American book collector. Vol. XIX, No. 7.
[Chicago]: [W.B. Thorsen], March, 1969. Folio. 31 pp. Original printed wrappers. Contains White’s bibliographical piece on Williams, with his commentary. More
[Chicago]: [W.B. Thorsen], March, 1969. Folio. 31 pp. Original printed wrappers. Contains White’s bibliographical piece on Williams, with his commentary. More
Yonkers, New York: The Alicat Bookshop Press, 1950. 8vo. [iv], 5-23 pp. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. A fine copy in the original printed wrappers. A beginning on the short story. [Notes]. [np]: [np], [1950]. 8vo. 24 ff. Unbound. Browned and fragile. First edition and uncorrected proof sheets..... More
New York: Random House, [1952]. 8vo. [vi], 335 pp. FIRST EDITION. Cloth-backed publisher’s boards, in original dust-jacket; 2 small chips to lower panel, otherwise a fine copy. First edition of this novel. “The build-up is a success story. Its account of the triumph of an immigrant family during the early..... More
[n.p.]: Harvest Press, [c. 1932]. 8vo. LIMITED EDITION. Uncorrected proof sheet, pale blue paper, folded once. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed at the Harvest Press for the friends of Milton Abernethy. This copy has neither the place nor the date printed on the title, and the dedication and..... More
[Norfolk, Conn.]: New Directions, [1950]. 8vo. [xvi], 240 pp. 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..... More
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. 8vo. [viii], 235 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Black cloth, lightly worn. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition, first issue, of this collection of essays, mostly historical in nature. Titles include Red Eric, Sir Walter Raleigh and Jacataqua. “In these studies I have..... More
Boston: The Four Seas Company, 1920. 8vo. 86 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed boards, lightly browned, with fragments of the original fragile dust-jacket laid in. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. First edition. One of Williams’ favorite works, he described the writing of it as follows: “I decided that I would write..... More
New York: Random House, [1950]. 8vo. ix, [i], 342 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Gray publisher’s cloth, in original dust-jacket, minor chipping. Inscription from Williams “Purchased by my dear friends: Madeline & Drew - no kiddin’. with my love, Bill. alias William Carlos Williams. 12/7/50.”. WITH A SERIOUS INSCRIPTION. First..... More
Norfolk, Conn. New Directions, 1937. 8vo. [viii], 293, [3] pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title and page of publisher’s advertisements. Publisher’s cloth, in the original dust-jacket. First edition of this novel about the American dream. “White mule is the story of a plain American family of immigrant origin in pre-war New..... More
[n.p.]: [n.p.], Autumn, 1934. 8vo. 64 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Contains the first and only appearance of Williams’ essay Reply to a young scientist berating me because of my devotion to a matter of words. Also contains works by Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Richard Aldington and many..... More
Buffalo: [n.p.], 1970. 8vo. 54, [1] pp. FIRST EDITION. With 4 leaves of photographic plates. A fine copy in the original pictorial wrappers. First edition of this short biography of William Carlos Williams, containing many previously unpublished photographs. More
[Athens, Georgia]: [University of Georgia], Winter, 1980. 8vo. [vi], pp. 711-936, [8]. With 7 leaves of photographic plates. Original pictorial wrappers. Contains Perloff’s essay, The man who loved women: The medical fictions of William Carlos Williams. Established in 1947, The Georgia Review quickly came to be known as one of..... More
Boston: Bruce Humphries, 1937. 8vo. 80, [1] pp., FIRST EDITION. including half-title. Two-tone cloth, in original pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy signed by the author. First edition, number 11 of 500. Contains an introduction by William Carlos Williams on pages 7-10. Titles include You walk like Egypt; This is the..... More
New York: Peter J. Ryan, February, 1962. Folio. 80 pp. Text illustrations throughout. Original pictorial wrappers, a few small chips; one section of interior lightly browned, otherwise a clean copy. Contains Williams’ complete play Many loves. Wallace, C311. More
Chicago: [Ralph Fletcher], [1917]. 8vo. viii, [ii], 332 pp. FIRST EDITION. Title in red and black. With 4 plates. Original green publisher’s cloth. An uncut and for the most part unopened copy. First edition. Contains Williams’ poems Love song, Naked, Marriage, Apology, Summer song, and The old worshipper, as well..... More
Highlands: Highlands:, 1960. 8vo. [lxxiv] pp. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy in the original pictorial wrappers. First edition of this collection of poems first written in the common Roman dialect of the nineteenth century, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Contains an introduction by Williams: “. . . these..... More
New York: Random House, [1938]. 8vo. 448 pp., FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. including index. Two-tone publisher’s cloth, in original dust-jacket. First edition, first printing. Contains Williams’ poem The Yachts on page 361. Also includes works by Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, E.E. Cummings and many others. Rodman..... More
[n.p.]: Macgibbon & Lee, [1966]. 8vo. 352 pp. Brown publisher’s boards, in original light-blue dust-jacket. Later edition of this novel. A continuation of Williams’ earlier book, White Mule. In the money picks up a few years later, with the Stecher family starting to prosper once they’ve settled in after the..... More