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First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm); pictorial card wrappers; unpaged; illus. Sunning to spine, light wear to extremities; Very Good+. Tribute issue produced on the occasion of Williams's 50th birthday, the contributions gathered by Thomas A. Clark, David Wilk, and Jonathan Greene. Contents include a checklist of Williams's work, a checklist of Jargon Society titles published through 1979, and contributions by a who's-who of Jargon authors and poets. From the collection Herb Leibowitz, literary critic and long-time editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review. 7816.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 140 pages. Published in 2011. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was sold to the public. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by Adam Holtzman: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of late-modern and contemporary American art photography. Text by various contributors. Interview with Jonathan Williams' partner, the brilliant poet Thomas Meyer. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago in 2011. Presents "Eye/Object: Photographs From The Collection of Jonathan Williams". Whose guiding light is Ralph Eugene Meatyard and which collection is primarily devoted to American Surrealism. A modern Renaissance Man, Williams was an essayist, Classical music lover, poet, and free spirit whose identification with photography was pioneering and prescient: He rightly saw the medium itself and collecting it as a Surrealist enterprise. Many of the photographs he eventually collected were used by the Jargon Society for its publications, starting with Ralph Eugene Meatyard (whose "The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater" was first published by the Jargon Society) as well as Lyle Bonge, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Clarence John Laughlin, John Menapace, Art Sinsabaugh, Aaron Siskind, Frederick Sommer, Mark Steinmetz, and Arthur Tress, among others. An absolute "must-have" title for art photography collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. Some of the greatest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. no.…