Portrait Photographs (Signed First Edition) by WILLIAMS, Jonathan - 1979

Coracle Press, 1979. First edition. Preface by Hugh Kenner. A lovely book in wraps and acetate cover .... including text and photographs of many of the finest in the 20th century. Slipcase. Not to be missed. Includes Williams, Pound, Zukofsky, Rexroth, Olson, Minor White, John Jacob Niles, Ian Hamilton Finlay and others. Fine and bright wraps in very good slipcase.

Brand: Gnomon Press, 1979-01-01. paperback. Used: Good.

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.

Frankfort: Gnomen, 1979. First Edition. paperback. near fine. 30 mounted color photos. Square 8vo, printed wrappers, stiff black paper slip case. Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomen Press, 1979. Near fine.<br/><br/>

Gnomon, 1977. First edition. Fine and bright wraps in slipcase. Exquisite work by the poet and photographer who truly knew his subjects. New and bright all around, gift quality.

Frankfort, Kentucky: Gnomon Press, 1979. Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. Square 8vo. Book and dust jacket in very good condition, only with a small a light stain to base edge of text block, glassine cover with a closed tear and browning to the corner of the foot of the spine. Edition of 1800 copies, this is number 295.

London: Coracle Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine tissue dustwrapper and fine slipcase. One of 1800 numbered copies. A wonderful collection of author and artist photographs.

Gnomon Press, 1979. Hard cover. Very good/No jacket. One of only 1800 copies. Slipcase is lightly sunned and worn along edges. Spine of slipcase is creased. Jacket is lightly worn along edges of spine but in otherwise good condition. Cover is lightly smudged. Binding is secure. Inside is clean, bright, and unmarked.

hardcover. Thin square 8vo, paper boards. London: Coracle Press, 1979. First Edition. 30 color portraits "of friends in the arts with faces too interesting to be missed even by a poet on the run."<br/><br/>

Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press, 1979. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. A slight bump to the crown affecting both the book jacket, near fine in near fine tissue dustwrapper with a fine slipcase. One of 1800 numbered copies. Although not called for, Signed by the author.