William Everson Afterword (5 results)

Paperback. 329p., preliminaries, forewords, epilogue, afterword, notes, very good first trade paperback edition in lightly-soiled and worn decorative wraps. Posthumous publication of the book the poet wrote as Brother Antoninus in the early 1950s and which remained unpublished until after his death.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In very good condition; faint scuffing to wraps; short diagonal crease with paper surface splitting outside corners front cover; light toning to wraps; light soiling outside edges of book; former owner's name in ink top of initial title page; light toning to otherwise clean interior; binding tight; slight vertical creasing top of spine. 407 numbered pages. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.…

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp. 325 + 6 (author photo, bios & colophon). Covers a little soiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. A Fine Copy Of The First Printing Of The 1998 Expanded Edition In Trade Paperback, Simultaneous With Hardcover Issues And Used As An Advance Copy, With Publisher's Printed Label "Advance Copy / Please Use In Lieu Of Galley / Advance Copy".…

First Edition. First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black morocco leather and cloth over boards; gilt stamped spine titling. Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery, printed on hand-made English Tovil paper using an 1830 Acorn handpress and Weiss Roman and Italic typeface. The collector Allen K. Mears notes that Clough's first name is misspelled on the colophon. Two states of the prospectus laid in: one on the same paper and with same typeset as the published edition and 2 copies of a smaller one regularly printed on a thinner tan paper. Book and prospectuses fine. Signed.…