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William Carlos Williams. The Broken Span (The Poet of the Month). New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1941.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paperback in dustwrapper. Book is in crisp and clean condition, jacket only fair (has split into 2 pieces along spine).
Seller: Raritan River Books, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Broken Span. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1941.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Description: The first volume of the Poet of the Month series for 1941. Light tanning to page edges, otherwise very good in a good dustjacket that is darkened at the edges, has short closed tears, and is partially split at the spine. 8vo.
Seller: Passages Bookshop, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
. The Poet of the Month: A Series of Poetry Pamphlets. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1941.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. 22pp. Printed wrappers, stapled. Good only lacking last page, wrappers soiled and edgeworn, thus a good only copy. Contributions by John Donne, William Carlos Williams, Malcolm Cowley, Theodore Spencer, Rainer Maria Rilke, and others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Broken Span. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1941.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Poet of the Month" series. Very good, grey dust jacket with pink title, ink first name only on ffep, browning around edges of jacket.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. The Broken Span (Poet of the Month Series). New Directions, 1941.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Soft cover book (30 pages)- part of the Poet of the Month series published by New Directions. Dust jacket is soiled at edge with small tear on spine that is tape repaired. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-R-Bottom) rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. BROKEN SPAN. New Directions (1941), Norfolk, CT, 1941.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. (1941). . Boards. The Poet of the Month. Some of these poems were first published in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry." . 8vo., not paginated, Boards yellowed with stains, frayed; occas. soiling, penciling of e/p's with notation of one page .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Baudelaire, and Charles Henri Ford. The Mirror of Baudelaire. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1941.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. [16]ff. Charles Henri Ford chose Baudelaire as the "Poet of the Month" for this publication, and wrote an introductory "Ballad for Baudelaire." The Preface is by Paul Eluard,and the cover shows a drawing of Baudelaire by Henri Matisse. Translations of Baudelaire's poems are by William Candlewood, with the original French en face. Some very faint toning to grey paper wrappers, else fine.
Seller: Bryn Mawr Bookstore, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. A near fine copy with contents bright and clean in a sunned but still unchipped grey dust jackt.
Seller: Somewhere In Time Books, St. James, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos.. The Broken Span.. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1941.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Issued in the publisher's Poet of the Month series for 1941. A Fine copy in unprinted stapled white wrappers, in a Very Good grey dustwrapper printed in black and violet (spine lightly worn). Unpaginated. Q14788 Stapled Wrappers in Dustwrapper
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Broken Span. New Directions, Norfolk, 1941.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, second state (purple lettered/illustrated front cover) with only 100 copies of the first state printed. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain tanned, stapled wrappers, (32pp.), unpaginated; light toning to cover and page margins, else stiff wraps in fine condition; dust jacket with mild toning to spine and folds, upper spine fold starting, and a touch of wear to corner edges, else fine
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Broken Span. The Poet of the Month. New Directions, Norfork, CT, 1941.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Unpaginated (28 pp.). First Edition, 1941. Collectible Scarce Title. Thin Pamphlet. Price clipped. Previous owner's inked reference notes on ffep. 1/2" chip rear panel dj with faint edge wear, and age-toning to very edge of same. Faintly age-toned covers and prelims with a lightly creased top fore-edge, else, no wear. No markings, tight binding, pages clean, white, and bright. 6" x 9". Publisher's original light blue wrappers with the front cover stamped in mauve and black. In protective sleeve. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. (1941). . Wraps. Including: Harry Brown; Malcolm Cowley; Howard Baker; John Wheelwright; William Carlos Williams. . 8vo., 23pp., Cover yellowed with light foxing .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos.. The Broken Span.. New Directions; Norfolk, Connecticut; 1941., 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: This is the rarest of the bindings (A22, iii) described by Wallace (A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams; Wesleyan University Press; Middletown, Connecticut; 1968). Probably representing 100 of the total 2000 copies printed. Plain wraps, sewn binding, 20 leaves (first two and last two of differnet paper), 8 13/16 x 6 inches. Yellow paper dustcover, printed in black on the front panel. Book near fine (small, black, ink-stamped star on recto of second leaf, else fine). Dustcover very good (modest sunning; mild soiling). (3214024)
Seller: Boojum and Snark Books, Kanab, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in the publisher's orginal light blue wrappers with the front cover stamped in mauve and black. The spine has moderate sun fading and some tears, otherwise a very good copy.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Wrappers, edges slightly tanned, else fine. First edition. A catalogue of the first year's offerings in this distinguished series. Includes Williams's "Against the Sky," from "The Broken Span"
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Slim octavo. Unpaginated. Grey paper covered boards. Some chipping to the paper cover the spine and some toning the the edges of the boards. Toning to endpapers.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The pages of this well-kept copy are clean, free from ownership marks, crisp, and bright saving a little modest age-toning at the endpapers; the binding is tight, the hard cover gently rubbed at heel, head, and corners and showing a small spot at the upper front and some gentle staining along the spine, otherwise clean and lovely. The jacket is unclipped, shows the twelve forthcoming at the rear flap and description at the front, and is printed in black and fuschia consistent with the first printing. Though age-toned around edges, shows some small and faint handling smudges, is rubbed with some small open chips at the corners and spine tips, and shows just a little surface wear at the spine, it is nonetheless remarkably attractive and now, of course, protected in an archivally safe sleeve.
Seller: The Haunted Bookshop, LLC, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: First printing. Gray paper boards printed in black and fuschia, with a similarly printed dust jacket. One of 300 of a total of 2000. This small volume "contains fifteen poems" for the poem Patterson (sic): volume one of Paterson was published in 1946. Wallace A22. This is a review copy (stamped as usual by ND as such with the date on the ffep). In addition it is poet Ben Belitt's copy. Belitt taught at Bennington College for half a century, and is probably best know as a translator and editor of Pablo Neruda. Boards worn, tips bumped, in a lightly sunned jacket with two chips missing (one on the back panel 1 1/2"X3/4"). Still quite a nice copy, uncommon in boards, quite scarce as a review copy. Very Good in Chipped DJ.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$255.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Includes all twelve issues for 1941: William Carlos Williams, John Donne, Harry Brown, Howard Baker, Theodore Spencer, John Wheelwright, Josephine Miles, Delmore Schwartz, Dudley Fitts, F. T. Prince, Rainer Maria Rilke and Malcolm Cowley. Also includes the Prospectus and issue 1 for 1942, Robert Herrick, 14 booklets in all. Conditions range from G+ (3 issues) to NF (6 issues) , with VG representing a solid condition designation for the entire set. Nearly all copies are sunned at extremities to a greater or lesser extent, wrappers are starting to split at the spine in some cases, significantly so in a couple; in one case the wrapper is in two pieces. Owner name on half title page in only one case. In general the wrappers are clean, as are the pages, bindings are tight. Light staining to Baker wrappers, faint water spotting to Spencer. A few instances of small tears or light creasing on wrappers, and corner of front flap is slightly clipped in most copies. A solid set, scarce. . 8vo - 8" to 9" tall. A6
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 232 pages. First edition, first printing. The complete 1941 Poet Of The Month Series: Williams, Donne, Cowley, Rilke, Schwartz, Prince, Brown, etc. All fine books in wrappers in the near fine original slipcase with slight edge wear. A beautiful set!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Broken Span. New Directions, New York, 1941.
Price: US$1275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, first state, approx. 100 of the total 2000 copies printed [Wallace A22, iii]. Signed by Williams on the front free end-paper: post stroke signature. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain wrappers with sewn binding, (32pp.), unpaginated, in first issue, yellow dust jacket, printed in black on the front panel. Light age-toning to page margins, else plain stitched wrappers in fine condition; dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corners, soiling, spine fold separating, age-toning to spine, folds, and cover margins, else in fine condition.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.