Rare books from G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA

Oakland: By the editor. Very Good. 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Two 17"x13.75" sheets, printed & illustrated on both sides; folded twice and housed in folding portfolio with illustrated cover, "Down for a Drink" by K. C. Rignall, and printed poems and graphics on inside panels. Each folded sheet functions as a booklet with illustrations and poems each page. Unfolded, one side of each sheet is printed & illustrated full page: i. E. , one sheet has the poem Loneliness printed down the left side of the sheet with facing graphic; the other sheet is a full page mandala. The back of the portfolio contains contributor and imprint information, with the place, Broadway Terrace, Oakland Cal, crossed out in pen, and 4 Hawthorne Av, San Anselmo written below. Portfolio with light tanning to extremities and two small (less than a dime) light spots near spine front cover; interior of portfolio with darker strip of tan down vertical fold crease. The first sheet mentioned… Read More

Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: Davison Press. Very Good. 1972. First Edition. Softcover. 74 pp., all half-tone photographs; square 12mo; stapled white wrappers of coated stock. Soil to covers. All photographs were taken in the last four years while traveling in the United States, Western Europe, and North Africa. .

San Francisco: Renaissance Sound and Publications. Fine. 2000. First Edition. Softcover. 0943485061 . 212 pp.; 8vo; illustrated wrappers. Inscribed by the author on the title page: "Dear Richard (Zybert), you're the best, Thank you!, Barbara Riddle, May 2000, San Francisco." Book cover designed by Richard Zybert Graphics. Publisher's printed annoucement post-card reproducing the book cover, laid in. A rite-of-passage novella set in the hothouse atmoshphere of cutting-edge molecular biology research in Boston, circa 1963, the "last year of the fifties."; Signed by Author .

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. Limited Edition. Hardcover. No 217 of 250 copies, signed by Jess and Robert Duncan, who wrote the Introduction, on the colophon. I-xiii, 1-26, (5) pp. 'Gloss' listing 26 photographic images, or illustrations with descriptive text for each. 4to; yellow cloth with pasted down color cover illustration, title stamped in orange, paper spine label. In clear acetate jacket as issued, with a half-inch piece missing around top of spine. This book is published by Black Sparrow Press for Odyssia Gallery of New York City in conjunction with an exhibition of oil paintings by Jess held in May-June 1971.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Rafael, CA: By the editor. Near Fine. 1982. Softcover. Light soil to covers. ; Signed by Robin Bullard bottom margin first page. 24pp; 8vo; pale yellow wrappers; a chronological narrative of 18 full page black & white photographs with captions depicting Suspicions, Questions, Arrest, Atomization, etc. ; Signed by Author(s) .

(San Francisco): Room 101 Publications. Fine. N.D.. First Edition. Softcover. 24 unnumbered pages; 8vo; photo-illustrated light gray wrappers with illustrated acetate cover overlay. Illustrated with 13 images, chiefly photographs, or negatives in various sizes 5" x 3.5" , 4" x 5", etc. , all laid in loose, but inserted into pasted down photo corners, with facing text . .

Iowa City: Drawing Legion. Near Fine. 1990. Softcover. Page 1551 to 1632; sq. 8vo; stapled wrappers; articles, essays, copier art; inserted sleeve with RRR/R12 EP record, with fold-out section of 'liner notes'. Light wear to covers, record fine. Scarce .

(1974). Near Fine. 1974. Softcover. 0814773591 . 338 pp.; 4to; gray wrappers; photographs and other reproductions. Light wear. .

San Francisco: Howard Munson (1982). Fine. 1982. Softcover. Black pocket folder with cover label housing 42 11" x 8.5" sheets (21 each pocket), printed on one side. Consisting of title page, and two pages listing participating artists; the other sheets xerox or other offset printing methods, of illustrations, collages, etc., some with color, on various paper stocks. 4" x 8.5" printed 'thank you' announcement to participants on red paper stock, slipped in. Appears to be signed by Munson. Participating artists: Richard Zybert, Enrique Chagoya, Mariaeta Castellanos, Robin Bullard, Mark Bulwinkle, Maya Ishiwata, E. J. Yurkov, Kevin Brown, and many others.; Signed by Author(s) .

San Francisco: (romax) 1980-82. Fine. 1980. Softcover. 7" x 4.5"; illustrated, stapled wrappers; Special Benefit Issue (1980) with photo-illustrated plain paper wrapper. No. 19 with inserted booklet by Takuya Kanno; No. 21 with 4 "attached" pieces glued, bound and 'stabbed' in. Special Benefir Issue with cover showing photos of first 9 issues; includes a 'thank you' editorial of 2 1/4 pages; double page drawing by Mona Beaumont with text, Old bird Phoenix never done with curtain calls . . ." by William Beaumont; many advertisements including an inserted small piece on yellow stock for Peacock Sandwich Co. .

Singapore: Math Paper Press. Very Good. 2012. First Edition. Softcover. 9810728492 . Printed white wrappers, show moderate soil; light vertical crease front cover. Two Poem anthology, arising from the accidental advocacy of one poet, coming off the back of her love for walking about in the less beaten paths in Singapore. In a series of chapbooks borne of the Babette's Feast public gathering of writers.; 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall .

N. Y.: Covici Friede Inc.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1936. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Hint of dust soil to cloth top edge; very light toning to margins of text pages, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Jacket with moderate soil, most apparent on light yellow back panel; spine a bit darkened; front flap with 2" closed split at fold ends, rear flap with 1" split and a spot of loss at bottom fold end; chips and short closed tears top edge; spine of jacket with two small holes of loss, the largest about 1/4" sq. , and a bit of loss at bottom edge; 2" closed split from spine top edge. In protective mylar wrap. ; Goldenrod cloth lettered in black, ruled in red; top edge stained red; price $2.50 front flap. Goldstone & Payne A5b. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 349 pages; Steinbeck's novel about a strike of migratory apple pickers and the attempts of communists to organize them. A realistic presentation of partisan passions crushing men of good will. .

Paris: Correa. Good. 1945. First Edition. Softcover. Loss at spine ends, half-inch on botton, eighth on top; mild toning to covers at extremities, with two offset marks front cover; light even toning to pages. ; Gray self-wraps, lettered in red & black. Inscribed on half-title "A, Simon Karlinsky, en sincere amitie, Alain Bosquet, Berlin, 1946. Karlinsky was a distinguished scholar of Russian literature and vibrant member of the University of California, Berkeley, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures for nearly 50 years. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 65 pages; Signed by Author .

London: Rooms of the Society for Psychical Research; Trubner & Co.. Good. 1886. First Edition; 2nd State. Hardcover. Re-backed and sturdy, with original spine cloth laid down both volumes, also later burgundy paper pastedowns and endpapers; spine cloth volume one with a short streak of rubbing across lower portion; leading corner tips bumped with a bit of rubbing which looks like it has been treated also; small bubble to cloth lower front of volume two. Hinges solid & contents clean. ; Blue cloth lettered in gilt. Second state, with additions and corrections. Includes drawings, tables, index. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 573; 733 pages .

London: Nodder & Co.. Very Good. (1790-1813). Hardcover. 5 of the 48 plates show more pronounced degrees of offset from facing text page; several others have very faint offset, most are quite clean. There is offset from images to facing text pages, most obvious opposite the first 6 plates. Rubbing and wear to corners and edges with some wear through to boards at corner tips and front edges. Bottom and middle panel of spine leather with shadow of library labels; front pastedown shows stain and scuffing from plate removal. No other library marks or stamps; rear pastedown with a scuff and vertical 7"X3" area of tanning with offset to rear endpaper likely from library pocket. Save for the offset to some plates and facing pages, interior text pages and plates very clean. Binding tight. ; Contemporary red half-morocco, lettered & ruled in gilt and marbled paper over boards. Without title page as issued, two dedication pages, one in Latin the second in Latin. Illustrated with 48… Read More