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Williams, William Carlos. THE KNIFE OF THE TIMES AND OTHER STORIES. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, 1932.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, original dark teal cloth, printed paper labels affixed to front and spine panels. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. The first collection of short fiction by this major American poet. The stories make use of his professional experience as a doctor -- much more so than his poems do. Wallace A13. Light stain to upper margin of text block throughout, outside clean and attractive, a very good copy. Neither the glassine dust jacket nor printed dust jacket are present. (#118011)

Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.

Williams, William Carlos. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories. The Dragon Press, 1932.

Price: US$120.05 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Cover shows minor wear. Pages are lightly tanned, minor tidemarks on the top edges.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

Williams, William Carlos. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, NY, 1932.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, 164 pp., Limited to 500 copies, Slight darkening to paper spine label, else about fine

Seller: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.

WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories.. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, 1932.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 164 pp. 12mo, publisher's cloth with printed paper labels, in glassine wrapper. First edition; one of 500 copies. A fine copy with tiniest areas of rubbing at the tips of the corners; light use to glassine at extremities.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Williams, William Carlos.. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories.. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, 1932.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Limited to 500 copies. A Fine copy in dull iron blue cloth, spine label, in a Very Good original dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with two intersecting closed tears to rear panel (repaired on verso with an old Lewis Street Bookshop Hartford Connecticut label). Lacks the inner glassine wrapper. Jacket spine toned. Copy from library of Samuel French Morse with his dated signature on front free endpaper dated New York 1937. 164pp. Eleven short stories. Q17472

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963).. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories.. The Dragon Press, Ithaca, New York. The Dragon Series edited by Angel Flores. (One of 500 copies)., 1932.

Price: US$675.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 5 1/4 inches x 7 5/8 in., half-title with other Dragon Press titles listed on the reverse; list of WCW titles; title-page, with publisher's dragon device; contents. [8]pp., 164 pp. with individual titles for the eleven stories. The lower portion of page 8 and the facing title show an adhesion of the paper, with some of the paper surface pulled away, affecting a few words. Blue, textured cloth with printed paper title labels on the spine and front cover; unclipped, gray paper dustjacket with titling and design by Olaf A. Brauner, in blue. Light rubbing to spine ends, cover corners, name in ink on the front paste-down: Russell A. Griffin 1935. The spine ends and edges of the dustjacket show some chipping, with a 1/2 inch closed tear to the lower edge of the back dustjacket edge, small spot, age-related tanning to the dustjacket spine, and tanning to endpapers. Early glassine wraparound over the dustjacket, this shows some tanning, chipping.

Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.

WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories. Dragon Press (1932), Ithaca, N. Y., 1932.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, original blue cloth, printed dust jacket. A very fine copy, preserved in a full cloth slipcase with leather label on the spine. A very fine copy, preserved in a full cloth slipcase with leather label on the spine First edition. One of 500 copies printed (the entire edition). Wallace A13. Williams' first book of short stories, The Knife of the Times is "all about people I knew in the town, portraits of people who were my friends. I was impressed by the picture of the times, depression years, the plight of the poor . . . I wrote it down as I saw it. The times - that was the knife that was killing them." - (from I Wanted To Write A Poem).

Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

Williams, William Carlos. THE KNIFE OF THE TIMES And Other Stories. The Dragon Press: Ithaca, NY, 1932.

Price: US$1092.50 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 7.5 x 5", blue cloth with paper title labels on front cover and spine, 164pp, covers rubbed and stained, extremities bumped and fraying, spine a little cocked, contents worn with some finger soiling. SWAF. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. SCARCE: Only 500 copies printed!

Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Knife of the Times and Other Stories. Dragon Press (1932), Ithaca, N. Y., 1932.

Price: US$1750.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo, original blue cloth, glassine dust jacket with outer printed dust jacket. Dust jacket evenly age-darkened and a bit chipped, otherwise a fine copy. Rare signed. Dust jacket evenly age-darkened and a bit chipped, otherwise a fine copy. Rare signed First edition. One of 500 copies printed (the entire edition). Wallace A13. Signed by Williams on the front free endpaper. Williams' first book of short stories, The Knife of the Times is "all about people I knew in the town, portraits of people who were my friends. I was impressed by the picture of the times, depression years, the plight of the poor . . . I wrote it down as I saw it. The times - that was the knife that was killing them." - (from I Wanted To Write A Poem.

Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.