Banyan Press (8 results)

Condition: Good. Foreword by Carl Van Vechten. 12mo. [8] pp. Lists books by Gil Orlovitz, William Jay Smith, Tristan Corbière, Stephen Spender, Gertrude Stein. With order form loosely inserted. Very good in wraps.

Banyan Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, glassine dust jacket. (x), 31, (3) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. Table of contents. Slightly rubbed and scuffed at edges. quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, glassine dust jacket.

Condition: Good. 18mo. 8 pp., Soft Covers, Very Good, with minor staining. Letterpress on fine paper. Price list of Banyan Press titles sold by Gotham Book Mart present.

Condition: Good. 8vo. 4 pp., Very Good, Single Folded Page, slight creasing. Letterpress printed on laid paper. Promotional materials announcing printing of new works of poetry by John Berryman, Barbara Gibbs, Stephen Sandy, & James Merrill. Other works mentioned include Donald Keene's translation of the Hojoki of Kamo no Chomei, An Account Of My Hut; & Thomas Merton's translation of Guigo the Carthusian's letter on the solitary life.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Set in Bodoni types. Number LIII of LX (1060) special copies printed on Dutch handmade paper and signed by the translator/editor. Title-page printed in black and purple. Portrait frontispiece of the poet. Quarter red cloth with gilt spine titling (a bit faded) , Curwen patterned paper-covered boards. A very good copy. I suspect that this copy has been bound up from sheets at a later date. Signed by Author(s).

Unbound. Condition: Fine. Three prospectuses in printed envelope. Envelope measures 7½" x 5½". The nicely printed prospectuses are fine; the envelope is about fine with a tiny bit of wear at the corners. Prospectuses for *An Account Of My Hut*, the *Hojoki* of Kamo no Chomei, translated by Donald Keene; Thomas Merton's translation of Guigo the Carthusian's letter on the solitary life; and two newly published "pawlet" pamphlets by James Merrill and Stephen Sandy. (This prospectus also advertises that a few copies of the first two "pawlet" pamphlets, by John Hollander and Barbara Gibbs, from the late 1950s are still available.).

1 vols. 8vo. First Edition, No. 206 of 500 copies. First Edition, No. 206 of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author on front pastedown: "For Charles Feinberg with best wishes on our first meeting--these first poems--William Jay Smith / Detroit / 17 March 1962" The Author's First Book, Inscribed. Original decorated paper over boards, tan cloth spine, fine. Signed.

1 vols. 8vo. First Edition, No. 273 of 500 copies. First Edition, No. 273 of 500 copies. 1 vols. 8vo. A virtually mint copy of the author's first book. Original decorated paper over boards, tan cloth spine, fine.