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2 William Everson Books Inscribed to His Wife

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2 William Everson Books Inscribed to His Wife
<B>Brother Antoninus (William Everson) <I>Two books inscribed to Susana Rickson, the author's third wife. Everson was one of the San Francisco Renaissance poets (the Beats) and a member of the Dominican Order. After meeting Rickson he renounced his Dominican calling and married her shortly thereafter.</B></I></B></I><BR><BR>The first book is <I>The Springing of the Blade - Poems of Nineteen forty-seven</B></I> (Reno: The Black Rock Press, 1968), first edition, one of 180 copies, not paginated, folio (10" x 13"), bound by hand press in green cloth, and in very good condition. Everson has inscribed the front free endpaper "<I>For Susana beloved friend from Brother Antoninus Pentacost [sic] Sunday June 2, 1968 Kentfield Priary [sic]</B></I>" and signed the book with his full signature on the second front free endpaper.<BR><BR>The second book is <I>The Last Crusade With a Note to the Poem by the Author</B></I> (Berkeley: Graham Macintosh, 1969), first edition, copy number 1 of 165 numbered signed copies, 25 pages, folio (10" x 13"), bound in beige cloth with vellum spine, and in very good condition. Everson has inscribed the front free endpaper "<I>This the first copy of The Last Crusade is for my beloved new wife Susana in whose hands I place my life December 30, 1969 William Everson</B></I>". There is a full Brother Antoninus signature on the colophon page.
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