The Jargon Society 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

Jargon 99. Thomas Meyer's third book of poetry for the Jargon Society. One of 450 bound in cloth over board, issued without dust jacket. Frontispiece by David Hockney ("Tom listening to Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges"). Bright, clean text within, set in Garamond printed on Mohawk Superfine paper in black and purple ink. Five abstract illustrated pages. 105 + [3]… 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.

Jargon 110. Poems with black-and-white interior decorations (drawings) by Lou Harrison. Bound in white wrappers with striking bright red endpapers and pictorial dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by David Harmony. NEW, from publisher's stock.

Jargon 57. A collection of Joel Oppenheimer's poems which were published by Jargon in 1980 and written from 1959-1962, only a short time after Joel's tenure at Black Mountain College. 87 pages. Bound in tan cloth with a cream dust jacket featuring a cover photograph by Bob Adelman. Dust jacket has some wear, scuffs, creases, tears, and a price sticker… Read more about this item

Jargon 95. Collected correspondence, with a few facsimile images and photographs scattered throughout. Bound in silver wrappers with pictorial dust jacket, which "incorporates one of Aaron Siskind's walls from Martha's Vineyard, evocative of the granitic power of the New England landscape." -Jonathan Williams, on front flap. 87 pages. NEW from publisher's stock.

Jargon 97. A sequence of 60 photographs by John Menapace, published in September 1984 in conjunction with an exhibition by the photographer at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. Introduction by Donald B. Kuspit. Afterword by Jonathan Williams. [8], 60, [16] pages. Bound in warm gray cloth with pictorial dust jacket. NEW, from publisher's stock.

Jargon 114. Stunning collection exploring altars built in memory of loved ones lost on the roadside, captured in a freshly archaic photo medium. Foreword by Thomas Meyer. 185 pages plus index. Bound in gray cloth & issued without dust jacket. NEW.

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

Jargon 86. With Six Variations on a Chrysanthemum of William Morris, by printmaker Ian Gardner. Printed on lovely pale yellow Abbey Mill Pale Buff paper, with pictorial stiff paper wrappers. Front cover features illustration by Gardner; author photo on back cover by Paul Joyce. [72] pages. One of 950 copies bound in paper wrappers. Light foxing to covers and edges,… Read more about this item

Jargon 60. Designed and produced by the Arion Press in San Francisco. Cover montage by Joel Singer. Frontispiece photo by Robert Pruzan. Title page printed in red and black. [48] pages. One of 1500 copies bound in wrappers. Fine.

Jargon 69. "A tale of the Old West & the life, death & afterlife of a badde-mann or baeddel one hundred years after the birth of the American Republic." -Thomas Meyer. Drawings by John Furnival. [48] pages. Bound in pale yellow paper wrappers with white illustrated dust jacket and acetate cover printed in silver ink. Acetate a little chipped, else… Read more about this item

Jargon 104, LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. Black-and-white photographs by Mark Steinmetz paired with text by Janet Lembke. 44 plates. Limited edition of 50, individually numbered and signed by Mark Steinmetz and Janet Lembke. Bound in dark green cloth with matching endpapers, and gorgeous decorative paper dust jacket with paper label, protected by mylar. With original signed black-and-white print laid in. (Print… Read more about this item

Jargon 104. Black-and-white photographs by Mark Steinmetz paired with text by Janet Lembke. Paperback edition, NEW. "Who has ever seen Italian olive oil trees this well? For the past five years or so Mark Steinmetz has been teaching in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia at Cortona, in Tuscany. Tuscan Trees offers a portfolio… Read more about this item

Jargon 87. Poetry by Peter Yates, quarter bound in cloth with white pictorial dust jacket. Silverpoint illustrations by Susan Moore. Introduction by Peyton Houston. 89 pages. Some shelf wear including small tears in dust jacket.

Jargon 112. Full-page black-and-white photographs, reproduced in 300-line screen extended-range duotone by The Stinehour Press. Designed by Elizabeth Matheson and John Menapace (to whom the book is also dedicated.) "Illuminations & Pyrotechnic Display" (text & collected quotations) by Jonathan Williams. One of 1450 copies issued in dark green cloth with pale green dust jacket. 64 plates. NEW in publisher's mylar.

Jargon 113. Collection of poems by North Carolina poet Jeffery Beam. One of 200 copies bound in tan cloth, with forest green endpapers and a tan dust jacket featuring a drawing by James McGarrell. Frontispiece drawing also by McGarrell. 66 + [5] pages. NEW, from publisher's stock. "In America we have meadows and woods, rather than parks and borders; obsession and… Read more about this item

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

Jargon 64, Patrons' Edition. Number 83 of 100 copies of the Patrons' Edition, bound in the same bright red cloth as the regular edition, but with a pictorial inset on the front cover; clear acetate wrap; bright red colored top edges; signed by Tom Patterson, Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley, and Guy Mendes on colophon in colorful inks; and issued in… Read more about this item