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WILLIAMS, William Carlos. A Novelette and Other Prose (1921-1931). TO Publishers, (Paris), 1932.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition [Wallace A12; "about 500 copies printed"]. Octavo. 126pp. Printed wrappers. An extremely fragile publication, the delicate covers have detached on front and rear, with a number of moderate chips at extremities of covers; text is lightly browned (as usual), with slight chipping at tips of corner of last few pages of text; a fair to good only copy. The rear cover prints an announcement of future publications by this publisher, including works by Basil Bunting and Ezra Pound.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: An uncut and partially unopened copy in the original printed wrappers. First edition, containing several poems, essays and stories many of which were to later appear in periodicals. "While tearing around tending the sick I've composed a novelette in praise of my wife whom I have gotten to know again. . . ." [taken from an unpublished letter printed in Wallace]. Wallace, A12.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$540.61 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original grey-green printed wrappers, torn with slight loss to rear cover. A very good bright copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$569.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 9 x 5.5", wraps, 127pp, covers unevenly sunned, extremities lightly chipped and torn, pp toned with small foredge tears, but still a remarkably unopened copy of this SCARCE title. FIRST EDITION (Wallace A12), SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, WHO ADDS "full of typographical errors" WITH HIS INITIALS BELOW.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, c. 500cc. A Fine copy in tan wrappers. Signatures uncut. 127pp. Extremities of covers and edges of text stock toned. Scarce in any condition. Q15670
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original printed wrappers. Faint traces of tanning toward the edges of the back wrapper, otherwise an unusually fine, bright copy of this fragile book. Faint traces of tanning toward the edges of the back wrapper, otherwise an unusually fine, bright copy of this fragile book First edition. One of approximately 500 copies printed. Wallace A12. To Publishers represented the group of Objectivist poets which included Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and Basil Bunting. A list of a few books it intended to publish appears on the inside back wrapper.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.