BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS - INSCRIBED TO JONATHAN WILLIAMS

by Kenneth Rexroth

$375 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: New Directions Books, 1951. First Edition. Sharp copy of this collection of four plays Phaedra, Hermaios, Iphigenia, and Berenike , issued as No.20 in The Direction Series. Warmly inscribed to Jonathan Williams 1929-2008 , who first wrote to Rexroth as a dropout from Princeton, looking for advice about avoiding the draft. Within two years he made his way to Black Mountain, where he founded the Jargon Society,

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