A COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS
30 items, most signed by Mt. Metcalf. The full list below:
WILL WEST. Ashville (NC): Jonathan Williams (1956) First edition. 8vo, pp. 68. 1/500 copies. Printed wraps, a very good copy.
WILL WEST. Lenox: The Bookstore Press (1973) Second Edition. 8vo, pp. 76. Paper wraps. Very good.
GENOA, A telling of Wonders. Highlands, NC: The Nantahala Foundation, 1965. First edition. Tall 8vo, pp. 190. A very good copy in little worn, price clipped dj. Inscribed by Metcalf
GENOA, A telling of Wonders. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (1991) 8vo, pp. 190. Paper wraps, a very good copy. Inscribed by Metcalf.
APALACHE, Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1976. First edition. 8vo, pp. 178. Very good copy in dj, signed by Metcalf.
THE MIDDLE PASSAGE (A Triptych of Commodities). Jargon 78. Highlands, NC: The Jargon Society, 1976. First edition. 8vo, printed wraps. Signed by Metcalf.
UPRIVER FARMING AND INDUSTRY, an excerpt from WATERS OF POTOWMACK, a documentary history of the Potomac River Basin. Tansy 5. [Lawrence, KS: Tansy(1977) Paper wraps, signed by Metcalf.
UNITED ARTISTS THREE, June 1978. Lenox, MA. Edited by Bernadette Mayer and Lewis Warsh, Tall stapled self wraps. Covers little soiled. Contains “Big Charles: A Gesture Towards Reconstitution” by Metcalf.
ZIP CODES. [Lawrence, KS, Tansy Press, 1979] First edition. 8vo, printed wraps, signed by Metcalf
THE ASSASSINATION. [Barrytown, NY] Station Hill (1979) Printed wraps. 1/1000 printed. Signed by Metcalf.
U.S. DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR [Frankford, KY: Gnomon Press (1980) First edition. 8vo, pp. 82. Printed wraps, fine.
CREDENCES,8, 9. (1980) Includes work on Paul Metcalf by Harry Lewis, John Moritz, Bob Callahan. Alex Gildsen adds “Paul Metcalf, A checklist” Includes from “The Island” by Metcalf.
WILLIE’S THROW, a poem. Print by James Kearns. NY: Pequod Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo, pp. 10 Wraps, #93 of 100 copies signed by Metcalf and Kearns. A very good copy.
WILLIE’S THROW, a poem. Print by James Kearns. NY: Pequod Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo, pp. 10 Wraps, #6 of 100 copies signed by Metcalf and Kearns. A very good copy.
WILLIE’S THROW, a poem. Print by James Kearns. NY: Pequod Press, 1981. First edition. 8vo, pp. 10 Wraps, #15 of 100 copies signed by Metcalf and Kearns. A very good copy.
WILLIE’S THROW. [Richmond, MA: Mad River Press, 1989] Printed wraps. 1/350 copies. Signed by Metcalf.
WILLIE’S THROW. [Richmond, MA: Mad River Press, 1989] Printed wraps. 1/350 copies. Signed by Metcalf. Also signed by the publishers: David Raffeld and Barry Sternlieb
WILLIE’S THROW. [Richmond, MA: Mad River Press, 1989] Printed wraps. 1/350 copies.
BOTH, The Jargon Society. (1982) Large 8vo, (pp. 122) A very good copy in little worn dj. Inscribed by Metcalf: “October, 1982 | For Mike & Allison | wonderful hosts! | Paul Metcalf
WATERS OF POTOWMACK. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. First edition. 8vo, pp. 246. A very good copy in dj. Signed by Metcalf.
LOUIS THE TORCH. Montreal/New York: Cross Country Press (1983) First edition.
GOLDEN DELICIOUS, illustrated by Wendy Osterweil. Tucson: Chax Press, 1985). First edition. Tall 8vo, bound in plain brown wraps. #85 of 150 copies printed.
ARAMINTA AND THE COYOTES. The Jargon Society, 1991. First edition. 8vo, pp.
PAUL METCALF, Collected works. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press (1996) First edition. Three volumes: Vol. 1 1956-1976; Vol. II 1976-1986; Vol. III 1987-1997. pp. 591, 598, 524. First edition, Very good copies in dj.
WHERE DO YOU PUT THE HORSE, essays by... [Elmwood Park, Il: ] The Dalkey Archive Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo, pp. 165. VG in dj. Signed by Metcalf.
WHERE DO YOU PUT THE HORSE, essays by... [Elmwood Park, Il: ] The Dalkey Archive Press, 1986. First edition. 8vo, pp. 165. VG in dj. 1/ 26 copies, lettered and Signed by Metcalf.
PLAYERS, a documentary comedy-drama by … 8vo, 4 pages printed program signed by Metcalf and all the participants.
I-57. New Haven: LongRiver Books (1988) First edition. 8vo, pp. 159. 1/2000 paper bound copies. This copy signed by Metcalf.
MERRILL COVE. Minneapolis: Rain Taxi, 1998. First edition. Printed wraps. A very good copy. Signed by Metcalf
FROM QUARRY ROAD, uncollected essays and reviews of …preface by Jonathan Williams, edited with an introduction by Robert Buckeye. East Middlebury, VT: Amandia Publishing, 2002. First edition. 8vo, pp. 100. 1/300 copies printed. Inscribed by the editor Robert Buckeye. Item #60732
From Wikipedia: "Paul C. Metcalf (7 November 1917 – 21 January 1999) was an American writer. He wrote in verse and prose. Devoted admirers included Robert Creeley, William Gass, Wendell Berry, Guy Davenport, Howard Zinn, and Bruce Olds. His books include Will West (1956), Genoa (1965), Patagoni (1971), Apalache (1976), The Middle Passage (1976), Zip Odes (1979), and U.S. Dept. of the Interior (1980). From a citation of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, "One of several great grandchildren of Herman Melville, Paul Metcalf brilliantly accounted for his great forebear in his first major work, Genoa. In suceeding works ,,, Metcalf originated a genre of fiction which includes a montage of historic New World documentation mixed with poetry, an original mode of imaginative composition."
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