Portrait Photographs
by Jonathan Williams
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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 Niles, Charles Olson, Paul Metcalf, and Guy Davenport. Bound in white wrappers with white pictorial dust jacket featuring a photograph of Williams himself, with a protective unprinted parchment cover slip, all housed in a paper slipcase box.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 71
- Title
- Portrait Photographs
- Author
- Jonathan Williams
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Gnomon Press
- Place of Publication
- Frankfort, KY
- Date Published
- 1979
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Jonathan Williams;
Terms of Sale
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore
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100% of BMCM+AC's proceeds from your purchase supports museum exhibitions, publications, education, and events. Visit blackmountaincollege.org to learn more about what we do!
100% of BMCM+AC's proceeds from your purchase supports museum exhibitions, publications, education, and events. Visit blackmountaincollege.org to learn more about what we do!
About the Seller
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore
Biblio member since 2019
Asheville, North Carolina
About Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Bookstore
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is dedicated to preserving and continuing the legacy of Black Mountain College as a forerunner in experimental, interdisciplinary arts and education. The BMCM+AC Bookstore sells books relating to BMC, the people who lived and learned there, and publications of the Jargon Society, founded by BMC alumnus and Asheville native Jonathan Williams.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Tipped In
- Tipped In is used to describe something which has been glued into a book. Tipped-in items can include photos, book plates,...