Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Lot 338

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. 1883-1963.
Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1946-1958.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
New York

Sold for US$1,402.50 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Books & Manuscripts specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. 1883-1963.

Paterson. New York: New Directions, 1946-1958.
5 volumes. Publisher's cloth, printed dust jackets, Part V with pencil portrait of Williams reproduced on front panel. Wear and browning to jacket corners, Parts I and III with slight chipping at jacket folds.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES of the first four parts (Part V published with no limitation statement). In the preface of Part I, Williams describes this work as "a long poem in four parts." Nonetheless, Part V was published in 1958, some seven years after Part IV, and twelve years from the initial publication. Connolly Modern Movement, 100; Wallace A24, A25, A30, A34, A44.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

Signed to Spencer Tracy 1952 Hemingway, Ernest. 1899-1961. The Old Man and the Sea, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952.

A Presentation Copy of Kennedy's First Book to Spencer Tracy. Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963. Why England Slept. New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1940.

CORNELIUS, MATTHEWS, editor. 1817-1889. The Enchanted Moccasins and Other Legends of the American Indians.