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The Bang Book
by Thomas Meyer
Jargon 69. "A tale of the Old West & the life, death & afterlife of a badde-mann or baeddel one hundred years after the birth of the American Republic." -Thomas Meyer. Drawings by John Furnival. [48] pages. Bound in pale yellow paper wrappers with white illustrated dust jacket and acetate cover printed in silver ink. Acetate a little chipped, else fine, and signed by the author.
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$20.00
DBA at 70
by Jonathan Williams, editor
Jargon 103. A collection of well wishes, anecdotes and musings assembled by Jonathan Williams to celebrate the 70th birthday of Donald B. Anderson, "the Polymathic, Panoramic Proteus of the Pecos Valley." Bound in glossy wrappers, with polaroids by Jonathan Williams on front and back covers. Design by Jonathan Greene. [64] pages. One of 700 copies. Spine faded from light, else fine.
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$10.00
Herbert Hoover
by Burner, David
Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1996. First edition thus. Full chocolate brown leather with gilt decorations, raised bands, satin bookmark. All edges gilt. A fine copy. As new with shrink wrap.. xii, 432 pp. 8vo. Library of Presidents. Collectors edition. Note laid in.
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$55.00
The Photographs of Lyle Bongé
by Lyle Bongé, A. D. Coleman, Jonathan Williams
Jargon 89. Sixty-nine full-page black-and-white photographs (nudes, landscapes, street photography) with some writing by Bongé, introduction by A. D. Coleman, and afterword by Jonathan Williams. NEW, in publisher's mylar."I can think of few photographers--of Bongé's own generation or of those before and since--who have managed to contain successfully and simultaneously such opposite, independent lines within a continuum of imagery. One of the distinctions of Bonge's work as a whole is that these...
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$75.00
Jonathan Williams: The Lord of Orchards
by Jeffrey Beam and Richard Owens, editors
This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to Jonathan Williams' influence and talent as poet and publisher, but also heighten appreciation for the other facets of his life and art. One might call his life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest. Paperback, 469 pages. NEW.
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$30.00
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[Prospectus]: Red/Gray
by Jonathan Williams
Prospectus for Red/Gray (Jargon 3) which was published in an edition of 150 copies. This prospectus lists individuals involved (verse: Jonathan Williams; drawings: Paul Ellsworth; printing: Joel Oppenheimer's The Sad Devil Press) and directs purchasers to place orders with Dan Rice at Black Mountain College. Fine condition, never mailed, perhaps because the cuts were off—part of the final "a" in North Carolina is sliced away, and a thin line of unprinted white space remains at the top of the prospectus.
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$200.00
The Middle Passage
by Paul Metcalf
Jargon 78. Experimental fiction in three parts: Ludd, Efik and Orca, referring to three commodities: the looms that the Luddites feared, slaves, and whales. Pictorial dust jacket over stiff black paper cover. [63] pages. Slight shelf wear at edges and top of dust jacket.
"About Genoa (Jargon 43), Metcalf remarked in passing: 'I have written a wicked book, etc., etc., etc.' With The Middle Passage, we need a blurb saying: 'I have written a dark book, etc., etc.' And what a coal-hole! An unbearable... Read more about this item
"About Genoa (Jargon 43), Metcalf remarked in passing: 'I have written a wicked book, etc., etc., etc.' With The Middle Passage, we need a blurb saying: 'I have written a dark book, etc., etc.' And what a coal-hole! An unbearable... Read more about this item
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$15.00
Just Friends/Friends And Lovers
by Joel Oppenheimer
Jargon 57. A collection of Joel Oppenheimer's poems which were published by Jargon in 1980 and written from 1959-1962, only a short time after Joel's tenure at Black Mountain College. 87 pages. Bound in tan cloth with a cream dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by Bob Adelman. Dust jacket has some wear, scuffs, creases, tears, and a price sticker on front cover. Still fine internally.
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$20.00
Sappho's Raft
by Thomas Meyer
Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 1000 copies bound in plum-colored paper covers with cream wrappers. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. Minimal shelf wear to wrappers due to storage, but NEW, from publisher's stock."What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la...
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$10.00
The Changes Orders Becomings
by Peyton Houston
Jargon 106. In this set of three poems Peyton Houston continues his exploration of the predicament of the human in a universe not too-well understood and of what can be done about it. Afternote by the author. Designed by William E. Loftin, with three drawings made expressly for the book by artist James McGarrell. One of 1000 copies bound in warm, light brown cloth with cream-colored dust jacket. 65 pages. Fine.
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$10.00
Names & Local Habitations
by Joel Oppenheimer
Jargon 59. Selected earlier poems by Joel Oppenheimer, published by Jargon in 1988 and written between 1951-1972, overlapping Oppenheimer's arrival and tenure at Black Mountain College, as well as his transition into a fixture of the New York literary scene. Bound in glittery red cloth with salmon-colored dust jacket and endpapers featuring illustrations by abstract artist Philip Guston (1913-1980). Accolade by Hayden Carruth and introduction by William Corbett. Designed by Thomas Meyer and Jonathan...
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$20.00
Last Man In
by Richard Emil Braun
Jargon 107. Narrative poetry told from inside a Mexican jail during 1962 and 1963. Bound in black cloth with yellow spine label. Jacket photographs of mummies from the Church of Guanajuato, Mexico by Ron Nameth. NEW in publisher's mylar."These poems are narrative and multivocal; they could be radiophonic, but varied strophic forms (pulses) give them a solidly textual aspect. A main voice relays in solos an ensemble of other voices. All the voices are telling stories, while the main voice vividly...
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$5.00
Bill Anthony's Greatest Hits
by William Anthony, Robert Rosenblum
Jargon 90. Collection of black-and-white drawings by artist William (Bill) Anthony. Foreword by Robert Rosenblum. One of 2,000 copies issued in cloth, with metallic green foil illustration stamped on front cover, and illustrated endpapers. 84 pages. NEW."Those of us who have seen only a few of Bill Anthony drawings will never forget them, tart little comments on this or that sacred cow in a scraggly style instantly recognizable as his. But when these single drawings are all accumulated, categorized, and...
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$25.00
Jargon at Forty
by Jonathan Williams, Robert J. Bertholf
Catalog for "An Exhibition and Celebration" of Jargon Society books at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of SUNY Buffalo, October 18-19, 1991. Contains texts by Jonathan Williams and Robert J. Bertholf, and a Jargon Society checklist compiled by J. M. Edelstein (1979) with additions by Michael Basinski (1991). [36] pages, including 16 duochrome photographs. Stapled into plain cream paper wrappers. Staples are very slightly rusted from age; overall clean with minimal shelf wear.
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$20.00
Some Particulars
by Thomas A. Clark
Jargon 75. Scottish poet Thomas A. Clark's text experiments, placed with intentionality on the pages of this narrow 8vo. Printed in black and green. Stiff, glossy card covers featuring photography by Bart Parker. Designed by Jonathan Williams and Thomas Meyer. [68] pages. Minimal shelf wear, some discoloration to the white back cover, price sticker residue on front cover flap.
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$50.00
Letter in a Klein Bottle
by John Menapace
Jargon 97. A sequence of 60 photographs by John Menapace, published in September 1984 in conjunction with an exhibition by the photographer at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Introduction by Donald B. Kuspit. Afterword by Jonathan Williams. [8], 60, [16] pages. Bound in warm gray cloth with pictorial dust jacket. NEW, from publisher's stock.
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$25.00
Araminta and the Coyotes
by Paul Metcalf
Jargon 109. Short narrative fiction with commentary by Josh Billings. Bound in stiff black paper with glossy white dust jacket featuring a painting on the front by Mary Tillman Smith, and author photo on the back by Jonathan Williams. This is the sixth book of Paul Metcalf's narrative fiction to be published by the Jargon Society. It pairs a reconstruction of the story of American legend Harriet Tubman with text relating to Mexican undocumented immigrants. [32] pages. NEW, from publisher's stock.
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$25.00
Joys & Perplexities
by Lou Harrison
Jargon 110. Poems with black-and-white interior decorations (drawings) by Lou Harrison. Bound in white wrappers with striking bright red endpapers and pictorial dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by David Harmony. NEW, from publisher's stock.
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$30.00
St. EOM in the Land of Pasaquan
by Tom Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, Guy Mendes, John Russell
Jargon 64, Patrons' Edition. Number 83 of 100 copies of the Patrons' Edition, bound in the same bright red cloth as the regular edition, but with a pictorial inset on the front cover; clear acetate wrap; bright red colored top edges; signed by Tom Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes on colophon in colorful inks; and issued in a black cloth four-flap portfolio case with clasps and blind stamped lettering on upper cover. (Note that the colophon states that the Patrons' Edition was...
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$200.00
Sappho's Raft
by Thomas Meyer
Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 450 bound in cloth over board, issued without dust jacket. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3] pages. NEW in publisher's shrink wrap. "What I had in mind was Le Radeau de la Meduse ("The Raft of the Medusa") and what that painting by...
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$30.00
Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting’s 75th Birthday
by Jonathan Williams, ed
Jargon 66. Poems, letters, essays and remembrances compiled by the Jargon Society to celebrate Basil Bunting's 75th birthday, with contributions from over 90 individuals who see themselves as peers or inheritors of his work. Each contribution is unique and warmly reverent. One of 1250 copies issued for private distribution. [122] pages, double foldout frontispiece, 1 color illustration foldout. Bound in semigloss pictorial wrappers with front cover drawing by Ron Kitaj and back cover photograph by Ray...
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$25.00
Collects from the Book of Common Prayer.
by [Printed and Bound by H.D. and H.G. Webb at Caradoc Bedford Park Chiswick]
Caradoc Press, London, 1901 350 copies printed, (108) printed pages. Printed in black & red with wood-engraved borders, initials and decorations, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper with silk ribbon marker. Ink inscription on front free end paper ("Kenneth Loveless F.S.A. Hoxton, 16.vi.1962"). 12 x 14 cm. Original full vellum, lettered in gold on backstrip & Press device in gold on upper cover , uncut pages, top edges gilt (a light overall patina from handling). Kenneth...
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$315.38
Visions of Dame Kind
by Jeffery Beam
Jargon 113.Collection of poems by North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam. One of 200 copies bound in tan cloth, with forest green endpapers and a tan dust jacket featuring a drawing by James McGarrell. Frontispiece drawing also by McGarrell. 66 + [5] pages. NEW, from publisher's stock.
"In America we have meadows and woods, rather than parks and borders; obsession and trance where reflection would flourish. We are no gardeners, but shaman. The vegetable world still cultivates us. Its spellbinding old magic... Read more about this item
"In America we have meadows and woods, rather than parks and borders; obsession and trance where reflection would flourish. We are no gardeners, but shaman. The vegetable world still cultivates us. Its spellbinding old magic... Read more about this item
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$20.00
Red Jungle
by Harrington, Kent
Tucson, AZ: Dennis McMillan, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., 325pp. Beautiful Unread First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. A faint discoloration to the cloth at the heel, else Fine. Equally attractive dust-jacket, ($30.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creases or tears. Signed by bot the author and the publisher on the title page. A gorgeous collectable copy at a great price.
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$20.00
At Dusk Iridescent
by Thomas Meyer
Jargon 102. A compilation of poems by Thomas Meyer. One of 900 copies issued in stiff burgundy paper wrappers with dust jacket featuring photographs by Mark Steinmetz (frontispiece) and Guy Mendes (back cover). 257 pages. NEW, in publisher's mylar.
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$30.00
