The Great American Novel
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Paris: Three Mountains Press, 1923. First, Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies, this being copy no.211. Tall octavo (27cm); grey paper-covered boards and sage green cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; [8],9-79,[1]pp. Light wear to corners, some of the usual darkening to board edges, with the usual offsetting to endpapers; there is no rectangular slip covering the name of the press on the title page (present in some copies, with no priority noted by the... Read More
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The Stecher Trilogy: White Mule, In The Money, The Build-Up
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk and New York: New Directions and Random House, 1937-1952. First Editions. 1. White Mule. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1937. First Edition, First Printing, one of 1,100 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; black topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[1]-293,[3]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, some offsetting to endpapers, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, panels a little less so, with mild dust-soil, light external wear,... Read More
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Something to Say: Willilam Carlos Williams to Younger Poets
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos; James E.B. Breslin (ed)
New York: New Directions, 1985. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 280pp. Tight, unmarked copy; Fine. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $23.95 on front flap), crisp and clean, very Near Fine. A new-appearing copy. From the library of noted poet and translator Nathaniel Tarn, with his printed bookplate inside front cover.
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Flowers of August
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos (poems); ACHEPOHL, Keith (drawings)
Iowa City: University of Iowa, 1983. First, Limited Edition. One of 260 copies. Square quarto; hunter green cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and flowers embossed on front panel; [28pp]; illus. A Fine copy without dustjacket, as issued. The first time Williams' sequence of poems has been published since they were anthologized in Others Magazine (1919).
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The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
New York: Random House, 1951. First edition. First printing. Octavo; blue cloth in dust jacket; 402pp. Tight, clean, Near Fine copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.75 on front flap), complete but slightly rubbed and creased at edges; Very Good.
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The Collected Later Poems
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1965. First U.K. Edition. Octavo. Cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 276pp. A Fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced 25s net at base of front flap), crisp and unworn, retaining excellent color on the spine panel; Near Fine. The first U.K. edition, from the New DIrections revised edition of 1963. A practically new-appearing copy.
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Life Along the Passaic River
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1938. First Edition. First Printing, one of 1,006 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); beige cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; black topstain; dustjacket; [vi],[3],4-201,[1]pp. Hint of sunning to spine, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.75), with gentle sunning to spine, a few tiny foxed spots, and a tiny tear to lower rear flap fold; Near Fine. A well-preserved copy of this collection of 19 short stories, a... Read More
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William Carlos Williams, John Sanford: A Correspondence
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos & John Sanford (pseud. of Julian Shapiro)
Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (22.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-53,[5]pp. Faint foxing to text edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $17.00), with trivial wear to extremities. Collection of correspondence between Williams and Sanford, with a foreword by Paul Mariani, and commentary by Sanford.
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The Broken Span [Signed]
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. First Printing, in Wallace's first binding (one of 300 copies of a total 2,000-copy run). Octavo (23.25cm); gray paper-covered boards printed in black and fuchsia on front cover; [32]pp. While not called for, this copy has been signed by Williams in a contemporary hand at upper front endpaper. Sunning to spine, spine ends worn, darkening to upper and lower board edges, with some offsetting to pastedowns, and a hint of foxing to... Read More
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The Cod Head [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
San Francisco: Harvest Press, 1932. First, Limited Edition. One of 125 copies. Slim octavo (25.5cm); jade green printed sheets, stapled into hand-made grayish-green paper wrappers, with title label mounted to upper front cover; [8]pp. Signed by Williams on lower margin of p.6, with one word struck through in the same color ink (presumably in his hand). Very faint crease to upper right corner of front flap, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. "The poem was first published in... Read More
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INTREPID #17: Of Love, Abiding Love
by [WILLIAMS, William CarlOS] Mazzaro, Jerome
Buffalo: Intrepid Press, 1970. First edition. One of 1,200 copies printed. Stapled photograpic covers; small 8vo. 54pp. Eight photos of WCW. Very Good in illustrated wraps. Entire contents based on two essays about Williams Carlos Williams given by the author at the Univerisity of Parma in 1969.
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The Broken Span
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition. First printing, wrappered issue (total edition was 2000, with 300 in boards). Stiff wraps in gray paper wrappers printed in black and fuschia. Very Good in Very Good, slight edge-toned dustwrapper. In the publisher's "Poet of the Month" series. Includes fifteen poems later appearing in Volume 1 of "Paterson" (1946). Wallace A22.
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The Knife of the Times and Other Stories
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Ithaca, NY: The Dragon Press, 1932. First Edition. First Printing, one of 500 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); blue-grey cloth, with cream printed title labels mounted to upper spine and front cover; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-164pp. Trivial wear to lower board edges, hint of offsetting to endpapers, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), showing a hint of sunning to spine and minute wear to upper spine panel; very Near Fine. With the publisher's original glassine overlay, similarly gently spine-sunned... Read More
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I Wanted to Write a Poem
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1958. First American Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's brown cloth titled in white to spine. Dustjacket. [ix]; 99pp. A little light wear to the edges, minor bumping to spine ends, clean and tight; internally clean and fresh; in a bright, clean example of the dustjacket with some marginal creasing, sunning, and scuffing, with some light, shallow chipping to the head of spine. A very good copy, with a little shelfwear. An unusual volume, in... Read More
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A Novelette and Other Prose (1921-1931)
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Toulon: To Publishers, 1932. First Edition. First Printing, one of ca.500 copies. Octavo (22.5cm); original jade green printed wrappers; [7],8-125,[2]pp. Gentle sunning to spine and wrapper edges, a few tiny nicks and tears to extremities, with a thin 2" chip to left edge of rear wrapper, and some of the usual subtle tanning to text edges; majority of the pages are unopened; Very Good+, housed in a custom clamshell case. A well-preserved copy of this brittle and poorly-made... Read More
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The Desert Music and Other Poems [Limited Edition, Signed]
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
New York: Random House, 1954. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author, this being copy no.68. Octavo (24cm); sage green paper-covered boards and beige cloth backstrip, with printed title label mounted to spine; publisher's original paper-covered slipcase; [xii],[3],4-90,[4]pp. Fine in a Very Good+ slipcase, lightly toned and edgeworn, but sharp-cornered and perfectly sound. Lacking the original glassine dustjacket. A collection of poems Wallace wrote just before, and just after recovering... Read More
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A Beginning on the Short Story
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Yonkers: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950. First Edition. One of 750 copies. Slim octavo; stapled wrappers; 23pp. Hint of sunning to extremities, else Fine. An address delivered in the Fall of 1950 to students of the University of Washington, in Seattle.
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SELECTED LETTERS
by Williams, William Carlos [and] Laughlin, James
New York: Norton, 1989. First edition. Black cloth in dustjacket; 8vo. 293 pp. w/ index. Approximately 150 letters. An interesting look at one of the most important relationships between publisher and writer of the twentieth century. With a useful index that includes separate sections for individual books, poems, and stories. Other than bumps to head and tail of the spine, with resulting crimping to the dustjacket, quite Fine.
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IN THE MONEY: White Mule - Part II
by Williams, William Carlos
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. First edition. Blue cloth in dustjacket; 8vo. Very near fine copy with light toning, in a bright complete dustjacket with a few small chips and three closed tears in the center area of the dustjacket. Previous owner's name on ffep. Presents very nicely. 1500 copies printed. WALLACE A21a.
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A Voyage to Pagany
by WILLIAMS, William Carlos
New York: Macaulay Company, 1928. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Edgar Williams, brown topstain; vi,[9]-338pp. Jacket extremities quite chipped and worn with two long tears to top edge of upper panel touching text without loss of meaning, old yellowing tape repair to versos, corners bumped, else Near Very Good in a Good only jacket. Autobiographical travel novel. WALLACE A10.
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Growing Up in a London Village: Family Life Between the Wars
by WILLMOTT, Phyllis
London: Peter Owen, [1979]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original simulated cloth in green dust jacket lettered in red and white; 143pp. Light shelf wear, minor discoloration to upper jacket panel, else Very Good or better. Memoirs of growing up in the middle-class London suburb of Lee during the Depression.
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A Green Girl
by WILLMOTT, Phyllis
London: Peter Owen, 1983. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 144pp. Old price sticker to front interior flap of jacket. Mild age-toning to margins of jacket and textblock, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Minor shelf wear to jacket. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Autobiography of author's adolescence in a girls' grammar school and early adulthood in pre-WW2 England.
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A Gentleman Decides
by WILLNER, Sis; Carl Sandburg, pref.; Samuel Putnam, "postface
Chicago: The Black Archer Press, 1931. First Edition. Slim octavo (22cm.); original paper-covered boards in white decorative dust jacket; 78pp. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed and toned, small closed tear to spine foot with old tape repair to verso, longer shallow loss along top edge of rear panel not affecting text; boards a bit rubbed along edges, else Very Good and sound overall. Poetry collection by the Chicago society columnist who also published under the pseudonym Dorothy Dearborn. ... Read More
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Handbook for Conscientious Objectors
by [WILLOUGHBY, George [Ed.]
Philadelphia, PA: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors, 1960. Revised Edition. Octavo. 20cm. Publisher's tan card wraps titled in dark brown to front wrap. 112pp. A little light soiling and discoloration to the pale card wraps; internally clean with some rusting to the staples. A very good copy. A guide to the legal status and standing of conscientious objectors, with advice on how to declare your intent, the preparation for doing so to avoid undue punishment, how to... Read More
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Unaccustomed to Fear: a Biography of the Late General Roy S. Geiger
by WILLOCK, Roger
Quantico: Marine Corps Association, 1987. Facsimile reprint of the privately-published 1968 edition. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; xxviii,321pp; illus. Includes bibliography. 4-line ink ownership inscription to front pastedown: "H.S. Claybaugh/Sgt in Geiger's Squadron in France & Belgium/WWI - 1918." Otherwise tight, fine and unmarked. In the pictorial dustwrapper, lightly worn at extremities, Near Fine.
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