William Everson Afterword (6 results)

Paperback. 329p., preliminaries, forewords, epilogue, afterword, notes, very good first trade paperback edition in lightly-soiled and worn decorative wraps. Posthumous publication of the book the poet wrote as Brother Antoninus in the early 1950s and which remained unpublished until after his death.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. In very good condition; faint scuffing to wraps; short diagonal crease with paper surface splitting outside corners front cover; light toning to wraps; light soiling outside edges of book; former owner's name in ink top of initial title page; light toning to otherwise clean interior; binding tight; slight vertical creasing top of spine. 407 numbered pages. 8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.…

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. pp. 325 + 6 (author photo, bios & colophon). Covers a little soiled.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. A Fine Copy Of The First Printing Of The 1998 Expanded Edition In Trade Paperback, Simultaneous With Hardcover Issues And Used As An Advance Copy, With Publisher's Printed Label "Advance Copy / Please Use In Lieu Of Galley / Advance Copy".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Limited First Edition. Inscribed on half-title page nu author Budd Boetticher to Nick Beck, who is credited on copyright page for his assistance in producing the book. Dr. Beck was a university journalism professor who had an interest both in cinema and bullfighting. Contributors actor Robert Stack, Barnaby Conrad (bullfighting expert, Bill Krohn and William K. Everson all have inscribed the book to Nick adjacent to their contributions. Conrad has also added a pen sketch of a bull's head to the page he inscribed. Near fine, tight copy in fine dust jacket. 398 pages. This is the trade first edition, limited to 1000 copies. Autobiography of the noted film director and bullfighting enthusiast. Laid in are some related newspaper clippings and a one page flyer for a "Boetticher tribute at the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park. Inscribed by Author(s).…

First Edition. First edition. A previously unpublished poem unearthed by Everson that is a "stern admonition to Aldolf Hitler written in 1943" (from the prospectus). Number 124 of 200 copies SIGNED BY EVERSON AND CLOUGH, who supplied the full-page woodcut preceding the poem. Folio, quarter black morocco leather and cloth over boards; gilt stamped spine titling. Binding by The Schuberth Bookbindery, printed on hand-made English Tovil paper using an 1830 Acorn handpress and Weiss Roman and Italic typeface. The collector Allen K. Mears notes that Clough's first name is misspelled on the colophon. Two states of the prospectus laid in: one on the same paper and with same typeset as the published edition and 2 copies of a smaller one regularly printed on a thinner tan paper. Book and prospectuses fine. Signed.…