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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original decorated, string-tied wrappers, very good but fragile, with some foxing to front cover on the left side. Contains small previous owners book plate on inside of front cover on bottom left corner. This is one of 150 copies. This copy in a plastic portective cover.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Go. Go. Manikin Number Two.. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First edition, sole printing, of this scarce collection of Imagist poetry including "The Red Wheelbarrow", which, though brief, is nonetheless one of the most influential masterpieces of modern American poetry. Its inclusion in Monroe Wheeler's Manikin series marks its first publication in the United States, preceded only by the exceedingly scarce collection Spring And All, published in Paris earlier in the same year in an edition of only 300 copies. Manikin Number Two in fact had half the print run of Spring and All, with only 150 copies printed, and is scarce today. Spring and All, however, had almost no circulation on the continent, and copies entering America were stopped at customs. Williams himself said later of the publication, "Nobody ever saw it", and a mere handful of copies remain in circulation today. Monroe Wheeler's Manikin collection of Williams's poetry includes largely the same poems as Spring and All, plus a new poem "The Hermaphroditic Telephones". Small octavo. Original grey card wrappers sewn at the fold, titles and illustration to front in blue. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Manikin Number Two. Go Go.. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923, 1923.
Price: US$1090.78 + shipping
Description: First edition of this scarce collection of Imagist poetry, including "The Red Wheelbarrow", one of the most influential masterpieces of modern American poetry. Its inclusion in Monroe Wheeler's Manikin series marks its first publication in the United States, preceded only by its inclusion in the exceedingly scarce collection Spring And All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose, published in Paris earlier in the same year in an edition of 300 copies only. Manikin Number Two had half the print run of Spring and All, with only 150 copies printed, and is scarce today. Spring and All had almost no circulation on the continent, and copies entering America were stopped at customs. Williams himself later said of the first publication, "Nobody ever saw it", and a mere handful of copies remain in circulation today. Monroe Wheeler's Manikin collection of Williams's poetry includes nine poems previously published in Spring and All, plus a new poem, "The Hermaphroditic Telephones". Small octavo. Original grey card wrappers sewn at the fold, titles and illustration to front in blue. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom