Jonathan Williams from Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore

Prospectus for Red/Gray (Jargon 3) which was published in an edition of 150 copies. This prospectus lists individuals involved (verse: Jonathan Williams; drawings: Paul Ellsworth; printing: Joel Oppenheimer's The Sad Devil Press) and directs purchasers to place orders with Dan Rice at Black Mountain College. Fine condition, never mailed, perhaps because the cuts were off—part of the final "a" in… Read more about this item

This book of essays, images, and shouts aims to bring new eyes and contexts to Jonathan Williams' influence and talent as poet and publisher, but also heighten appreciation for the other facets of his life and art. One might call his life a poetics of gathering, and this book a first harvest. Paperback, 469 pages. NEW.

Square 4to with 30 tipped in beautiful vintage color Roliflex portraits taken by Jonathan Williams of luminaries, friends and collaborators, with short essays outlining Williams' personal connection/fascination with each, whether lifelong literary idols and icons or personal friends and admirers from his two homes, Highlands, NC and Dentdale, England. Some featured subjects include William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg, John Jacob… Read more about this item

Prose book with some poetry and photographs. Bound in textured gray paper pictorial wrappers, printed in green and black with copper foil. Colophon states that all copies were issued numbered and signed by the author; this one is numbered (52 of 500 copies) but not signed.

A selection of Jonathan Williams poems published in 1982 and written between 1957 (the final year of Black Mountain College) and 1981. Introduction by Poets Now editor Robert Peters. xi, [xii], 176 pages. Paperback version, bound in white pictorial wrappers with a cover photograph of the author by David Colley, and blurbs on the back cover. NEW though exhibiting some… Read more about this item

Catalog for "An Exhibition and Celebration" of Jargon Society books at the Poetry/Rare Books Collection of SUNY Buffalo, October 18-19, 1991. Contains texts by Jonathan Williams and Robert J. Bertholf, and a Jargon Society checklist compiled by J. M. Edelstein (1979) with additions by Michael Basinski (1991). [36] pages, including 16 duochrome photographs. Stapled into plain cream paper wrappers. Staples… Read more about this item

Jargon 103. A collection of well wishes, anecdotes and musings assembled by Jonathan Williams to celebrate the 70th birthday of Donald B. Anderson, "the Polymathic, Panoramic Proteus of the Pecos Valley." Bound in glossy wrappers, with polaroids by Jonathan Williams on front and back covers. Design by Jonathan Greene. [64] pages. One of 700 copies. Spine faded from light, else… Read more about this item

This edition of the conceptual artist and poetry magazine features 10 photographs by poet, photographer, and Jargon Society founder Jonathan Williams. Front matter is a photograph of Williams on his 51st birthday by David Colley. Stapled in glossy white wrapper. [24] pages. Fine with crisp corners.

Jargon 66. Poems, letters, essays and remembrances compiled by the Jargon Society to celebrate Basil Bunting's 75th birthday, with contributions from over 90 individuals who see themselves as peers or inheritors of his work. Each contribution is unique and warmly reverent. One of 1250 copies issued for private distribution. [122] pages, double foldout frontispiece, 1 color illustration foldout. Bound in… Read more about this item

An eclectic collection of "petalled wit, wisdom, absurdity, and insolence" compiled from texts as well as from "simply passing through a literate world.⁠" One of 1500 copies. Glossy covers illustrated on the front with a drawing by James McGarrell. 48 pages. Condition: NEW.

Collection of texts that previously appeared in altered form in HOT WHAT (Mole Press, 1975) and in the series of visual postcards issued privately by the Jargon Society. One of 500 unnumbered and unsigned copies. Designed by Artek/Tom Chipley. Cover photo of Allen Beresford by Jonathan Williams. Tall, narrow quarto bound with two staples slightly rusted with some discoloration to… Read more about this item