Seller: Pulpfiction Books, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Everson, William. The Engendering Flood (signed). Black Sparrow Pr, Santa Rosa, California, 1990.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Book is As New, unmarked and unread. limited to 150 copies the is copy 81/150. The Engendering Flood is book one if Dust Shall Be The Serpent's food, an autobiographical epic poem. It consists of four cantos . The first canto is called " In Medias Res or in the midst of things, a low point in the hero's life. for Everson it begun after WWII with the death of his father. Cantos 2,3, and 4 continue the epic. Book two, will begin with Everson's personal odyssey. Bill Everson (1912-1984) also known as Brother Antoninus was a literary critic, teacher and small press printer. Book is a scarce collectible. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 1st Printing

Seller: Oshtemo Book Sellers, Chester, NY, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William. THE ENGENDERING FLOOD. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1990.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: In Fine publisher's original unprinted glassine dustjacket. One of 150 numbered copies, all signed by the poet.

Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. The Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food (Cantos I-IV).. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1990.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Description: 69 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 150 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson. This is copy #1.

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

Everson, William. THE ENGENDERING FLOOD. Book One of Dust Shall Be The Serpent's Food. (Cantos I-IV). Santa Rosa:Black Sparrow Press, 1990.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Santa Rosa:Black Sparrow Press. 1990. 69pp. One of 150 copies, numbered (79) on the colophon page and signed by the author on the page following title page. In very good, clean condition with just the slightest bit of soiling to top page edges.  Both book and acetate jacket are in very good, clean condition.

Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.

Everson, William. THE ENGENDERING FLOOD: Book One of Dust Shall Be The Serpent's Food (Cantos I-IV). Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, 1990.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Signed limited edition, an out of series copy, of these four cantos by Everson: "In Medias Res," "Skald," "Hidden Life," and "The Hollow Years," the latter two of which were published here for the first time. This limited edition simultaneous with the trade paperback edition of 300 copies. A handsome publication by Black Sparrow, with whom Everson was increasingly associated toward the end of his career. 9'' x 6''. Quarter patterned cloth over printed boards. Printer's copy of this limited-run edition. Includes an original signed broadside poem by Everson tipped in, and additionally Signed by Everson to blank leaf after copyright. Out of 150 hardcover copies, signed and numbered, 50 included the broadside; this copy out-of-series. Clean, sharp overall. 69, [5] pages.

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

EVERSON, William. THE ENGENDERING FLOOD. , 1990.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Description: EVERSON, William. THE ENGENDERING FLOOD. Book One of "Dust Shall Be The Serpent's Food," Cantos I-IV. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. Small quarto: patterned cloth & printed boards in acetate dust jacket. Signed, Limited Edition of 50 numbered copies, each with a broadside poem tipped into the front, also signed by Everson. Fine. $85.00.

Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.

Everson, William. The Engendering Flood. Black Sparrow, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A., 1990.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Contained in a mylar slipcover to prevent wear to covers. Very nice looking. Overall a very clean copy, inside and out. Solid binding. #22 of 50 copies, signed and with broadside intact. Book one of Dust Shall Be in the Serpent's Food.

Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.

Everson, William. The Engendering Floor: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food (Cantos I-Iv). Santa Rosa, California Black Sparrow Press 1990, 1990.

Price: US$113.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 1st Edition. 69pp. Royal Octavo. Patterned cloth spine with a paper label; illustrated paper covered boards. Teal endpapers. In clear Mylar jacket, as issued. One of the 50 signed, limited editions with the signed broadside intact--this copy is #14. Internally clean and binding tight; overall, a near fine copy. near fine An attractively bound, rare edition of this book. This is one of the 50 numbered copies with an original broadside poem printed by William Everson on handmade paper at the Kingfisher Press, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and signed by Everson on the both the broadside and on the fly title page.

Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada

William Everson. The Engendering Flood. Black Sparrow Press, 1990.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The Engendering Flood: Book One of And Dust Shall be the Serpent s Food Cantos I-IV, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. #19/50. Includes a broadside of the final verse of the poem, sewn into the binding at flyleaf, signed by Everson, with linocut illustration by Tom Killion. Handbound in quarter cloth by Earle Grey.

Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. The Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food (Cantos I-IV).. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1990.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: 69 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Very near fine acetate dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson with a tipped-in broadside featuring a linocut illustration by Tom Killion, that is also SIGNED by Everson. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue.

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

EVERSON, William.. The Engendering Flood.. Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1990., 1990.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. 8vo. Folding frontispiece broadside by Tom Killion, signed by Everson. Original 1/2 patterned cloth over tan printed boards; dark blue/green endpapers. Acetate dust jacket. Fine, fresh, as new copy. No other signatures or bookplates. #34/50 numbered copies signed again by Everson on the leaf after half title page in black ink.

Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.

EVERSON, William.. The Engendering Flood: Book One of Dust Shall Be the Serpent's Food (Cantos I-IV).. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow,, 1990.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: 69 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and cloth spine with printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Everson. As in the deluxe issue of this title, there is broadside with a linocut illustration by Tom Killion, SIGNED by Everson, tipped in before the title page.

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