{Judson Crews & Co.}

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Mason Jordan Mason
THE YARDARM OF MURPHEY’S KITE
(Ranches of Taos: Motive Press, 1956)
First edition, 4to., [48] pp. Introduction by Chris Bjerknes, “Mason Jordan Mason: An Appreciation”. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in blue on front. Additional magazine images throughout. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique. [Some have suggested that Mason Jordan Mason is a pseudonym for Judson Crews who admitedly used several pseudonyms. See biographical sketch.]

Judson Crews, editor
POETRY TAOS, Number One.
(Ranches of Taos: n.p., 1957)
First edition, 4to., [64] pp. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in blue on front. Numerous similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique. Introduction by Judson Crews. Contributors include: Wolcott Ely, Gaston Criell, William Carlos Williams, Mason Jordan Mason, Robert Creeley, Robert Burdette, Max Fenstein, Hyacinthe Hill, Joseph Foster, Cerise Farallon, Judson Crews, Donn Cantonwine, Murry Moore, Wendell B. Anderson.

Judson Crews
TO WED BENEATH THE SUN.
([Taos]: n.p., [1958])
First edition, 8vo., [28] pp. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in blue on front, plus two similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique.

Judson Crews
THE FEEL OF SUN & AIR UPON HER BODY.
(Eureka: Hearse Press, [1960])
First edition, 8vo., [32] pp. One of 125 unnumbered copies, published as the tenth chapbook in the HEARSE CHAPBOOK series. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in green on front, plus two similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique.

Judson Crews
HERMES PAST THE HOUR.
(Tsaos: Este Es Press, 1963)
First edition, 8vo., [42] pp. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in silver on front, plus two similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique.

Judson Crews
YOU MARK ANTHONY, NAVIGATOR UPON THE NILE.
([Taos]: n.p., [1964])
First edition, 8vo., [62] pp. One of 500 numbered copies, signed. White, plastic comb binding with decorated board covers. Photographs cut from magazines on both sides of covers, with title and author name letterpress printed in silver on front, plus two similar leaves in text. The images appear to come from nudist, girly, travel, and other magazines. Each copy presumably is unique.

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Biographical information

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Note: Bibliographic and biographic information taken from, among other sources, Wendell Anderson’s THE HEART’S PRECISION (Carson: Dumont Press, 1994).