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Williams, William Carlos. Paterson [Books One and Two]. New Directions Books, New York, 1948.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New Classics series. 113 pp. Wear at head and heel of spine and corners of boards; covers rubbed, with mild but overall dustsoiling and numerous faint stains; page edges tanned and lightly dusty, previous owner name and small stain on front free endpaper. Lacks dust jacket. "1946, 1948" on copyright page.
Seller: Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$28.77 + shipping
Description: Boards: orange cloth, black titles, minor wear; New Classics; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 173 pages Good+ at corners, small spot on front. Text: clean and tight. Signed by A. J. M. Smith, Canadian poet.
Seller: Archives Book Shop of East Lansing, MI, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.:. Paterson Books 1 & 2.. New York: New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. 1946 & 1948 on copyright page. 113pp. Name/date to top corner of f.e.p. V.g. in edge-worn dustwrapper, small piece missing bottom corner of front panel, head of spine rubbed and chipped, minor loss foot of spine, few other nicks and small tears.
Seller: Peter Scott, Portslade, United Kingdom
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (Books 1 & 2). New Directions Books 1948, 1948.
Price: US$49.55 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with Good DJ. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelf wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear with light soiling. Presented with clear book jacket cover. Previous owner's name stamp on end paper. NOTE: William Carlos Williams published "Paterson" in five individual volumes released in 1946, 1948, 1949, 1951 and 1958. THIS EDITION WAS PUBLISHED IN 1948 and contains volumes one and two only,; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!
Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. Paterson. New Direction books James laughlin, 1948.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: first edition issued before books 3,4, and 5 were published and therefore quite rare. Sadly lacks dust jacket but a very good book. Tight binding and apart from description to inner in pencil the book is very clean
Seller: studio2bookshop, Grampound, United Kingdom
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (NC 26 in Good dust jacket). New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Books 1,2,3 and 4. Two dates in the book, 1946 and 1948. Price-clipped dust jacket gently rubbed at edges, no loss of paper. No marks in text. Not a library book. Ships in a cardboard enclosure, from Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Founded 1991 on the principle of good books at sane prices.
Seller: Tim's Used Books Provincetown Mass., Provincetown, MA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. PATERSON.The New Classics ["Books 1 & 2"]. (New Directions: NY), 1948.
Price: US$74.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 7 x 5", rust colored textured boards, 113pp, spine ends bumped, extremities a little worn, endpapers unevenly toned, ffep with inkstamped star, else a nice copy in an edge-worn/creased/torn, lightly soiled but complete dustjacket with the "$1.50" price on front flap. Wallace A49a, one of 1577 copies.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early reprint. Jacket art by Alvin Lustig. 12mo. Ink fingerprint on preliminary page, spine slightly cocked, foxing on topedge, very good in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with faint internal dampstain to spine tail. Jacket price is $1.50.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos.. Paterson.. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. Paterson Books 1,2,3,4. A Fine copy in rust colored textured paper covered boards, in a Very Good dustwrapper, price-clipped (designed by Lustig), with minor edgewear to points and spine-ends, but no fading. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. 238pp. Issued as the publisher's New Classics Series #26. Now uncommon. Q19621
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$220.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: red cloth, black lettering, no dust jacket, 113 pp first edition covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson -- Book Two. New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good with minor stain to top edge of front board and a touch of foxing to boards. Interior clean and unmarked save for small name and town written on flyleaf. In a very good plus dust jacket ($3.00 price intact) with slight wear at spine ends and corners and very minor soiling to rear panel. An excellent copy of this scarce title.
Seller: Magus Books of Sacramento, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (Book Two). New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$282.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Unpaginated. Beige publisher's cloth with black decoration and gold titles. In unclipped dust-jacket, faintly toned along spine and top edge, lightly worn at edges, two small tidy tape repairs on reverse, in clear plastic sleeve. Very slight lean to spine, 2 cm split at top of front hinge, binding is otherwise tight and sound. One of a thousand copies of this first edition, printed for New Directions by the Van Vechten Press in Metuchen, New Jersey.
Seller: The Paper Hound Bookshop, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (Book Two). New Directions Books 1948, 1948.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: January 1948 limited edition ( 1,000) slender hardcover in tan cloth no title to spine, no jacket. Tight and unmarked glue residue from bookplate on flyleaf. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (Book Two). New Directions, 1948.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition. Limited to 1000 copies. Hard bound in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows age toning and edge wear. Pages show slight toning, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Light dampstaining to the lower half of the rear board and the bottom edge of the front board; some wrinkling of the bottom edge of the text at rear. Dust jacket lightly tanned with a small chip at the top of the spine. Two-page typescript of Ruth Lechlitner's review laid in, corrected in pencil; a few pencil annotations to text of the book in the same hand. A New Directions Book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. PATERSON. New Directions, New York, 1948.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in a Good price clipped dust jacket. Bottom corner of front flap and top corner of rear flap clipped. Rubbing on flap folds and spine edges. Chipping at spine crown/heel and top of rear panel. Few large tears at top of front panel. Damp staining at top of rear panel and front flap.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Paterson (Book Two).. New Directions, [New York], 1948.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Slight bump to one corner; top edge very slightly soiled; otherwise an unworn, tight and sound copy in a jacket tanned at the spine and edges and lightly soiled. A New Directions Book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos (Signed). Paterson (Book Two). NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW YORK, 1948.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: signed and inscribed to Elena M. Hellebranth by author. ALSO, includes a handwritten letter to Miss Hellebranth from Auralie Fleming. Pages clean, foxing to covers, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover, gilt on cover and spine, foxing on cover, hinge cracking, Elena Hellabranth's bookplate on inside of front cover. Dust jacket has general wear, age toned spine, rubbed extremities, NOT price clipped. We have other signed williams titles. 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: 1948 EDITION: UNPAGINATED
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: . Paterson (Book Five). New York, New Directions, 1958. Two vols, 8vo and large 8vo, pp. 238 and pp. [44]; with half-titles; good copies, in slightly worn jackets; bookplates of the poet and BBC producer D.G. Bridson.First collected edition of Books One to Four and first edition of Book Five; inscribed on the front free endpaper of One to Four (in Williams's distinctive scrawl, in two different pens after the first ran out of ink) 'D.J. [i.e. G.] Bridson with my compliments / William Carlos Williams'. Paterson was William's masterwork, a fragmentary modernist epic about the New Jersey town of Paterson, his hometown, written over the course of three decades and published in five parts from 1948 to 1958. D.G.Bridson and Williams had shared the pages in various magazines in 1930s as well as in Pound's Active Anthology in 1933 Pound was a mutual friend for many years and in October 1960 Bridson 'collaborated with Donald Hall to introduce . Paterson to English listeners' (Bridson, Prospero and Ariel). Connolly 100 ('The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg, large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday, intimate Bonnard-like interiors, uproarious comedy. his poem is written with a deep aversion to all forms of pretentiousness, rhetoric or prepared effects; it runs eddying along, broken by old letters, bits of local history and limpid love lyrics'). Language: English
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom