No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks (invented in Ireland c.1765), Meta-Fours (invented during the non-summer of 1985 in Lower Stodgedale) and Clerihews (invented in 1890 by Edmund Clerihew Bently) by a perdurable true descendant of Aristophanes and Catullus. With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1993. First edition. One of 150 copies on Sekishu in Shadwell hand-made paper wrappers. JW's own copy as noted by Walter Hamady, the publisher, who wrote on the colophon page: "Copy No. 55 for the Author, Walter Hamady 17 vi 93". Underneath that, further inscribed by JW: "and Jonathan Williams gives it to James Jaffe [JW's bibliographer]. Mint copy. With 2 pp. photocopied article by JW: "The Lord Fern-Evil. DRESCHER, Henrik. 12mo, wrappers,... Read More
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Imaginary Postcards. Texts by Jonathan Williams, With Notes & Afterword. Images by Tom Phillips
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan & Tom Phillips
London: Trigram Press, (1975). First edition, complete with erratum slip laid in stating: "As a result of a disagreement between the publishers and one of the authors over the design of this book, the publishers have decided not to publish it. Before this decision was reached 120 copies were bound, which are being distributed to friends of Trigram Press". Jaffe A87. Fine copy.. 8vo, original cloth, dust jacket designed by Phillips. Fine copy.
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The Kilpeck Anthology. Edited by Glenn Storhaug
by (WILLIAMS, Jonathan)
(Madley, Herefordshire): Five Seasons Press, 1981. First edition. One of 50 special copies designed, hand set & printed on Penhurst Light Toned handmade paper by Glenn Storhaug. With contributions by JW, Seamus Heaney, D. M. Thomas, among others. As new. 4to, illustrations by John Furnival, Alan Halsey, Caroline Hands, G. R. Lewis, Kenneth Lindley, Jeff Nuttall, Al Vandenberg, Enok Sweetland, & Brian Nevitt, pictorial endpapers, quarter morocco & linen, linen slipcase. As new.
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Aposiopeses (Odds & Ends). Frontispiece Drawing by R. B. Kitaj
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Minneapolis: Granary Books, 1988. First edition. One of 64 hardbound copies on Frankfurt White signed by JW and Kitaj, out of a total edition of 165 copies. Jaffe A172. Very fine copy. KITAJ, R B. Tall 8vo, original cloth-backed boards with printed cover label. Very fine copy.
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Mahler
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
N. Y.: Cape Goliard Press in association with Grossman Publishers, (1969). Second edition. Signed by JW. Foot of spine a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy in glassine worn along the top & bottom edges.. KITAJ, R B. 8vo, title page illustration by R. B. Kitaj, boards, glassine dust jacket. Foot of spine a little bumped, otherwise a fine copy in glassine worn along the top & bottom edges.
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Polycotyledonous poems
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Stuttgart, Germany): edition hansjorg mayer, 1967. First edition. One of 1000 copies. Jaffe A40. Fine copy.. Folio, one sheet folded into eighths. Fine copy.
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No-No Nse-Nse. Limericks . . . Meta-Fours . . . and Clerihews . . . With seventeen apropos illustrations by Henrik Drescher
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin: Perishable Press, 1993. First edition of this collection of bawdy nonsense. Limited to 150 copies printed on handmade Sekishu paper and signed by the printer/publisher. Williams has annotated the colophon page: "Highlands Copy / No. 64 - 4/JW. Fine copy. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers. Fine copy.
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Five From Up T'Dale
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
(Corn Close: Finial Press in Great Britain, 1974). First edition, illustrated with prints by A. D. Moore, the printer. Limited to only 50 numbered copies signed by Williams and Moore. Fine copy. Square folio, loose sheets in portfolio. Fine copy.
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Sappho. A Translation by William Carlos Williams
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
San Francisco: Poems in Folio, 1957. First edition. With a separate note written by the poet. One of 150 copies on handmade paper signed by Williams, out of a total edition of 1150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Fine copy.. Broadside poem, with separate note. With a separate note written by the poet. One of 150 copies on handmade paper signed by Williams, out of a total edition of 1150 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Fine... Read More
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Two Poems. Two Drawings (by) William Zorach
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(No place): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition, containing "Advent of Today" & "The Girl". Limited to 500 copies. Wallace B27. Ronald Lane Latimer's copy, with his signature & the note "The Alcestis Press, 29V37" on the copyright page. Latimer's Alcestis Press published two of Williams's books, An Early Martyr (1935) & Adam & Eve & The City (1936). Lower right corner of front wrapper creased, otherwise a fine copy.. 8vo, green wrappers with printed label. Lower right corner... Read More
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A Novelette And Other Prose (1921-1931)
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(Toulon, France): To Publishers, (1932). First edition. One of approximately 500 copies printed. Wallace A12. To Publishers represented the group of Objectivist poets which included Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and Basil Bunting. A list of a few books it intended to publish appears on the inside back wrapper. Faint traces of the usual discoloration toward the edges of the back wrapper, otherwise an unusually fine copy of this fragile book, in a custom-made cloth slipcase. 8vo, original... Read More
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Two Poems. Two Drawings (by) William Zorach
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(No place): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition, containing "Advent of Today" & "The Girl". Limited to 500 copies. Wallace B27. [It is not clear to me why the bibliographer assigns this pamphlet secondary status]. Very fine copy. 8vo, original green wrappers with printed label. Very fine copy.
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The Clouds, Aigeltinger, Russia, &c
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(MA): Wells College Press & Cummington Press, 1948. First edition. One of 60 Roman-numeraled copies on hand-made paper signed by Williams, out of a total edition of 310 copies (the regular copies were printed on an all-rag paper & not signed). Wallace A26. Fine copy in slipcase. Although the regular issue of The Clouds is fairly common, the signed issue is rare; we have only handled two copies. 8vo, original cloth with printed spine label, publisher's slipcase. Fine... Read More
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The Knife of the Times and Other Stories
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Ithaca, N. Y.: Dragon Press, (1932). First edition. One of 500 copies printed (the entire edition). Wallace A13. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. Williams' first book of short stories, The Knife of the Times is "all about people I knew in the town, portraits of people who were my friends. I was impressed by the picture of the times, depression years, the plight of the poor . . . I wrote it down as I saw... Read More
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In The American Grain
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
N. Y.: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. First edition of Williams' first trade publication. Wallace A9. Signed and dated at the time of publication on the front free endpaper by the author: "William Carlos Williams, Dec. 5, 1925." One of Williams' most important prose works, an imaginative appropriation of America: "only by making it my own from the beginning to my own day, in detail, should I ever have a basis for knowing where I stood" (Letter to Horace... Read More
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Sour Grapes. A Book of Poems
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Boston: Four Seas Company, 1921. First edition. One of 1000 copies printed. Wallace A5. Sour Grapes includes "To Waken An Old Lady", "The Widow's Lament in Springtime" and "Queen-Ann's-Lace", among Williams' best poems. Boards lightly rubbed at extremities, an inch-long and 3/8 inch at its widest marginal chip in the fore-edge of one leaf (not affecting text), otherwise a fine copy in the rare dust jacket which is nicked and slightly chipped in a few places, with a 1... Read More
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A Voyage To Pagany
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
N. Y.: The Macaulay Company, 1928. First edition of Williams' first serious novel, an autobiographical recreation of an American's first trip to Europe, dedicated to Ezra Pound: "To the first of us all, my old friend . . ." Wallace A10. Louis Zukofsky's copy, with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper, dated 1928. In 1932, Zukofsky, along with other Objectivist poets including Ezra Pound, formed To Publishers, which published Williams' A Novelette And Other Prose (1921-1931). With... Read More
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The Complete Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, (1938). First edition, limited issue. One of only 50 copies printed on Hazelbourn paper at the Walpole Printing Office and signed by Williams. Wallace A20b. A fine copy. Large 8vo, original blue cloth, t.e.g. A fine copy.
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Two Poems. Two Drawings (by) William Zorach
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(No place): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition, containing "Advent of Today" & "The Girl". Limited to 500 copies. Wallace B27. It is not clear to me why the bibliographer assigns this pamphlet secondary status. Very fine copy, in a custom-made cloth slipcase. 8vo, green wrappers with printed label. Very fine copy, in a custom-made cloth slipcase.
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Paterson (Books 1-5)
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(N. Y.): New Directions, (1946-1958). First editions of all five parts of Williams' magnum opus, the first four parts limited to 1000 copies, the fifth to 3000. Wallace A24, 25, 30, 34 and 44; Connolly 100. A near-fine set of Williams's magnum opus, with minor soiling. 5 volumes, 8vos, original cloth, dust jackets. A near-fine set of Williams's magnum opus, with minor soiling.
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The Wedge. (Title-page decoration by Wightman Williams)
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(Cummington, MA): Cummington Press, 1944. First edition. One of 380 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Dacian paper. Wallace A23. A diminutive but significant volume, which includes "Paterson: The Falls", "The Dance (In Breughel's great picture)", "The Semblables" and "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven", in addition to Williams' important introduction, a brief "Ars Poetica. Arthur Mizener's copy, with his tiny book-label on the front endsheet, spine very slightly faded, with a touch of wear at the... Read More
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The Cod Head
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(No place, but San Francisco, CA): The Harvest Press, (no date but 1932). First edition, revised from previous periodical publication appearances. According to the bibliographer, there were 125 copies printed; this one however is a variant of 100 copies printed "for the friends of Milton Abernethy." Wallace notes only a signed issue, which is described as having "Gray-green rough paper covers" and a "white aper label printed in black." The present copy is unsigned, and it is not bound.... Read More
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Two Poems. Two Drawings (by) William Zorach
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
(No place): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition, containing "Advent of Today" & "The Girl". Limited to 500 copies. Wallace B27. [It is not clear to me why the bibliographer assigns this pamphlet secondary status]. Very fine copy, in a handsome half-morocco slipcase with leather label on the spine. 8vo, original green wrappers with printed label. Very fine copy, in a handsome half-morocco slipcase with leather label on the spine.
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ALS, 12 pages, The Imperial Hotel, Russell Square, London, to George W. McCoy of the Asheville Citizen, November 8, 1924
by WOLFE, Thomas
The letter, written on The Imperial Hotel's illustrated letterhead, is smudged in places, with light soiling at the margins. Enclosed in a folding cloth chemise. Published in The Letters of Thomas Wolfe. Edited with an Introduction by Elizabeth Nowell. (N. Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956), pp. 71-73. A magnificent letter concerning an essay which he was drafting entitled "A Passage to England" that he hoped McCoy would publish in the Asheville Citizen Times. Wolfe was twenty-four at the... Read More
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A Letter To A Young Poet
by WOOLF, Virginia
London: Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Very good copy.. 12mo, original decorated wrappers. Very good copy.
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