Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1st printing - no dust jacket - minor tanning to page edge - slight mark on cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ix, 99 pp. ; dark orange cloth with white lettering ; no dustjacket ; text in black and red ; Williams is shown copies of his works in chronological order and asked to comment on them ; VG
Seller: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good/Good. Bound in brown cloth whith white titles. Book is clean and shows no use. Jacket is not price clipped - shows light scuffing to edges and wear to the ends of the spine. Top of rear panel has a 1/2" tear and some wrinkling
Seller: Legacy, Sussex, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ix, [3], 99 pp., Text printed in black and red. brown cloth over board, white spine title, Red and black geometrical design on dust jacket. Book fine and clean; dust jacket price clipped and frayed at top and lower edge, with some loss, some scraping.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in carob brown cloth stamped in white, in a Veery Good faded red, white and black dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with some loss to spine-ends. 99pp. Printed in red and black inks. Text and endpapers otherwise clean and unmarked. A collection of comments by Williams on each of his published books, up through the Selected Letters of 1957. Q14803
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good; bound in red cloth covered boards; with a Good dust jacket. Areas of loss, tears and creasing to jacket. Some toning, rubbing and edge wear to exterior. Previous owner inscription on front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. ; 8vo. 9 1/4"h x 6 1/4"w.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. I Wanted to Write a Poem. Beacon, Boston, 1958.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, published by The Beacon Press in 1958. The autobiography of the works of a poet. Reported and edited by Edith Heal. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities and a half inch tear to the upper corner of the front panel.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this retrospective "autobiography of the works of a poet," a collection of interviews with editor Edith Heal. Williams recounts the stories behind the writing and publication of his major works, with occasional wry interjections from his wife Florence, better known as "Floss": "We used to laugh . . . at how often Bill appeared in the last issue of a magazine. As soon as they published him, the magazine would blow up." A very good copy of a compelling descriptive bibliography. Single volume, measuring 9 x 6 inches: xii, 99, [1]. Original tan cloth, spine lettered in white, original unclipped color pictorial dust jacket. Text printed in red and black. Lightest edgewear, spotting to rear endpapers and rear panel of dust jacket, tape repair to verso of jacket.
Seller: Honey & Wax Booksellers, ABAA, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, brown cloth, d.w. Boston: Beacon Press, (1958). d.w. First Edition. Signed by Williams on the flyleaf in a shaky hand. Fine copy without the dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: THE BOOK IS SIGNED BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. BELOW THE WILLIAMS CARLOS WILLIAMS SIGNATURE IS AN INSCRIPTION BY THE EDITOR "FOR ARTHUR A. KRON BEST WISHES EDITH HEAL". MS. HEAL WAS AFFILIATED WITH FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY, THE MAIN CAMPUS WAS BASED AT THAT TIME IN RUTHERFORD NJ, HOME OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS. THE CAMPUS IS NOW OWNED BY FELICIAN COLLEGE. ARTHUR KRON (DECEASED CA: 1980) WAS A TRUSTEE ON THE BOARD OF FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY. TEANECK, NJ IS NOW THE MAIN CAMPUS FOR FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY. THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING IS "KRON HALL". MR. KRON'S WIDOW WAS MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR FOR 20 YEARS. THE DUST JACKET IS IN A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC COVER. NICE STRONG CLEAN TIGHT COPY.
Seller: BRIER ROSE BOOKS, TEANECK, NJ, U.S.A.