The Art of Worldly Wisdom
Sausalito, CA: Golden Goose Press, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. 117 pp. Good in original cloth-backed, paper-covered boards with toning and foxing to text block edges and a spot of rubbing visible through dust jacket, and a poor pictorial dust jacket with toning, sunning to spine, and a large chunk plus some isolated spots where a bookworm has chewed through the jacket. Good / Poor. Item #8095
Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Rexroth to Jonathan Williams of the Jargon Society. This copy came from the Scaly Mountain home of Jonathan Williams. Additionally, the publishing history for this edition is mentionable as the sheets used for binding came from an earlier, unsuccessful Decker edition. Two prefaces and an errata sheet chronicle the history in more detail. A unique copy!
Price: $175.00