Bentley Wilder (18 results)

Twelve folders with text, a few illustrations and spot-color decoration. Complete contents, but lacks the enclosing box, and the first folder has picked up some faint soil. Topics touch on Chinese newspapers, postcards of Chinatown, cookbooks, calligraphy, art of course, a special 1930s production of Harte's satirical poem 'The Heathen Chinee', and more. Keepsake.

Leather Bound. Condition: New. 70 CHOOSE ANY COLOR OF YOUR CHOICE WITHOUT ANY EXTRA CHARGES, JUST CLICK ON MORE IMAGES FOR OPTIONAL COLORS and inform us your choice through mail. Unique Leather Bound Edition having Spine and corners bind with leather with Golden Leaf Printing on round spine. Reprinted in 2023 with the help of original edition published long back [9999]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or missing or black spots. If it is multi volume set, then it is only single volume, if you wish to order a specific or all the volumes you may contact us. We expect that you will understand our compulsion in these books. We found this book important for the readers who want to know more about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Hope you will like it and give your comments and suggestions. Lang: - eng, Pages 70, Print on Demand. {FOLIO EDITION IS ALSO AVAILABLE.} Language: eng.

Pamphlet. 48p., 4.5x6 inches, two poetry journals in one stapled booklet in yellow wraps. Two poetry journals combined. One focuses on haiku and short forms.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.

Condition: Good. BROADSIDE. Folio. 11" x 17" Very Good with minor creasing.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Limited. Folded Broadside (limited to 121 copies) by the Acorn Press. 19" x 12" (c. 6" x 5" folded) with "Worthy" watermark. The broadside itself is in excellent condition, Fine, having been protected for decades in the paper wrappers. The grey wraps are clean with slight fade along the top & right side edges. There is a 1/2" tear to grey wraps at top left corner. The Broadside is clean without any soil or tears. Tips are slightly rubbed. A delicate item in Very Good condition. Please "Ask Bookseller" if this is available before ordering.

First edition. 4to. 45 cm. 19, [1] pp. Wood engraved abstraction of the initial 'I' on Prolegomena, vignette on title page and design on front cover by John C. Haley. Cloth binding with printed design, light discoloration on covers, else overall very good condition. (92241). One hundred five copies set up and printed on a handpress by Wilder and Ellen [Bentley] on dampened Strathmore Wayside Text.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Unbound in cardstock folder with integral foredge. Consists of (2) + 37 fine stock leaves printed on one side. Poetry composed during 1968-1970 at San Francisco State University during a time of "crisis and ordeal," the longest college teachers' strike in U.S. history. In Professor Bentley's annotation to his title asterisk, he describes this work as "A documentary account, week by week, of the vapors and humors of scandal transpired in my Englislh 177(14 and English 177(7) seminars in the literature and practice of militant non-violence during the spring and fall semesters, respectively, of 1970." A scarce item from a renegade radical leftist American poet, academic, printer and artist. Carefully shipped.

Paperback. First edition. Original printed wrappers, 5 x 6.5 inches, 10 couplets printed on single sheet, 20 x 13 inches, folded and tipped to inside of front wrapper. Editiion of 121 copies printed on the Acorn Press in the Thousand Oaks, Berkeley. Front wrapper faded from lilac to light gray, else about very good.

Condition: Good. French-Folded Leaf, 6.5 x 9 cm. 4 pp. Letterpress on Watermarked Laid Paper with Deckled Edges, Black & Red Ink. Very Good+. Scarce.Keepsake for the members of the Roxburghe-Zamorano Club joint meeting in San Francisco in 1976.

Unbound. Condition: Good. Large broadside folded as issued in printed gray sleeve. Small tears and stains at the folds, a sound but good only example. No. 2 in the Acorn Broadside Series. One of 121 copies printed on Worthy handmade paper. Uncommon.

Condition: Good. Broadside. Unfolded: 19" x 12.5"; folded: 6.25" x 5". Letterpress on Off-White Deckled Laid Paper with Watermark (Very Good), mounted to Letterpress Deckled Grey Paper French-Folded (Good with marginal tear, faint toning).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Printing. A rare and what appears to be a handbound copy. Illustrated with reproductions of 29 original drawings, one photograph and two maps. A charming collection of drawings and descriptions of San Francisco and North Bay bridges, many of them small and out of the way, by the well-known Berkeley artist and son of poet-printer Wilder Bentley of the same name. Very clean and neat in freshlooking medium-blue, soft paper covers. Small (about 1/2 inch) darker-blue colored stain along the edge of front cover, and front corners have a slight curl. Glued-on title label has a little fold to the lower corner and some bleed through of the glue from underneath, causing a mild effect of staining, but other than these small detractants it is a tidy, attractive, crisp copy. Pages are very bright white and neatly bound with an unusual kind of strung cord arrangement. Very scarce.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIREBRANDS : FIVE POEMS. A chapbook of ANARCHIST RADICAL POETRY by JUAN ORTEGA, WILDER BENTLEY, NORMAN MACLEOD, LAWRENCE A. HARPER, FRANK ANKENBRAND, JR. Published by The Burlington Chapbooks, Philadelphia, 1935. Printed by ALPRESS in a LIMITED EDITION of only 175 copies. This is the fifth publication in the Burlington Chapbooks series. Chapbook / Booklet, heavy stock paper covers, paper title label on the front cover, string bound, 5.5x8.5 inches, six numbered pages of poems, plus an unnumbered Title Page, Contents Page, and Colophon Page. The poems are: CHAUVINISM, by Juan Ortega; ANARCHIST PORTRAIT IN CALIFORNIA, by Norman Macleod; LAST PRELUDE, by Lawrence A. Harper; TO A POET OF THE PROLETARIAT, by Wilder Bentley; and FOR THE COUNTER-REVOLUTIONIST L. F., by Frank Ankenbrand, Jr. GOOD condition, a bit of wear to the corner tips, a small area of light shorelining to the top edge of the title page; overall remains tight, bright, clean and unmarked. One of the nicer copies this delicate chapbook that I have seen.

Pamphlet. 14p., 6.5x9.75 inches, frontispiece, dedication, biographical note, 15 poems, colophon hand-numbered 44/300 copies and signed by the poet with block-print vignette signed by Wilder Bentley, very good chapbook in sewn lavender wraps with yoni decoration on cover in green. The poet's first book of poetry, dedicated to a friend back home in Florida. Only 10 copies found in OCLC as of 10/2021. Anderson was born and raised in Florida and became one of the Beat poets in Greenwich Village and later San Francisco's North Beach. There he edited "Beatitude" and founded the Communication Company with Claude Hayward which printed most of the handbills, posters and pamphlets of the Diggers and the SF Mime Troupe. Bentley was an important Bay Area printer, calligrapher, poet and fine press publisher exhibited at the De Young. Martinelli was Ezra Pound's helpmate at St. Elizabeth's.

No Binding. Condition: Near Fine. Dave Rike was a local San Francisco printer, union activist and SciFi fanzine writer/artist who befriended Wilder Bentley in the late 1950's in Berkeley. These four letters (three handwritten, one typed) and postcard chronicle Bentley's travels, and observations, as he traveled around California and Colorado seeking both employment and spiritual enrichment in the 1959/60 time period. Quite a charming batch, especially since Bentley had such a calligraphic turn to his writing!. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Large broadside folded as issued in printed brown sleeve. Small tear in one margin and at the bottom of the spine, else very near fine. No. 1 in the Acorn Broadside Series. One of 121 copies printed on Worthy handmade paper. Uncommon.

The collection includes 26 printed scrolls (that for the lettes A and B are supplied in Xerox facsimile), some rolling out to about 15 feet in length, each with the text of this epic poem arranged in columns, each in a tube beautifully covered in various colors of hand-made papers. The edition size varies and may be in question; it is doubtful that the edition size was ever as large as 100 for any of the one scrolls, the edition of some is a stated forty, and a few may even be less. "These scrolls," Emerson Wulling wrote about Bentley (A Comp's-Eye-View of Wilder Bentley and the Archetype Press), "are a humanistic autobiography of life lived on the border of materialism.written in various metrical forms. This is a typographical and literary accomplishment. One thinks of the Education of Henry Adams as being like The Poetry of Learning. Both are life views. Adams is a historian among whose symbols of life is the dynamo. Bentley is a man of letters who lives with a printing press. Both use their education as bases for reviewing their lives in context with their times. In doing so they offer substantial thought about human values. The early scrolls are largely narrative and descriptive about travels in Europe, about teaching, about printing. The later scrolls are more epigrammatic, about people, about current events, about environment. All are written in more or less traditional English poetic diction, with occasional sly puns. They read comfortably despite several rigorous structures: terza rima, sonnet, canzone, sestet, and free verse." Bentley was one time Laboratory Assistant at the Laboratory Press, Carnegie Institute of Technology where he worked 1930-34, and from then on in Berkeley. Scroll A is in facsimile but the tube is original; scroll B has been reproduced on water-marked paper, but the tube is blue cardboard. All else fine or better, as issued.