WILLIAMS, William Carlos

In the American grain.

New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1925. 8vo. [viii], 235 pp. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Black cloth, lightly worn. Ownership inscription to fly-leaf. Item #11605

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 sought to rename the things seen, now lost in a chaos of borrowed titles, many of them inappropriate, under which the true character lies hid.” Wallace, A9.

Price: $175.00