Jonathan Williams Poet by Davenport Guy (15 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. 1st PB Edition. This copy is VG; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked, binding is tight; First PB edition, unstated but earliest appearance of book. The covers are near fine: absolutely intact , including excellent color and design, but some wear marks on spine and white on front and rear turning ivory. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate. We guarantee: NO NASTY SURPRISES.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Thin octavo. 6 x 9 in. [9 pp.] Fine in original blue stapled wrappers and fine pictorial dust jacket. Cover is a reproduction of a 1967 portrait of Williams standing in Gethsemani, Kentucky by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Originally published as an introduction to An Ear in Bartram's Tree, this edition was published on the occasion of Williams's 40th birday.

First edition. [16 pp]. Faint foxing to first leaf, else fine in stapled wrappers and printed dust jacket. Published by the Asphodel on the occasion of Williams' 40th birthday.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Blue stapled card-wraps and wraparound jacket, just a bit rubbed on back panel. Cover photo courtesy of Meatyard. Unpaginated [16pp]. Asphodel order form laid in.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Wraps, fine with a little toning at edges.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall (5 x 9" or 13.5 x 22.5cm); 16 pp.

Condition: Very Good. Softcover with Pictorial Dust Jacket. Contains portrait of Jonathan Williams by Guy Davenport.

Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. First Thus. First separate appearance, and an early Davenport title. Published on the occasion of poet and publisher Williams's 40th birthday, and to celebrate the publication by University of North Carolina Press of his selected poems, An Ear in Bartram's Tree. This essay serves as the introduction to that volume, and is here accompanied by a portrait drawing by Davenport, and a photographic portrait by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Lightly rumpled and rubbed, but a nice copy nonetheless. 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. Asphodel Book Shop Cleveland, OH 1969.

FINE IN WRAPS WITH NEAR FINE STIFF PAPER D.J. FRONTISPIECE DRAWING BY GUY DAVENPORT / FIRST SEPARATE PUBLICATION D.J. HAS A SHORT BARELY VISIBLE TEAR AT THE SPINE HEEL BUT IS OTHERWISE A BEAUTIFUL COPY WITH RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD'S PHOTOGRAPH OF JONATHAN WILLIAMS AT GETHSEMANI, KENTUCKY IN NOVEMBER 1967 ON THE FRONT PANEL. FIRST EDITION. Binding is PAPERBACK.

First edn. 8vo, pp. 9. Paper wraps. Cover slightly stained, o/w VG. An essay in tribute to Williams.

Wraps. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A softcover edition, with dustjacket; about 12 pages. An essay on the aesthetic, character, and work of Jonathan Williams, Black Mountain College alum and the founder of the small press The Jargon Society, among other things. Scholar Guy Davenport constructs an image of Williams from rhetoric that is half prose, half academic study. This copy inscribed by Jonathan Williams, which reads: "For George and Eudice Salut from Jonathan Aspen 1969". This work was published on the occasion of the poet's 40th birthday. Eudice is Eudice Shapiro, who was a famous violinist, music teacher, and recording artist. George is her husband George Kast, who was also a violist and music teacher, among other things. Eudice was attended the Aspen, Colorado Music Festival for many years. This work is quite scarce in any condition. Signed copies rarely offered; and a unique association copy. Jonathan Williams (March 8, 1929 - March 16, 2008) was an American poet, publisher, essayist, and photographer. He is known as the founder of The Jargon Society, which has published poetry, experimental fiction, photography, and folk art since 1951.Williams was also a longtime contributing editor of the photography journal Aperture. Signed by Significant Other.

First edition. [16 pp]. Staples rusty, else near fine in very good plus dust jacket that is lightly rubbed. Dated (Aspen / 1969) and INSCRIBED by Williams, "this is for / Arnold / for / remaining / literate - / i.e., / using his ear / like a camera / from / the / Thyrsus Bearer / salut!.".

Original wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. 10p octao, frontispiece by Davenport. A fine copy in blue wraps in a fine tan, brown and blue printed dust jacket. Signed by Jonathan Williams on the title page.

Original wraps. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 10p octavo frontispiece by Guy Davenport. A fine copy in blue wraps in a tan, brown and blue printed dust jacket. Signed by Jonathan Williams in 1980 and by Davenport in 1983.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. Near fine in blue wrappers with lightly bumped corners and oxidation to the staples in near fine dust jacket with miniscule oxidation mark from the staple and corresponding bumping. Signed on the first page by Guy Davenport and Jonathan Williams.