Everson William Preface (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited First Edition. Inscribed on half-title page nu author Budd Boetticher to Nick Beck, who is credited on copyright page for his assistance in producing the book. Dr. Beck was a university journalism professor who had an interest both in cinema and bullfighting. Contributors actor Robert Stack, Barnaby Conrad (bullfighting expert, Bill Krohn and William K. Everson all have inscribed the book to Nick adjacent to their contributions. Conrad has also added a pen sketch of a bull's head to the page he inscribed. Near fine, tight copy in fine dust jacket. 398 pages. This is the trade first edition, limited to 1000 copies. Autobiography of the noted film director and bullfighting enthusiast. Laid in are some related newspaper clippings and a one page flyer for a "Boetticher tribute at the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Faint spotting to cream boards, with grey spine, red and black lettering. Cellophane jacket. internally pristine.

First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; 277pp. Inscribed by editor on front endpaper: "For Janet & Nathaniel, with best wishes on your move (shhh!!!) to Santa Fe / Lee Bartlett Aug. 5, 1983". From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024) with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good+. Collection of Everson's forewords and afterwords, including those from "These Are the Ravens", "River-Root", "Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury", and "Cawdor / Medea". [89264]. Signed. …