The collected later poems of William Carlos Williams

[Norfolk, Conn.]: New Directions, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Separately printed 8-leaf pamphlet entitled The Rose laid in. Original cloth-backed publisher’s boards; a fine copy. First edition, with the Horace Mann School binding. The inserted pamphlet consists of a group of poems that were accidentally omitted in the first printing due to an oversight by the typist. Poems include A rosebush is an unlikely garden, The birdsong and Writer’s prologue to a play in verse. Wallace, A31.