johnathan williams (8 résultats)

Etat : New.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Etat : Fine. First Edition. 1/100 copies, cover illustrated by Willard Midgette. SIGNED by Williams on the title page. Produced on a Xerox copier and bound in plastic cover. Fine copy.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Not everyone who leads is prepared to carry others. And not everyone who carries the weight of others understands what it costs. Bridges is a reflective exploration of leadership, influence, and responsibility, told through the structures that quite literally connect one place to another. Drawing on the design, tension, and purpose of bridges, this book examines what it means to support others, absorb pressure, and create safe passage without collapsing under the load. Rather than offering formulas or step-by-step leadership models, Bridges invites readers into thoughtful reflections on perception, integrity, emotional maturity, and the unseen consequences of how we lead. Each chapter uses a different bridge structure as a lens to explore the balance between strength and flexibility, influence and control, ambition and alignment. This book is for leaders who are less interested in being impressive and more concerned with being structurally sound. For those willing to examine not just where they are leading others, but whether they themselves are built to hold what they are asking others to cross. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Offering: Kenneth Patchen. Poemscapes. Highlands, NC: Johnathan Williams, 1958. Limited edition. 68 of 75 created by Patchen. Good+ in hand-painted boards that show some wear from handling -- probably Patchen's as he created it. Previous owner's name, as well as an interesting gift inscription. See the extended book description below. By the late 1950s, Kenneth Patchen had moved beyond the printed word and into a deeply personal, visual form of poetry. Confined to bed by worsening spinal injuries, Patchen began painting directly onto books wild, joyful, and deeply strange expressions that fused image and verse into a kind of illuminated manuscript for the atomic age. These painted books became his most intimate works: not mass produced, not repeatable, not replicable. With every stroke and figure, Patchen rejected commercialism, embraced the handmade, and elevated his artists' books into a medium of protest, prayer, and play. His collaboration with publisher Jonathan Williams a fellow iconoclast, Black Mountain alum and founder of the Jargon Society gave us Poemscapes, a raw, unguarded volume of short poetic meditations as vivid as the artwork that would eventually accompany them. This is one of only 75 hand-painted copies of Poemscapes, each uniquely prepared, painted and signed by Patchen. The covers and endpapers have been transformed into a riot of color: swirling figures, surreal beasts, abstracted eyes, and bursts of shape that seem both childlike and cosmic -- as well as Patchen's hand-painted colophon: this copy being number 68. The binding and tops/bottoms of the painted boards show expected wear from its handmade origins, but the boards remain bold, textured, and vibrant. Very few of these painted Patchen books surface on the market, and each is one-of-a-kind. A true convergence of outsider art, poetry, and the book as an object of art. And here's where it gets interesting: the book's inscription on the FFEP by 'Margaret' (note previous owner's name "M. Hollenbach") to 'John & Chigiy', with the heartfelt note: 'knowing that the best of it was written for them.' The context suggests a meaningful association within the circle of Patchen or his collectors. It's worth noting that Patchen's hand-painted books were often sold directly to collectors, friends, or patrons. Signed by Author(s).

Unpaginated, though 12 pp. "Set by hand & printed by the Windhover Press, Short Hills, NJ June 1956" 8-7/8" x 6" McClure "was an American poet, playwright, songwriter, and novelist. After moving to San Francisco as a young man, he found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955, which was rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums. He soon became a key member of the Beat Generation and was immortalized as Pat McLear in Kerouac's Big Sur." This the author's rare first publication, hardly ever seen in the trade, last coming to auction in the early 80s. Some modest wear & age-toning. Very Good. Pale blue paper covers printed in black, sewn with green thread. Cover design by Williams. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve 1st Printing (Lepper, p. 295). Limited to 200 cc.

4to, pp. 24. Self wraps in a plastic binder. Inscribed by the author for Paul and Nancy Metcalf: "For the Ives of Chester from the Wrath of gawd Highlands May 1975." A nice copy. Produced on a Xerox 4000 in an edition of 100 copies for friends.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Not everyone who leads is prepared to carry others. And not everyone who carries the weight of others understands what it costs. Bridges is a reflective exploration of leadership, influence, and responsibility, told through the structures that quite literally connect one place to another. Drawing on the design, tension, and purpose of bridges, this book examines what it means to support others, absorb pressure, and create safe passage without collapsing under the load. Rather than offering formulas or step-by-step leadership models, Bridges invites readers into thoughtful reflections on perception, integrity, emotional maturity, and the unseen consequences of how we lead. Each chapter uses a different bridge structure as a lens to explore the balance between strength and flexibility, influence and control, ambition and alignment. This book is for leaders who are less interested in being impressive and more concerned with being structurally sound. For those willing to examine not just where they are leading others, but whether they themselves are built to hold what they are asking others to cross. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.