n.d. Grace Hoy, May Hoy, A Kelf, Thompson, E Youll. Leather bound. Autograph album with read marbled endpapers and pages in cream, pink and blue. Unpaginated and with many blank leaves but several poems, illustrations and inscriptions throughout. The leather cover is very worn at the edges and joints, head... More
180pp. Poem by Strickland on p.111 titled “The Jpsariot Bride”. Red leather covers with leather buckle, a.e.g., front pocket. Unused. Lacks frontis and tp. Part of the Strickland collection of 42 items, being offered together. “Miss Strickland was the first woman to force an entry into the State Paper Office and... More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. Cloth. One of 1000 cloth copies, red cloth spine, black eps, original glassine wrapper in good condition, 382pp. Top edge a little tanned, light foxing to edges of the textblock, Billy Jones signature spiral on p.77. $120. More
Cloth. Apple green cloth, paper label on top board, original glassine wrapper in good condition, tan eps, unpaginated (October 1974 – September 1975). Underlining, parentheses and marginalia by Billy Jones. Very Good. More
Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1975. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Original glassine wrapper with chips along top edge. Cloth spine with paper label, mandarin eps, 137pp. Billy Jones bookplate (mass produced, not personalised) on front pastedown. Notes in Jones’s hand at colophon. Light fox marks to the edges of the... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Of 250 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 246. Original glassine wrapper in good condition. Cloth spine with paper label, burnt orange eps, 129 pp. Billy Jones bookplate (mass produced, not personalised), “compliments of the author”... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1997. First Edition. :, Of 100 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 81. Original glassine wrapper in good condition. Cloth spine with paper label, dove grey eps, 260pp. More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. One of 500 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper a little creased, top board a little abraded at the foot. Cloth spine with paper label. Lime green eps, 266pp. Lightly foxed. More
Santa Barbara, Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982-91. 1/4 cloth. 5 volumes, first editions. Good to Very Good. Annotated by Billy Jones at the end of each. The Colour of Air. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. One of 300 trade cloth copies, 301pp. Lacks glassine wrapper. Edgeworn. Paper label... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1988. First Thus. One of 400 cloth trade copies. Original glassine wrapper slightly wrinkled. Cloth spine over illustrated boards with chipped and abraded paper label, mustard yellow eps, 161pp. Billy Jones’s signature spiral on ffep and at p.160, minor underlining. Foxing to edges of the... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1980. First Thus. First edition, one of 250 signed and numbered by the author. This is 110. 165pp., [4] biographical note and colophon. Cloth spine over illustrated boards. Signature Jones 'spiral' on p.159, underlining and marginalia on a few pages. Note at the end in... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1990. With Etchings by John Register. First Trade edition limited to 1000 copies in paper wrappers, 32pp., dark purple endpapers. Spine lightly abraded. From the personal collection of Billy Jones (1935 - 2012). Jones was a New Jersey-born but Queensland based artist and poet. While... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1983. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Original glassine wrapper a little worn at the top corners and head of spine. Cloth spine with paper label, blood orange eps, 133 pp., Billy Jones bookmark on front paste down (mass produced). One of 200 trade copies. Inscribed to... More
Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1979. First Edition. 1/4 cloth. Cloth spine with paper label, red eps, 133 pp. Of 200 hardcover copies numbered and signed by the author this is 20. Original glassine wrapper in good condition.Occasional marginalia from Billy Jones in his distinctive text. Light foxing. From the... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled16pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1999 Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski, John... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1995. Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled, 20pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1995. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski... More
Paperback. Poetry chapbook, stapled, 20pp., soft illustrated covers. A New Year's Greeting 1997. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best known for publishing Bukowski, John Fante, Paul Bowles and many... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1987. Fair. Square chapbook, 18pp. Covers are abraded and edgeworn. Trade paperback edition. A New Year's Greeting. 1987. Black Sparrow Press was founded in 1966 by John Martin specifically to put out the works of Charles Bukowski and other avant garde authors. It is best... More
New York and Hassocks, Sussex: Cornell University Press and The Harvester Press, 1975-1992. cloth. The Salisbury Plain Poems, edited by Stephen Gill. Ithaca , New York: Cornell University Press and Hassocks, Sussex: The Harvester Press, 1975, First Printing.xviii 310 pages. First title in the Cornell Wordsworth. Condition: Near Fine. Half... More
