Roots Blues, Signed (18 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Inscribed by Author on title page. Very light shelf wear to edges. Pages crisp and clean. #E2/A/AB. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. INSCRIBED by Williams to Dick Rowson at half-title. Minor wear to dj with several very thin 1" opaque light brown spots at spine. NO SLIPCASE. Overall very crisp and clean. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition 2011. Signed by author on Title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 4to. Blue cloth-covered boards in dust-jacket, housed in blue slipcase. In an edition of 75 signed, slipcased editions, this is no.29. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 326 pp. "A collection of nineteen of Holger Petersen's in-depth radio interviews with artists." musicians include Ike Turner, Ian Tyson, Long John Baldry, and 16 others. Inscribed by Petersen on the title page. Bright clean copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: First. First Edition. The paperback issue. A Fine copy in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Williams under the title on the half-title leaf. Introduction by Herbert Leibowitz. 103 pages, unpaginated. Williams's paean to the rural rustic backwoods South, replete with ungrammatical quotations by the locals. Q04557.

10 x 7, pict wraps, unpag, covers worn and soiled, contents nice. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED "FOR JULIA FROM JONATHAN, HIGHLANDS 1985" BY THE AUTHOR.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Nicholas Dean (illustrator). First Edition. Presentation copy: "For . From Jonathan Williams Lexington March 1972 'git it from the Colonel" (Signed on the front fly-leaf). Illustrated with black-and-white photographs by Nicholas Dean. The glassine dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not price clipped. There are also photographic boards. Not an ex-library copy. No remainder marks. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. The jacket has short tears and rubbing along the top edges. Selling Used and Rare books online since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; Black-and-white photographs; 4to.; Unpaginated pages; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by poet to the original owner on the fly title page, pages otherwise unmarked, endpapers too. A brief letter from and to the same laid in. Also two Jargon Society postcards. Moderate wear to the jacket, some very small tears along the top edge. Clean boards, firm binding. Ships in a box. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Quarto, illustraed A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Jonathan Williams and dated by him in 1975 on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The format is approximately 7.125 inches by 10.25 inches. Unpaginated (approximately 110 pages). Signed by the author on the title page. Publisher's compliments card laid in. The dust jacket has some edge wear and chips and soiling. Introduction by Herbert Leibowitz. Jonathan Williams (19292008), photographer, poet, and publisher, was founder of the Jargon Society Press. Jargon was long associated with the Black Mountain Poets. The press has published work by Charles Olson, Paul Metcalf, Lorine Niedecker, Lou Harrison, Mina Loy, Joel Oppenheimer, Ronald Johnson, James Broughton, Alfred Starr Hamilton and many other works by the American and British avant-garde. Since Williams' death, The Jargon Society has continued publication through the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. His many works include Blues & Roots Rue & Bluets, An Ear in Bartram's Tree: Selected Poems, 19571967; Quote,Unquote; A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude; The Magpie's Bagpipe: Selected Essays; and Jubilant Thicket: New and Selected Poems as well as the collection Portrait Photographs. Williams was a living link between the experimental poets of Modernism's "second wave" and the unknown vernacular artists of Appalachia. The literary critic Hugh Kenner described Williams as the "truffle hound of American poetry." Williams was also a longtime contributing editor of the photography journal Aperture. Williams enjoyed publishing writers and artists that were considered "underdogs," often encouraging collaboration between them. Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic. This new, much enlarged edition of Blues and Roots displays all of the above. Williams has tramped the Appalachian Trail for decades, botanizing, jotting down specimens of authentic American speech, graffiti, superstitions, and nostrumsalways curious, alert, and affectionately attentive. Blues and Roots focuses on the linguistic horizon of Appalachia in lyrics of wonder and light, of wit and comic incongruity, in found poems of the speech of his mountain neighbors. Publishers Weekly said of the earlier edition, "One of the most beautiful and evocative tributes to the Appalachians and its people yet published." Blues and Roots is a fine celebration; Wiliams is a joyful ringmaster. The Jargon Society is an independent press founded by the American poet Jonathan Williams. Jargon is one of the oldest and most prestigious small presses in the United States and has published seminal works of the American literary avant-garde, including books by Charles Olson, Louis Zukofsky, Paul Metcalf, James Broughton, and Williams himself, as well as sui generis books of folk art such as White Trash Cooking. Though most of Jargon's writers are either cult figures or genuine obscurities, the books themselves are often intricately designed deluxe editions. Guy Davenport described the Jargon Society as "a paradoxical fusion of fine printing and samizdat diffusion." [Expanded Second Edition from the 1971 first edition from a different publisher]. Second Printing [stated].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Quarto. Photographs by Nicholas Dean. Pictorial boards, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, still near fine in a very good printed glassine dustwrapper, lightly yellowing with short tears on spine ends. Inscribed by the author on the front fly. Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in.

hardcover. First Edition. Copy #39 of 75 numbered and SIGNED copies. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper and Near Fine slipcase with some spotting.

First Edition. First edition thus, adding 33 new poems to the 1971 edition. "The poems [herein] make up an unofficial oral history in verse of the Southern Appalachian folk often vilified and dismissed as hillbillies" (from the foreword by Herbert Leibowitz). Number 38 of 75 numbered copies SIGNED BY WILLIAMS. Fine in fine dust jacket and slipcase, as issued. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good +. First Edition. Small quarto in publisher's slipcase. This copy is #2 of 75 of the signed limited edition. Signed by Williams on the half title page. Additional gift inscription on title page reads, "with love to my favorite author, Joanna." A very good + copy in a very good + dust jacket. Text block and half title/title pages are lightly foxed. Jacket darkened along spine. Navy blue pblisher's slipcase is spotted.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stuart Wood Collection All First Editions All in near Fine to As New Condition book plus dust jacket none are price clipped Inscribed "Chief" is faded but authentic books The collection included books that are signed ( not to an invidual or couple) inscribe to an individual or couple many to just one person the remainder that are not signed or inscribed are mostly his most recent books and most are as new. See listing for signature status shipped continental U.S. only by media mail images coming soon. Inscribed by Author(s).

First Edition Thus. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 409 copies. Octavo (26.25cm); navy blue cloth boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; [112]pp. Inscribed by Williams on the half-title page to Herb Leibowitz, who wrote the introduction: "Herb and Susan's copy of Blues & Roots / Rue & Bluets / with love from Jonathan." Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, edgeworn, spine-sunned, with dust-soil and some light toning to panel extremities, and a few tiny stains. A substantially enlarged edition of Williams's 1971 poetic ode to Appalachia, originally released by Grossman Publications. Provenance: From the collection Herb Leibowitz, literary critic and long-time editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Jaffe A149.

First printing. 8vo, pp. viii, 152. Discography, index. Signed on the half-title by Donald Wilcock and Buddy Guy. Copiously illustrated with photographs. Paper wraps. Cover slightly scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. This work traces Buddy Guy's life up through the early 1990s when he was honored with a Grammy Award. Included are exclusive interviews.