Poetry from Captain's Bookshelf, Inc., ABAA

Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Light spotting to early and latter pages of text-block, otherwise near fine in original dark blue cloth, titled and decorated in gilt, all edges gilt. Binding square and tight, text bright and unmarked.. Duodecimo. 4.75 x 7.25 in. viii, 127 + [3] pp.

Minneapolis: Granary Books, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Near fine in original decorative paper.. Tall octavo. 6.5 x 10.75 in. Unpaginated. Limited issue, numbered 39 of 100 wrappered copies (165 in total) and signed by Jonathan Williams on colophon.

New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. A lovely 1957 Christmas ownership inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise near fine in original dark blue cloth, some fading to spine. Lacking dust jacket.. Octavo. 7 x 9 in. 84 + [2] pp. Pulitzer Prize winner, National Book Award winner. Inscribed by Robert Penn Warren on title… Read more

Fine glossy photo.. 8 x 10 in. Black-and-white, signed in black marker by Ginsberg.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in original black cloth and just about fine dust jacket.. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. 93 pp. Signed by Jack Gilbert on front free endpaper.

[Northampton, MA]: Adastra Broadsheet 2, 1992. First edition. A fine broadside of Gilbert's poem "Going Wrong" printed on Genesis Bone recycled paper. Faint silhouette image of a fish behind the text of the poem. Signed by Jack Gilbert. One of 100 copies. Available unframed.. 8.75" x 11.5" Broadside. 1 Sheet.

Winston-Salem, NC: The Jargon Society, 1999. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Softcover. Fine in original wine red wrappers and fine pictorial dust jacket.. Narrow quarto. 257 pages. With one black-and-white reproduction of a photograph (frontispiece). Signed by Meyer on the title page. Published as Jargon 102.

Flood Editions, 2011. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine in original pictorial wrappers.. Thin 12mo. 5.5 x 7.5 in. xii; 66 pp. Evocative cover photograph by Reuben Cox of Jonathan Williams at home at Skywinding Farm in Scaly Mountain, North Carolina. As new in original pictorial wrappers. A lovely book! Specially signed by Meyer and scarce, thus.… Read more

Asheville: The Captain's Bookshelf, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine in sewn Phthalo Blue Simpson Filare paper wrappers and fine Ichimatsu Blue handmade paper dust jacket.. Thin octavo. 5.75 x 9 in. [16] pp. One of 30 hors commerce copies (from a total of 180). The text consists of two previously published poems, one each by… Read more

Frankfort, KY and Asheville, NC: Broadstone Books and The Captain's Bookshelf, 2009. First Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in original blue cloth in a fine slipcase with a photographic onlay by Dobree Adams on the upper cover.. Octavo. 5.75 x 9 in. 39 pages. One of 30 hardcover copies. Signed by Morgan.

Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005. First Trade Edition. Paperback. Fine in original pictorial wrappers.. Octavo. x, 304 pp. Withblack & white photographic frontispiece portrait of Jonathan Williams. Signed by Jonathan Williams on title page.

Artlocate Derby, 1992. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Nearly-fine.. Tall thin quarto. One of 30 numbered copies. Seven single sheets laid into a printed folder with a photograph of Williams in his Lee County Lizard Patrol hat snapping a picture on the front cover. Signed by Jonathan Williams on title page.

Asheville: The Captain's Bookshelf, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Fine in Phthalo Blue Simpson Filare sewn wrappers.. Thin octavo. 5.75 x 9 in. [12] pp. This edition was handset in Eric Gill's Joanna type and printed by Dwight Agner at The Press of the Nightowl in Athens, Georgia. With a tipped-in color frontispiece by Janice La Motta.… Read more