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Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very fine; 88 p., immaculate and unmarked--not ex-lib., no former owner's name; a row of numbers is faintly stamped on front end page; some foxing on end pages but not within, very fine paper only mildly age-toned; binding tight; despite absence of d.j. boards are clean with little wear.
Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.
CONGREVE, William.. Love for Love: The Play by William Congreve.. Scribner's,, NY:, 1940.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Produced in New York, June 3 to 8, 1940, by The Players under the direction of Robert Edmond Jones. Introduction by Franklin P. Adams. First printing thus. Boards are bowed, else very good in printed boards. No dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Congreve, William. Love for Love. Scribner & Sons, New York, 1940.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: Produced in New York June 3-8, 1940 by The Players under the direction of Robert Edmond Jones.
Seller: Books on the Boulevard, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Endpapers with modest offsetting, spine slightly tanned, very good. Second volume in Williams' "Stecher Trilogy", about a young immigrant family in pre-WWI New York.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Indigo cloth slightly faded on edges beneath worn jacket. Jacket chipped, soiled on back cover, missing quarter inch at head of spine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.10 + shipping
Description: XXI, 579 pages and ca. 60 n. n. pages "Literary information". With a lot of illustrations on plates. Illustrated original cloth binding (Binding spotted. Paper partially browned). 23x16 cm * Contributions by Paul Goodmann, Weldon Kees, Alfred Young Fisher, Wright Morris, Walker Evans, Katherine Anne Porter, George Orwell, Parker Tyler, Edgar Kaufmann, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Peale Bishop etc ----- James Laughlin (October 30, 1914 November 12, 1997) was an American poet and literary book publisher who founded New Directions Publishing. In 1934, Laughlin traveled to France, where he met Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Laughlin accompanied the two on a motoring tour of southern France and wrote press releases for Stein's upcoming visit to the U.S. He proceeded to Italy to meet and study with Ezra Pound, who famously told him, "You're never going to be any good as a poet. Why don't you take up something useful?" Pound suggested publishing. Later, Laughlin took a leave of absence from Harvard and stayed with Pound in Rapallo for several months. When Laughlin returned to Harvard, he used money from his father to found New Directions, which he ran first from his dorm room and later from a barn on his Aunt Leila Laughlin Carlisle's estate in Norfolk, Connecticut. (The firm opened offices in New York soon after, first at 333 Sixth Avenue and later at 80 Eighth Avenue, where it remains today.) With funds from his graduation gift, Laughlin endowed New Directions with more money, ensuring that the company could stay afloat even though it did not turn a profit until 1946. The first publication of the new press, in 1936, was New Directions in Prose & Poetry, an anthology of poetry and writings by authors such as William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, Henry Miller, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, and E. E. Cummings, a roster that heralded the fledgling company's future as a preeminent publisher of modernist literature. The volume also included a poem by "Tasilo Ribischka," a pseudonym for Laughlin himself. New Directions in Prose and Poetry became an annual publication, issuing its final number in 1991. Within just a few years New Directions had become an important publisher of modernist literature. Initially, it emphasized contemporary American writers with whom Laughlin had personal connections, such as William Carlos Williams and Pound. A born cosmopolitan, though, Laughlin also sought out cutting-edge European and Latin American authors and introduced their work to the American market. One important example of this was Hermann Hesse's novel Siddhartha, which New Directions initially published in 1951. Laughlin often remarked that the popularity of Siddhartha subsidized the publication of many other money-losing books of greater importance. (Quelle Wikipedia) Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1300
Seller: Antiquariat Heinzelmännchen, Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$49.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This might well be titled: "Portrait of a Man Kicked Upstairs." For when the late William Wrigley, in the fall of 1930, released Joe McCarthy as manager of the Cubs in favor of Rogers Hornsby, he unwittingly sent his erstwhile employee to become field marshal of the greatest ball club of our times, the amazing New York Yankees. Last fall Joe McCarthy won his fourth straight World Series as Yankee manager, a record for the game. In nine years at the Yankee helm, the stocky, square-chinned Irishman has won five flags and never lost a World Series. His teams have dropped only three games in 23 starts against the Cubs, Giants and Reds in series play and twice he has had the satisfaction of setting down his old charges, the Bruins, without the loss of a single game. Yankee success has been McCarthy success too, and every so often somebody wants to argue: "Did McCarthy make the Yanks or the Yanks make McCarthy?" Perhaps the best answer to such a query was expressed, one time, by Tony Lazzeri, when he was the Yank second-baseman. Somebody had asked Tony if Joe was tough. "No," grunted the laconic Italian, "but he's the boss all right." Under McCarthy's banner, Babe Ruth played out his string and Lou Gehrig wound up his career. They were the twin back-bones of great Yank clubs, yet the ranks closed up around their holes left by their passing and the team went right on winning. McCarthy or the Yankees? Quite definitely a neat combination of both; a bewildering mixture of values and direction; a production lavishly staged and so shrewdly handled that it functions without a hitch. We remember a day on the Yankee bench when Gehrig, the "Iron Man" snitched a cigaret from our hand and ducked down behind us for a forbidden puff so that Mar'se Joe wouldn't catch him. Not even Gehrig transgressed. There was another day on the bench in St. Petersburg when the Yanks were some two minutes late getting to the park. They were met by a McCarthy ultimatum. "Tomorrow," he snapped, "the bus will leave a half hour earlier. There's a pitcher out there ready and nobody to hit." That was all, but enough. World champions scattered to their posts in a hurry. Yankee teams are as smart, business-like, efficient as the organization which puts 'em together and the most crisply efficient, business-like of all is Pilot McCarthy. He wants hustle, alertness, thinking and he gets 'em or takes steps to weed out those who do not respond. He traded Johnny Alien for Monte Pearson and Ben Chapman for Jake Powell because Alien and Chapman didn't fit into his conception of championship poise and won on both deals. Fellows like 'Bump' Hadley and Oral Hildebrand win for the Yanks when they didn't elsewhere. The paunchy, gum-chewing McCarthy has his own ideas of discipline. They tell a story of a pitcher, still on the club, who one time fancied himself as either over-worked or suffering from a sore arm and who voluntarily withdrew from a steady starting job. He even stayed home a few days, reporting sick. His eventual return was taken without fanfare and, after a few days of wandering around the clubhouse and diamond apparently unnoticed, he sought out McCarthy. "What's the matter?" he wanted to know. "Have I done something? Why don't you pitch me?" McCarthy looked surprised. "Oh, it's you," he commented. "I didn't know you wanted to pitch. I'm glad you told me. You can pitch this afternoon. Sure. Glad to have you." The surprised hurler pitched and won his game. Thereafter he made sure he worked in turn until his next defection when' the same tactics were repeated. Gradually it has been borne upon him that McCarthy has a style of handling men all his own. There has been a decided change for the better in the young man. Long before McCarthfy went to the Yankees, he was a success in Louisville. Next he took a gregarious Cub outfit and built it into a pennant winner in '29, the first Bruin flag since 1918. He has one of the most amazing memories on facts and figures in the game a
Seller: CorgiPack, Fulton, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In The Money. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1940.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition bound in blue cloth. Review copy with the publication da te stamped on the front fly. A GD+ copy, book has dust soiling along t he edges. Endpapers tanned. Trace of an old water stain to the inside of the rear board, shows a light mark at the edge of the last 3 pages & the rear panel of the dj. No damage to the outer board. Dj chipped & worn.
Seller: Dearly Departed Books, Alliance, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Exhibition announcement. Postcard. Type reversed out of green background. Not dated, but Williams' novel appeared in 1940. A slip of paper is stapled to the verso of the postcard, reading "Dr. Williams has graciously consented to inscribe copies for out-of-town readers who cannot be present, if orders are received before publication date." Very Good Plus.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Congreve, William.. Love for Love.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1940.
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Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in pale yellow paper covered boards printed in red ande black, in an eccentric cellophane dustwrapper with paper flaps (also Fine). 87pp. Introduction (in verse) by Franklin P. Adams. Published in conjunction with a contemporary production of the play by The Players in New York, June 3-8, 1940, under the direction of Robert Edmond Jones. Q18710
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.14 + shipping
Description: 4. revid. Aufl. 8°. VIII, 475 SS. OFein-Ln.(dunkelblau) mit versilb. (R-) Titel und OU (dieser etwas bestossen, Rücken gebräunt). Etwas Alters- u. Lagerungs-, weniger eigentliche Gebrauchsspuren. Gesamthaft sauberes, recht gutes Exemplar. - - Massgebliche, vierte u. letzte (Original-) Ausgabe dieser Studie zur politischen, diplomatischen und militärischen Vorgeschichte des Ersten Weltkrieges - Reprint der 4. Auflage 1940 digitalis. in Internet Archive - Brit.Lib. General Reference Collection, St Pancras Reading Rooms, shelfmark no 08026.f.1. - Erstmals 1927 (vi, 218 pages; Brit.Lib.) - "This book is an analytical survey of the most important publications, official and unofficial, which have appeared since 1914, concerning the diplomatic history of Europe from the accession of the Emperor William II. in 1888 to the Treaty of Versailles. The material is grouped in nine chapters: Germany; Austria; Russia; The Near East; Italy and Spain; France; Belgium and Holland; Great Britain; The United States. A concluding chapter presents the author's reflections on the policies of the different countries. About half of the present edition (the fourth) is new." (Text on dust jacket). - With Index of Writers and Editors - "The war was a child of the European anarchy, of the outworn system of sovereign states. The Old World had degenerated into a powder-magazine, in which the dropping of a lighted match was almost certain to produce a gigantic conflagration. [.] It is a mistake to imagine that it took us unawares, for soldiers and civilians alike had been expecting and preparing for it for many years. It is also a mistake to attribute exceptional depravity to any of the Governments which [.] 'stumbled and staggered into war' [Lloyd George]. Blind to danger and deaf to advice as were the rulers of the three despotic empires, not one of them desired to set the world alight. Yet, though they may be acquitted ot the crime of deliberately starting the avalanche, they must jointly bear the reproach of having chosen the path which led to the abyss." (Conclusion, p. 470) -- George Peabody Gooch (London 1873-1968 ibid.), English historian of modern diplomacy. "His most important contribution to diplomatic history was his stress on the publication of original documents as opposed to historical narratives slanted to the ends of governments or nations." (archives.history.ac uk, Historians, online). - Resp. "Such was his political influence that during the First World War, he was employed by the history department of the Foreign Office and was requested to prepare materials to accompany the British delegation to the Paris Peace Conference of 1919-1920." (heritage.humanists uk, online; cf. Munzinger Archiv: "Seine Mitwirkung an der gewaltigen Aktenpublikation zur britischen Außenpolitik zwischen 1898 und 1914 und über die Ursachen des ersten Weltkrieges war nicht nur Dienst an der Wahrheit, sondern zugleich an der Gesundung der deutsch-englischen Beziehungen"). -- WEIGHT CATEGORY / Versandkateogorie / Poids brut 2 kg - Sprache: en
Seller: Franz Kühne Antiquariat und Kunsthandel, Affoltern am Albis, Switzerland
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money -- White Mule-Part II. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: Fine (clean and bright with no markings) in a very good dust jacket with $2.50 price intact. Light wear to spine ends, edges and corners and a couple of closed tears. An attractive copy.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money White Mule Part II. New Directions, Norfolk, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: In the Money by William Carlos Williams. White Mule Part II. First edition in dust jacket. Publisher: New Directions, Norfolk, (1940). Dust jacket is in very good condition, showing edge wear. Binding is in fine condition. Contents clean and bright. 382 pages. 5 ½ x7 ¾ inches. Inventory #23-213. Price: $100.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In The Money. New Directions, Norfolk, 1940.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Navy cloth covers. 382 pp. The sequel to White Mule, but also a novel that stands on its own. Darkening to endpapers and gutters. Some general light cover wear. A very good example in handsome very good price-intact dustwrapper. Overall, a better copy that typically found.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. In the Money.. New Directions, Norfolk, 1940.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 382 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Minor browning at hinges from binder's adhesive; otherwise about fine in a nice jacket with some two small tape stains on the verso and some minor wrinkling to the front panel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. IN THE MONEY White Mule - Part II. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1940.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. Very near fine copy with light toning, in a bright complete dust jacket with a few small chips and three closed tears in the center area of the jacket. Previous owner's name on ffep. Presents very nicely. 1500 copies printed. Wallace A21a.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, published by New Directions in 1940. A fine example of the book. Dust jacket near fine with small chips at the top edge of the front panel, as well as the spine ends. White Mule part two.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money. New Directions, New York, 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of this novel, Part 2 of "In the Money." Blue cloth with silver titles to the spine. "20 c" has been written in ink on the front free endpaper. THe price-intact ($2.50) jacket s very good with light edgewear to the corners and spine extremities.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money. White Mule--Part II. New York New Directions [1940]., 1940.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Covers lightly soiled, edges & endpapers lightly foxed. Very good in very good d.j. D.j. has a few small chips and short tears. 1st edition. Binding is Cloth.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Postcards, invitations, table cards, order cards and tickets. Publication party invitations: New Poems by Oscar Williams, April 17th 1940. Typescript on notecard. The GBM and Peter Pauper Press invite you to meet the contributors to New Poems 1942, April 17 1942. Table card, printed in red on heavy stock folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet, printed on first recto only. GBM and The John Day Company Present The War Poets: An Anthology of the War Poetry of the Twentieth Century, edited by Oscar Williams, 1945. Printed in red on blue card stock. A Little Treasury of American Poetry, edited by Oscar Williams, July 15, 1948. Embossed card stock. Photography Exhibition: January River by Riva Putnam, March 12, 1947. Embossed card stock. Spearhead: an anthology of ten years' advance-guard writing in America, November 4, 1947. On notepaper with New Directions address. The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean by Albert Spaulding Cook, September 15, 1949. Embossed card stock. The New Barbarian by Mrs. Winthrop Palmer, February 14, 1951. Postcard. But Not Forgotten: The Adventure of the University Players by Norris Houghton, January 16, 1952. Embossed card stock. The Intelligent Heart: The Story of D. H. Lawrence by Harry T. Moore, January 4, 1955. Embossed card stock. Theatre in the East by Faubion Bowers, June 1, 1956. Embossed card stock. Odysseus and Calypso by Herbert Schaumann, February 7, 1957. Embossed card stock. At the Ninth Hour: A Sonnet Sequence in a New Form by Madeline Mason, October 8, 1958. Embossed card stock. The Art of Spiritual Healing by Joel S. Goldsmith, November 21, 1959. Embossed card stock. James Joyce by Richard Ellmann, October 21, 1959. Card stock. Great Companions by Max Eastman, April 9, 1959. Embossed card stock. A reading of Moytura, a play by Padraic Colum, November 15, 1960. Mimeo'd on yellow card. John o' London's: "New Frontiers in American Writing." Edited by Ernst Kay, May 4, 1961. Card stock. Young Crankshaw by Cecil Hemley, January 31, 1963. Blue card stock. Tennessee Williams and Friends by Gilbert Maxwell, July 14, 1965. Printed and handwritten on folded fine paper. A Reader's Guide to Finnegan's Wake by William York Tindall, February 14, 1969. Card stock. Undated: Practical Yoga Ancient and Modern by Professor Ernest E. Wood. Printed in green on gray card. The Glorious Presence by Ernest E. Wood. Mimeo'd on yellow paper. The Man from New York: John Quinn and His Friends by B. L. Reid. Card stock. Meet Joel S. Goldsmith. Card stock. Paris was Our Mistress: Memoirs of a Lost and Found Generation by Samuel Putnam. Green on gray card. Various Poems by Ruth Stephan. On rose card stock. Oracle by Claude Bragdon. Mimeo'd on gray rough cut card. Sonnets and Lyrics by Winthrop Pushness Palmer. Mimeo'd on gray rough cut card. Inside the Endless House: Art, People and Architecture: A Journal. By Frederick Kiesler. On white card. Frances Steloff and Andreas Brown cordially invite you to an Announcement Party. Single sheet folded once to make a 4-pp. booklet, though only printed on first page. 4-7/8 x 7-7/8 inches (folded dimension). Condition of all ranges from Very Good to Fine.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: signed by author on the front end paper, gilt on spine, foxing, pages yellowing, text block clean, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover, dj torn at edges WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A PHYSICIAN AND POET AND THE DE HELLEBRANTH FAMILY WERE VERY CLOSE. OUR COLLECTION OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS WAS PURCHASED FROM THE HOME IN VENTNOR THE CITY NEXT TO OUR GREAT ATLANTIC CITY. Roland De Hellebranth A Doctor who performed surgeries at home and sisters Bertha de Hellebranth and Elena were born into a cultured upper-class family in Budapest, Bertha in 1899, Elena in 1897. Their father was a lawyer and their mother a student of Franz Liszt's last living pupil. They studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and painted portraits of European nobility. As Patricia Fazekas points out, "Growing up in a family of privilege, they seemed to have unusual access to many illustrious people." So we should not be surprised to find among their subjects members of high society, such as Count Andrássy Gyula, the Russian-born Princess Baby Galitzine, and Admiral Horthy Miklós, the Regent. Later on, their subjects included American heiress Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess László Széchenyi), President Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter Paulina Longworth and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Often, the sisters would paint the same subject at the same time, offering the sitter a choice of portraits. Most often, the sitter wanted both renditions. While Elena concentrated on working in oil and watercolor, Bertha used gouache and oil to achieve her effects. Elena gave lectures and workshops, was a writer and also wrote popular and ecclesiastical music, while Bertha also went in for sculpture and handicrafts. From the mid-thirties until World War II, Bertha and Elena divided their time between their home in Budapest and a home on the ocean at 109 S Frankfort ave, Ventnor, NJ. In 1925, they showed their work at the Nemzeti Szalon in Budapest, and in 1926, they had a joint exhibition of their portraits in the US. Both exhibited their work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and most major museums and galleries in the US. Bertha also had exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both Bertha and Elena were Fellows of the Royal Society of Art (London), and garnered numerous prizes. Bertha was awarded First Prize by the National Academy of the American Water Color Society one year, and the Grand Prize of the Audubon Society. She was one of the founders of the now defunct World League of Hungarian Artists Abroad (Külföldi Magyar Képzomuvészek Világszövetsége), and received a Gold Medal from the Cleveland Árpád Akadémia in 1963. (Elena also received the Akadémia's gold medal in 1965.) Their work is found in numerous museums. The de Hellebranth sisters were devout Catholics, and this is evident in their many portraits of clerics and religious subjects. Bertha's religious sculptures include not only the Patrona Hungariae which was given to St. Emery Church by the Transylvanian Franciscans in 1957, but also several now in the Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation in New Brunswick, NJ, as for example a statue of St. Francis and another of Christ. Elena contributed several folk style panels to the Hungarian Pavilion's display at the 1939 New York World's Fair, while Bertha exhibited a couple of sculptures, one entitled "Sleeping Shepherd". Bertha and Elena became American citizens in the 1940's, but as Elena remarked, "While we are Americans, the Hungarian blood still boils through us." And Patricia Fazekas relates, DATE PUBLISHED: 1940 EDITION: 382
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. In the Money. New Directions, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine lettering bright. Top and bottom edges sunned in spite of jacket. Extremely small flecks of white on back cover. Endpapers heavily foxed, text block clean - although age-toned. Inscription on front free endpaper, one name of the recipients is scratched out. Edges of jacket are chipped and torn.
Seller: Book Stop, Inc., Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. White Mule [with] In the Money. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Each book the first printing, octavo size, 303 and 382 pp. respectively, "In the Money" inscribed by Williams. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), although a medical doctor by profession, was likely one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. A leading poet of the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and H.D., an inspiration to the beats and the San Francico Renaissance, he "was known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry" (n.b., quote from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). "The White Mule" is the first novel in what would become a trilogy, following the Stecher family; although a trilogy, each book is a complete novel by itself. While WCW is primarily thought of as a poet, his "novels are of great interest. They are important books in their own right, because they present with a poet's insight, and in a prose style of striking originality, aspects of American life which few other writers have approached" (n.b., this quote and the one below from the web site of New Directions). "In the Money" is the second book in the trilogy and is "Joe Stecher's success story - the tale of his fight against graft and injustice to found his own business and get 'into the money'." This volume inscribed by WCW "To my friend Bob Wetterau / William Carlos Williams" (undated). ___DESCRIPTION: "White Mule": bound in white linen cloth over boards, black lettering stamped onto the front board and spine, title page with press device and triple ruled border; octavo size (7 3/4" by 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-vii] [1, blank] [1] 2-293 [1, blank] [1, publisher's ad]; in a dust jacket of white paper with red lettering and horizontal rules, the flaps with a quote praising Williams by Ezra Pound followed by summary of the book, original price of $2.50 at the bottom of the front flap, back panel with publisher's ads. "In the Money: bound in full navy blue cloth over boards, silver lettering on the spine, the inscription by WCW on the FFEP in black ink as set forth above, title page design matches that of "White Mule"; octavo size (7 3/8" by 5 1/2"), pagination: [1-8] 9-382; dust jacket in shades of blue and white, summary of book on front flap with original price of $2.50 at the bottom of the flap, the back flap with other WCW titles by New Directions with short summaries and review blurbs. ___CONDITION: Both volumes near fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, the interiors clean and bright, and other than the WCW inscription in the second volume entirely free of prior owner markings; light dustiness to both volumes, both very slightly cocked, and "Money" with a single leaf with a vertical crease at the fore-edge (pp. 117-118) not at all touching the text, the page following with a few small marks of soil. Both jackets very good, "Mule" with some overall edgewear (mostly noticeable at the head of the spine and the top where the panels meet the flaps), overall light soil, sunning and a few spots to the spine, sunning around the perimeters; "Money" with light overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine, overall light dustiness. Overall, both volumes near fine in very good or better jackets. ___CITATION: "White Mule" Wallace A18, and "In the Money" Wallace A21. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, Wiliam Carlos. In the Money (White Mule - Part II). New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing. Original publisher's indigo cloth, bright silver gilt lettering on spine. Blue topstain. AGe toning on inside covers and ffep from the underlying glue holding the end paper to the inside covers. Unclipped blue DJ in archival cover, edge wear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. In the Money. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition (1940) $2.50 on Flap. Rare Presentation Copy."For Stephani Desai With Love From G.B. M. William Carlos Williams." Excellent Fresh Copy very Scarce Signed
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Wiliam Carlos. In the Money: White Mule - Part II. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; inscribed by Williams to Norman Mcleod: "To / Norman Mcleod / - with expectations / of the best for the new / novel - / William Carlos Williams / Oct 29/40". Publisher's indigo cloth, lettered in silver. Very good, with some light sunning and a slight lean to the spine, a touch of fraying to the spine ends, small spot to the rear board, light offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise clean interior. A very sturdy copy, signed by the author. Williams inscribed this copy of In the Money to his long-time friend and fellow poet Norman Macleod. In this inscription, Williams references Macleod's second novel, The Bitter Roots, which was published in 1941. The two men maintained a long-term correspondence, and Williams edited several of Macleod's collections of poetry. A fan of the younger poet's verse, Williams professed his admiration poetically with "A Poem for Norman Macleod." In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, Macleod founded the Briarcliff Quarterly magazine and was the first director for the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. In the Money is the second volume in Williams' trilogy featuring the Stecher family. Inspired by his wife's family history and his experiences working in pediatrics, Williams uses this trilogy to examine the life of a European immigrant family in New York, and specifically focuses on Flossie, the Stecher's young daughter whose birth begins the trilogy. In the Money follows Flossie's father Joe Stecher as he establishes a printing company and moves to the suburbs of New Jersey as an endeavor to cultivate a more middle-class life for his family. This novel is preceded by White Mule (1937) and followed by The Build-Up (1952).
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money: White Mule - Part II. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; inscribed by Williams to Norman Mcleod: "To / Norman Mcleod / - with expectations / of the best for the new / novel - / William Carlos Williams / Oct 29/40". Publisher's indigo cloth, lettered in silver. Very good, with some light sunning and a slight lean to the spine, a touch of fraying to the spine ends, small spot to the rear board, light offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise clean interior. A very sturdy copy, signed by the author. Williams inscribed this copy of In the Money to his long-time friend and fellow poet Norman Macleod. In this inscription, Williams references Macleod's second novel, The Bitter Roots, which was published in 1941. The two men maintained a long-term correspondence, and Williams edited several of Macleod's collections of poetry. A fan of the younger poet's verse, Williams professed his admiration poetically with "A Poem for Norman Macleod." In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, Macleod founded the Briarcliff Quarterly magazine and was the first director for the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. In the Money is the second volume in Williams' trilogy featuring the Stecher family. Inspired by his wife's family history and his experiences working in pediatrics, Williams uses this trilogy to examine the life of a European immigrant family in New York, and specifically focuses on Flossie, the Stecher's young daughter whose birth begins the trilogy. In the Money follows Flossie's father Joe Stecher as he establishes a printing company and moves to the suburbs of New Jersey as an endeavor to cultivate a more middle-class life for his family. This novel is preceded by White Mule (1937) and followed by The Build-Up (1952).
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.