The Knife of the Times and Other Stories

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 with corresponding wear at upper spine; Near Fine.

Williams's first collection of short fiction, gathering 11 stories, published by Angel Flores's Dragon Press. "The stories are 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 it. The times - that was the knife that was killing them" (see WALLACE A13). 88425.