The Great American Novel

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 bibliographer); Very Good+.

An early book by Williams, in a short-lived series edited by Ezra Pound. Williams describes the book as "a satire on the novel form in which a little (female) Ford car falls more ore less in love with a Mack truck" (see WALLACE A6a). 88070.