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Photography. Limited edition of 1800, numbered. Tipped in are thirty square color portrait plates by Williams of poets, artists, photographers, and musicians, among them William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Mina Loy, Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg, H.D., and Lorine Niedecker. Glassine dust jacket in publisher's stiff paper slipcase.
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About the Author
Jonathan Williams (1929-2008) founded the Jargon Society--a publisher dedicated to experimental fiction, photography, and visionary folk art--and has championed the underdog, maverick, and outsider in the arts for fifty years. He has also published over 100 of his own books, pamphlets, and broadsides of poetry, essays, and photography. He lived on Skywinding Farm in rural North Carolina.
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- PublisherGnomon Press
- Publication date1979
- ISBN 10 0917788168
- ISBN 13 9780917788161
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages75
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Portrait Photography
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Gnomon Press, Frankfort, KY, 1979
ISBN 10: 0917788168
ISBN 13: 9780917788161
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Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo. 7.5 x 8.25 in. [60 pp.] Illustrated with 30 laid-in color reproductions of portraits by Williams. Fine in original glassine covered stiff pictorial wrappers and very good slipcase with sunning to extremities. Specially signed on title page. Number 1035 of an edition of 1800. Seller Inventory # 6493
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Portrait Photographers
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ISBN 10: 0917788168
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Soft Cover-- Wrappers. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Limited/Numbered Edition. Large 8vo. Unpaginated. 30 color portraits. Preface by Hugh Kenner: Limited/Numbered Edition, 1979. No. 1060 of an Edition of 1800 Copies, and Signed by the Photographer on the half-title. Faintly toned clear dust jacket, else, Pristine, no wear. No markings, binding tight, clean, white and bright. 7.75" x 8.25". Pictorial wrappers with Publisher's clear dj. Size: Large Octavo. Signed by Author(s). Book. Seller Inventory # 9875
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Portrait Photographs
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ISBN 10: 0917788168
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. Large octavo. 7.75 x 8.5 in. Fully illustrated with 30 laid-in color reproductions of photographs. Very good in original cloth boards with some staining to head of textblock and good cloth slipcase with some discoloration in which some of the cloth has detached (pictured). This is #7 of an edition of 1800 copies, of which the first fifty copies have been specially bound and signed by Williams. Seller Inventory # 6444
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Portrait Photographs
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. #25/50cc, signed and numbered by the photographer, of the 1500 printed. Mild edgewear. In slipcase. Seller Inventory # 95580
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