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William Everson. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, brown softcover wrappers, 92pp. First trade edition, issued simultaneously in hardcover. Inscribed by Everson to the title page. Includes a tipped in leaflet from the Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, supplemental material for a lecture by the poet sponsored by the club. A few nicks of apparent silverfishing to lower edge of front wrap, minor rubbing to covers. Firmly bound with clean text, a handsome copy.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
William Everson. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inscribed by author. Binding is tight. Light foxing on top and fore edges of text block, visible on the edges of some pages, but not covering text. Text is clean and unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. The Masks Of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Price: US$43.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. Bound in the publisher's original quarter red brown corduroy and tan boards with a paper label on the spine stamped in black and orange and the front cover stamped in black, orange, and white and in an acetate dust jacket. Designed by Barbara Martin.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William.. The Masks of Drought.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 92 pp w/author's note. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. The Masks of Drought (Signed). Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 92 pp. A book of poems. A fine copy in clear acetate wrapper. Number 157 of 250 hardcover copies numbered and SIGNED.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Everson, William. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980.
Price: US$45.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, #15 of 250 numbered and signed copies. Fine in acetate jacket as issued. 1st Printing 1st Printing
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William.. THE MASKS OF DROUGHT.. Black Sparrow Press: Santa Barbara., 1980.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: 9.25 x 6.25, corduroy backed boards, 92 pp, vg in rubbed acetate dw. ONE OF 250 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY EVERSON.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Everson, William. THE MASKS OF DROUGHT. Santa Barbara:Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Santa Barbara:Black Sparrow Press. 1980. 92pp. Hardcover with acetate dust wrapper. One of 250 copies, numbered (#250) and signed on the colophon page. In fine condition.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William. THE MASKS OF DROUGHT. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 250 numbered copies signed by the poet.
Seller: Euclid Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, half boards. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. Limited First Edition One of 250 signed copies. A fine copy.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Everson, William. Masks of Drought. , 1980.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1980 First Edition Hardcover Fine/No Dust Jacket Black Sparrow Press, Pub, Santa Barbara, CA, 1980; 1st edition; limited to 250 copies and signed by the Author; very fine condition; bound in 1/2 cloth and illustrated paper over hard boards; William Everson; Modern First Editions Signed by Author
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, 1980.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Brown cloth spine and tan paper over boards. 92pp. Fine. Autographed by Everson. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this #82) signed by Everson. Uncommon.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Poems. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. 97 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine hardcover copy in a fine unprinted acetate with a corduroy cloth spine. This is copy 11 of 250 hardcovers signed and numbered by Everson.
Seller: Downtown Brown Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William.. The Masks of Drought.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 92 pp w/author's note. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Very near fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Everson with a twelve line holograph poem tipped-in after the title page.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William.. THE MASKS OF DROUGHT.. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1980., 1980.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED WITH A HOLOGRAPH POEM BY WILLIAM EVERSON. - Octavo, tan boards backed with decorative cloth titled in orange & black on the front board with a printed label on the spine, in an acetate dust wrapper. 92 & [5] pages. Fine. No. 10 of 50 numbered copies signed by the author on the colophon with a holograph poem penned on the blank following the copyright page [Extract from "Kingfisher Flat"]. Printed by Mackintosh & Young. Design by Barbara Martin. Handbound in boards by Earle Gray.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
EVERSON, William.. The Masks of Drought.. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow,, 1980.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 92 pp w/author's note. Foxing along top edges else near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine acetate dust jacket. Designated "Publisher's Copy" on the colophon page and SIGNED by Everson.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. The masks of drought. Black Sparrow Press, 1980.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tall 8vo. 92, [5] pages. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Everson (as 'William Everson') on limitation page; with additional signature ('Bill Everson') in brown ink on dedication page. Slight rubbing to jacket; else a near fine copy in publisher's clear mylar protective jacket.Knight, John (photographer); 1 b/w Photograph (portrait).
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Everson, William. The Masks of Drought. Black Sparrow Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1980.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 92, [6], Photo. The book contains 19 poems written by William Everson, on topics including Storm-Surge, Blackbird Sundown, Rattlesnake August, The Visitation, Bride of the Bear, Buck Fever, The Summer of Fire, The High Embrace, and Spikehorn. William "Bill" Everson (September 10, 1912 - June 3, 1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and was also a literary critic, teacher and small press printer. Everson was an influential member of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry and worked closely with Kenneth Rexroth during this period of his life. Throughout his life, Everson was a great admirer of the work and lifestyle of poet Robinson Jeffers. Everson registered as an anarchist and a pacifist with his draft board, in compliance with the 1940 draft bill. In 1943, he was sent to a Civilian Public Service (CPS) work camp for conscientious objectors in Oregon. In Camp Angel at Waldport, Oregon, with other poets, artists and actors such as Kemper Nomland, William Eshelman, Kermit Sheets, Glen Coffield, George Woodcock and Kenneth Patchen, he founded a fine-arts program. During his time as a conscientious objector, Everson completed The Residual Years, a volume of poems that launched him to national fame. The author's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1949, a Pulitzer nomination in 1959, the Commonwealth Club of California's Silver Medal in 1967, the Shelley Memorial Award in 1978, and the Book of the Year Award of the Conference on Christianity and Literature, an affiliate of the Modern Language Association, also in 1978. In "Kingfisher Flat", perhaps the key poem of the series, the figures of Merlin and Niniane are drawn from Arthurian legend, but rather than following the version of Mallory or that of Tennyson, both of which depict the sage ensorcelled by a vixen, the author has utilized the reflections of Heinrich Zimmer in The King and the Corpse, who saw the pair in terms of the archetypal attraction between Wisdom and Folly, and so have retained the usage employed there. California is burning!" The searing drought of 1976-77 is the backdrop to this poem cycle. Famine marked on a calendar of feasts humbles human, plant, and beast between twin tensions (loss and menace), twin attractions (desire and death). In an "invasion of awe" before the inexorable "vulturine horde," Everson witnesses a wildfire of tooth, claw, and "accidental" holocaust. The graceful, the innocent, the vicious, or the strong---All are prey: "We think of the snake./ lurking, the vibration of evil, / Coiling." Which is mask? Which is real? The evil coiled and ready? Or the "flush and shimmering splendor of life?" Everson's lyrics envision the contradictions, losing none of the beauty, dread, or demonic power and vengeance. Everson is also known as Brother Antonius. Book number 71 of 250 hardcover Limited Edition copies signed by the author.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.