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WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Paterson (Book Five).. New Directions,, NY:, 1958.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Age toning to cloth covered boards, else very good in tan cloth. No dust jacket.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson V (Book Five). New Directions Books, New York, 1958.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: unpaginated; HB lt.beige w/orange&gilt; rubbed /w blk.residue,bttm.edge; tape ghosts on endpapers; some tan on edges w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/red-pic.cover; rubbed w/tape residue; spine sunned; soiled. Poetry. "The whole of Paterson . is a search for adequate expression of the flowing, shifting, tumbling, racing, inundating consciousness of man . "
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Paterson (Book Five).. New Directions,, NY:, 1958.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good in a good (moderate to heavy foxing) dust jacket. B000OM4V1S
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. PATERSON (BOOK FIVE). New Directions,, 1958.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A NEAR FINE FIRST in VERY GOOD dj. coffee ring on back of dj
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson : Book Five. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: University library withdrawl used very little (5 circulations); in clean bright cloth with faint scrape to front; crisp clean rough cut pages;
Seller: B-Line Books, Amherst, NS, Canada
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson (Book Five). New Directions Books, New York, 1958.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 48 pp. unpaginated. A44 in Emily Wallace bibliography. tan cloth, gilt lettering, horizontal red strip wrapped around fr board onto back board. "Hopwood Library" rubber stamp on page 1 bottom margin, page bottom beginning Part 2, fr pastedown and t.p. Paterson - V (t.p.), with no other markings. Unclipped DJ with 1" closed tear fr top edge, 1/2" chipped off top spine, 1/2" isoceles triangle chip along rear top edge, two brown dots - soil along fr hinge. Size: Slim Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson: Book Five. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Some smudges on dustjacket, which also has a 3/4 inch closed tear at upper right corner of front wrap.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. PATERSON (BOOK FIVE). New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, tan cloth, fore-edge bumped; dj bumped The climactic volume of Williams' paen to the consciousness of man. [Wallace A44a]
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos.. PATERSON. BOOK FIVE.. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Near fine in a very good+ dust jacket. ( 1" X 5"-inch glue stain on front endpaper. Additional staining on opposite front pastedown. Couple small soil spots on end papers. A few short edge tears & couple small chips in DJ. ) 3000 copies printed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$66.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The final volume of an American epic, published between 1946 and 1958. Very good in dustwrapper darkened around perimeter, sunned on spine and with a couple of nicks.
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Williams, William Carlos. PATERSON (BOOK FIVE). New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Description: The final book in his Paterson epic Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket; endpapers lightly foxed; rubbed section on first free endpaper, perhaps where a bookplate was removed; jacket is foxed and soiled with slight edgewear
Seller: May Day Books, Los Altos Hills, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, WILLIAM CARLOS. Paterson Book Five. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$94.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Grey cloth with orange and gilt decorations. Cloth has a few faint stains, and there is a little wear to the cloth at the outer corners and head and heel of spine. Otherwise fine in a lightly worn and soiled dustjacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson (Book Five). New Directions Book, (New York), 1958.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Foxing on both boards, else a near fine copy in very good or better dust jacket with modest foxing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Paterson (Book Five).. New Directions, [New York], 1958.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A few slight marks to cloth; an unworn, tight and sound copy in a jacket with two short closed tears and some slight use. A New Directions Book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos.. Paterson (Book Five).. NY: New Directions (1958)., 1958.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: [44 pp]. One lower corner lightly bumped, else very near fine in near fine dust jacket with one 1 in closed tear. One of 3000 copies printed.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson Book Five. New Directions, (New York), 1958.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in about fine dustwrapper. Penciled ownership signature of poet Daniel Hoffman.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos signed by author. Paterson (Book Five). NEW DIRECTIONS, NEW YORK, 1958.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: signed by author, pages clean, foxing, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover, previous owners signature on inside of front cover, gilt on cover and spine, some color transfer on dj. ONE OF 3,000 COPIES PRINTED 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: 1958 EDITION: UNPAGINATED
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson I-V. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Complete in five volumes, all in dust jackets. Very Good overall. Flap prices intact except for the last volume. Book 1 Very Good in Good dust jacket: a few small chips missing to edges of jacket, archival mending tissue on verso of jacket, back panel toned, "shelf copy" stamped on back paste down (publisher's stamp?). Book 2 Very Good in Good: spine panel of jacket, bottom edge of front panel, and spine dampstained. Book 3 Very Good in Good: a bit of foxing to cloth of front, a lot of chipping top edge of front panel, piece missing from back panel top with creasing. Book 4 Near Fine in Very Good+: toning to edges of jacket and light shelf wear. Book 5 Very Good in Good+: well-bumped top corners, rubbing and light foxing to jacket, faint stain to front panel, toning to back panel, edge wear to jacket. All jackets are mylar-protected. A nice set. William Carlos Williams' epic poem in five books, each issued in small runs-- 1,000 copies each for the first four; 3,000 for the last.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson Book Five. New Directions, (New York), 1958.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in a handsome near fine dust jacket with a light damsptain near the bottom of the foot. Inscribed by Williams, in his post-stroke hand, to the poet Charles Bell: "Charles Bell from William Carlos Williams." Bell wrote three volumes of poetry and two novels. Both Bell's first novel, *The Married Land* (1962), and his poetry, was praised by Williams.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. Paterson. Books 1-5. New Directions, New York, 1958.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Description: Five volumes. Original light gray cloth, lettered in gilt and blocked in various colors, with the dust jackets. All volumes show some mild even toning to the jackets. Book 1 shows some browning to the endpapers, the jacket is slightly chipped at the head of the spine; Book Two has some toning to the jacket but is otherwise near fine; Book Three has a tiny nick to the head of the jacket spine and a very short closed tear to the top edge of the front jacket panel; Book Four has a very short closed tear to the head of the jacket spine; Book Five has some minor rubbing to the jacket. Williams' epic masterpiece, a song of Paterson, New Jersey, a companion to his friend Ezra Pound's Cantos. Volumes 1-4 were published in editions of 1000 copies each, stated; volume 5 was published in an edition of 3000 copies. Wallace A24, A25, A30, A34, A44.
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Complete in five volumes. First editions of Williams' magnum opus and a Connolly 100 title. All five books in lovely near fine condition in tan cloth with color bands (different for each volume). All in price-intact dustwrappers. Spine lettering to Volume IV and V are bright and legible. Each volume's wrapper has some toning, or light stains or minor offsets, but overall, a very pleasing set. Only the wrapper to Volume V has a couple of small chips to the edges. Housed in a sturdy cloth-covered slipcase with printed spine label.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson (Books 1 - 5 complete). New Directions, (New York), 1958.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First editions. Five volumes. Each volume is fine in a modestly soiled, very good to near fine dustwrappers as follows: *Book One* has modest age-toning; *Book Two* has a tear on the spine, and is moderately soiled, it is also an Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher's promotional material laid in; *Book Three* is modestly soiled, and is price clipped; *Book Four* is a trifle soiled and has a modest dampstain at the crown, and bears Malcolm Cowley's ownership Signature; *Book Five* is an Advance Review Copy with slip and author's photo laid in. A nice, just about uniform sets of one of the great American poetry cycles. Volume Two won the National Book Award. The textured paper of the dustwrappers lends itself to soiling. Virtually all sets that one sees are so afflicted, this set virtually free of soiling, has a trace of age-toning at the extremities, and is one of the nicer sets we have seen. *Connolly 100*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.