waldport press (8 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Gross, Daerick, Sr. (illustrator). 3rd Edition. Very Good copy. (see picture) 698 pages including index.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by B. Straker James. Small quarto. Stapled illustrated wrappers. About very good with stain on the back, wear at the yapped edges and a tear on the first page. One of 950 copies. A volume of poetry about living in a Civilian Public Service Camp, published by a group of pacifists housed in such a camp on the Oregon coast during the war. Scarce.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. approx 36p large format booklet, illustrated grey card cover, title page printed in two colours, excellent fresh copy, first edition, partly un-cut copy, illustrated by B Straker James Language: English.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First printed edition, with expanded text ("containing an addition War Elegy V"). Previously issued in mimeographed form in 1943. Illustrated by Kemper Nomland, Jr. Octavo. [34]pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. Fragile wrappers have some fading on the spine, and a small paper remnant inside front wrap, else very good. Limited to 975 copies.

Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition, Likely Second Impression. First edition, likely second impression. (According to Morgan the first and second impressions are identical. All but roughly 30 copies of the first impression were scrapped due to a printing mishap.) [35] pp. Heavy black wraps with slick white label wrapped around fold. A Near Fine copy with a little rubbing to label, thumb crease, and light shelf wear, but still very clean and sharp. This little chapbook, designed by Kemper Nomland, Jr. was printed in a WWII conscientious objectors' camp after regular work hours. City Lights founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti admired a copy, noting how the white label stylishly obscured the staples beneath that bound it, and copied it for his Pocket Poets series, which would prove to have some of the most iconic Beat poetry books such as Allen Ginsberg's Howl. [Morgan A8b.].

First Edition. First edition limited to 500 copies printed by Everson himself, 8vo, pp. [34]; erratum slip tipped in at p. [15]; printed in black and red throughout; original printed wrappers a bit toned along the edges, corners worn; very good. Printed while Everson was at the Conscientious Objector's Camp in Oregon.

First Edition. First edition limited to 500 copies printed by Everson himself, 8vo, pp. [34]; erratum slip tipped in at p. [15]; printed in black and red throughout; original printed wrappers a bit toned along the edges; very good. Signed by Everson on the title page and with a presentation inscription by him on the flyleaf: "For Peter Bartlett, All the other Untide Press items were team-made, commercial products. This one I did on my own. Bill Everson, New Years Day, 1974.".

First edition. First edition. (This edition has mimeographed contents and silkscreened covers, and ten poems rather than the later eleven. One of 100 copies according to Everson's biographer Lee Bartlett.) [20] pp. Bound in publisher's wraps glued over stapled contents, silkscreened in yellow and black. Very Good with two hole punches near head, "Education Dept." written in ink on front wrap, toning to wraps and contents with age. Scarce in the true first edition.A significant work of Pacific Northwestern poetry, the first publication of Untide Press in WWII conscientious objector logging camp Camp Angel in coastal Oregon. The innovative production of this volume, hiding the staples that bind the text underneath glued wraps, would influence Lawrence Ferlinghetti's famous book design for City Lights. Everson himself would be later be associated with Ferlinghetti and the Beats. This copy belonged to the late William Matchett, a professor at University of Washington, poet, and, due to his being a Quaker, a one-time conscientious objector who was subjected to medical experiments at the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.