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Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. SIGNED and inscribed by the author. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear to the dust jacket with some chipping and tearing. Moderate wear to the boards with some fading and discoloration. Foxing along the spine. Sound binding. Clean interior pages. New mylar added to the dust jacket. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Limited, numbered first edition of 1000 copies, this being copy 933, signed by Lloyd Reynold. Covers show some light soiling and very mild waviness. Interior is clean and unmarked. ix + 86 pages. 12 x 12 inches. A tribute to the master-calligrapher and Reed College professor, Lloyd J. Reynolds (1902-1978), with contributions from an exceptional array of calligraphers, poets, artists, and scholars, including Alfred Fairbank, Gary Snyder, John Cage, William Stafford, James Dickey, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch, Mary Barnard, Edward Catich, Raymond DaBoll, Jaki Svaren, William Dickey, Lou Harrison, Carolyn Kizer, Lucien Stryk, Vern Rutsala, and Jonathan Williams. Preface by Philip Whalen, who helped originate this volume along with the Reed senior (and author of the introduction), Mark Loeb. Additional contributors include: Jacob Avshalomov, Lois Baker, Arnold Bank, Ben Barzman, Yvonne Bianco, Robert Boardwell, Frank Paul Bowman, Bong Wai Chen, V.L.O. Chittick, Curtiss Cowan, Robert D. Crowley, Dorothy Dehn, Mark DeVoto, Jesse Green, Anne Gregory, Erik Gronborg, Kenneth O. Hanson, James Hayes, Jenny Hunter, Dell Hymes, Manuel Izquierdo, Frank Jones, Charles Leong, Mark Loeb, Sister Loyola Mary, Byron J. MacDonald, Edward Martin, James McGarrell, Monica Moseley-Pincus, Phiz Mozesson, Charles Munch, Maury Nemoy, Norman Paasche, Cindy Parker, Alton Pickens, David Ray, M.C. (Mary Caroline) Richards, Robert Ross, Sister Grace Taylor, Joshua C. Taylor, Ralph James Turner, and Clyde Van Cleve.

Hardcover with DJ. 1ST EDITION. INCLUDES A TYPED SIGNED LETTER (dated March 23, 1966) TO PREVIOUS OWNER BY ALFRED KNOPF. Dust jacket shows very minor shelving wear...slight shelving tan on spine, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.

Small 8vo. Green cloth with paper labels, slipcase. 52pp. Frontispiece. Very good/very good. Binding spine and edges ever-so-faintly sunned, else near fine. A tight and handsome first edition of this slim tribute volume, boldly signed and Inscribed by Knopf in blue ballpoint on the front flyleaf: "For Carl Haverlin / with sincere regard / Anfred a Knopf / 19 January 1960." (CARL HAVERLIN, 1899-1985, was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar, radio pioneer and president of Broadcast Music, Inc. ) Scarce collection of tributes published by a group of Knopf's friends called "The Book Table, " consisting of "a few each of publishers, booksellers, librarians, authors, designers and producers of books and book materials." Two side-by-side rear flyleaves bear the boldly inked signatures of six of the book's ten contributors: Novelist Carl Van Vechten (who took the frontispiece portrait), critic/essayist Carl Van Doren, H.L. Mencken, New York Public Library director H.M. Lydenberg, "Publisher's Weekly" co-editor Frederic G. Melcher and publisher B.W. Huebsch. Also signed by Milton Ferguson and Franklin F. Hopper (N.Y.P.L. librarians), Max Salop (book distributor), John T. Winterich (editor), C.C. Williamson (Columbia University librarian), Whitney Darrow ("New Yorker" cartoonist), Robert F. DeGraff (publisher, founder of Pocket Books), Nathan H. Shrift (? ), Benjamin S. Van Wyck (printer), Meredith Wood (co-founder Book-of-the-Month Club), John Meullor (? ), Harry Scherman (BOMC co-founder), Donald Barr (? ), John L. Ladd (publisher, Plimpton Press), Bertram Wolff (printer), Robert S. Lynd (editor/publisher turned sociologist, author of classic "Middletown"), George P. Brett (chairman, Macmillan Company), Elmer Adler (legendary typographer who founded "The Colophon"), Elmer Davis (journalist, radio news commentator), Charles Denhard (publishers' ad man), Fred Crofts (publisher), Michael A. Corrigan (book wholesaler), Alfred A. Knopf (again) and Cedric R. Crowell (publisher), plus one illegible. A unique cross-section of signatures from the book world. No limitation statement, but probably fewer than 50 copies were produced.