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Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good/No Jacket. First Edition. Moderate-to-heavy rubbing to cover corners and spine tips; moderate irregular darkening of cover cloth. Two tiny stains to hinge area of front endpaper; prior owner name front endpaper. Otherwise clean and tight.
Seller: The Curiosity Book Shop, Hardwick, MA, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Rose. New Directions, [New York, 1950.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. p. {231]-245. Stapled wrappers. Slight age-toning, else fine. A separately issued supplement that was inadvertently omitted from the first edition of the author's *The Collected Later Poems*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good clean tight copy
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 240p +the Rose, Horace Mann School Edition, HARDCOVER, NO DW, BEAUTIFUL COPY, FINE
Seller: Juniper Point Books, Round Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Horace Mann School edition. Introductory note by Louis Untermeyer. Endpapers with a few small stains, topedge slightly foxed, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Laid in is *The Rose* in stapled self-wrappers, with a publisher's note stating that the poems in the supplement were accidentally omitted from this first printing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Later Poems. New Directions, 1950.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Horace Mann edition, with "The Rose" section laid in. One of 505 copies. Quarter maroon cloth over grey boards, with the Horace Mann seal on the front board. A miniscule tear in cloth at head of spine and some soiling to rear board reduce condition to Very Good.
Seller: a cool of books, Mastic, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Endpapers and covers lightly foxed, spine sunned with a few small stains, boards with modest edgewear, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. Laid in is *The Rose* in faintly foxed stapled self-wrappers, with a publisher's note stating that the poems in the supplement were accidentally omitted from this first printing. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good 12mo 8 1/4" x 5 1/2" red paper over board, stamped gilt lettering to spine, minor wear and lightening to bottom edge and tail, some yellowing to pages, otherwise, sharp tips, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. Good beige and black dustjacket, red and beige lettering to front and spine, black lettering to back, red and black lettering to interior flaps, protected by a paper-backed Brodart sleeve, price clipped, significant sunning and wear to edges, and tips, 3 1/2" tear down spine front edge, otherwise intact. [12] 240 + 4 pp., including 10 sections: The Wedge, The Clouds, Ballad of Faith, All That Is Perfect in Woman, The Rat, Choral: The Pink Church, Incognito, The Birth of Venus, 14 New Poems (1950), Two Pendants: for the Ears, and Index of Poems by Titles. From the interior flaps of dustjacket: "For this collection Dr. Williams has gathered together all of the poetry he has written in the decade of the Forties, except for the long poem 'Paterson', which is published separately." Heavy and oversized items may require additional shipping.
Seller: Amatoria Fine Art Books, IOBA, CALIBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Later Poems. New Directions, Norfolk, 1950.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stamped on upper cover: "Horace Mann School Edition." Loose at front 8-page supplement containing "Publisher's Note" and several poems accidentally omitted from the first edition.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Later Poems. New Directions, New York, 1950.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. some water staining to spine on dust wrapper and top front panel of dust wrapper.
Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8.25 x 5.25", red cloth, 240pp, spine ends bumped, extremities fraying, pp toned, in a toned and edge-worn/chipped, soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: New Directions Book, 1950. First Edition, First Printing, but missing supplemental section, The Rose. Octavo; publisher's full red cloth in cream and black dust jacket lettered in red, retaining original price ($3.00); [12],240pp. Light edge wear to jacket and board extremities, spine very slightly cocked, corners bumped, else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy overall. Missing The Rose, a supplemental pamphlet of poems accidentally omitted by the typist, which was laid into the first bindings. Later bindings have the poems bound in at the appropriate place, with a publisher's note on verso of the first leaf acknowledging the mistake. [Wallace A31; Harrison, Newth, & Candido p. 29].
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. COLLECTED POEMS LATER POEMS. New Directions, 1950.
Price: US$106.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 240. Red cloth in a chipped and worn dj. Wallace, A31.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos.. The Collected Later Poems.. New Directions, New York, 1950.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Horace Mann School Edition, Wallace A31c. A Fine copy in maroon cloth spine over pale grey textured paper covered boards, with Horace Mann School emblem stamped in maroon on front cover, in plain unprinted brown paper dustwrapper. Includes the stapled signature of "The Rose" laid in. 240pp. Q10341
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: Publishers cloth a little marked in scruffy worn, torn, chipped internally repaired dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue with The Rose published seperately. From the Library of Charles Tomlinson CBE (1927- 2015) a good friend of Williams with his Notes and marginal markings making this an attractive association copy. ISBN B0018HOTRO
Seller: Peter J. Hadley Bookseller ABA ILAB, Ludlow, United Kingdom
Williams, William Carlos.. The Collected Later Poems.. Norfolk New Directions Book ( ), 1950.
Price: US$220.41 + shipping
Description: 240 pp. Original cloth with dust jacket. First Edition, first printing (with "The Rose", a supplemental pamphlet of poems accidentally omitted by the typist, which was laid into the first bindings). - Fine copy. Unclipped jacket with only light wear. The "Rose" rear cover mildly dusty. Gewicht (Gramm): 422
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Williams, William Carlos. The Collected Later Poems. New Directions, (Norfolk), 1950.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 240pp; separately printed pamphlet "The Rose" laid in at rear; first binding of red cloth. Wallace A31a. Few spots to cover, else fine in a very lightly used dust jacket with a small chip to rear.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Separately printed 8-leaf pamphlet entitled The Rose laid in. Original cloth-backed publisher's boards; a fine copy. First edition, with the Horace Mann School binding. The inserted pamphlet consists of a group of poems that were accidentally omitted in the first printing due to an oversight by the typist. Poems include A rosebush is an unlikely garden, The birdsong and Writer's prologue to a play in verse. Wallace, A31.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
WEST, NATHANAEL. The Day Of The Locust. New York New Directions 1950, 1950.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition - Thus. Hardbound. From the library of Abby Perelman, the niece of Nathanael West and daughter of the great American humorist, author, and screenwriter S.J. Perelman and Laura Perelman, Nathanael WestÕs sister. With AbbyÕs signature ÒAbby Perelman Ô53Ó on the front free endpaper. With an introduction by Richard B. Gehman. Very good copy with some slight edge wear to the green cloth in a torn and dust soiled dust jacket with fading to the spine. The basis of the classic Hollywood film directed by John Schlesinger, starring Karen Black, Donald Sutherland, Burgess Meredith, William Atherton, Geraldine Page, Richard Dysart, and Bo Hopkins. Romance, film industry intrigue, alcoholism, and blind ambition - whatÕs not to love? As Dorothy Parker, from direct experience of all of the above, once commented: ÒItÕs brilliant, savage, and arresting - a truly good novel.Ó Sidney Joseph Perelman, popularly known as S. J. Perelman (1904 Ð 1979), was one of the most widely read literary icons of the Golden Age of American Humor. His New Yorker pieces, fiction, and collected essays are legendary for their biting wit and mastery of caricature and language. He was the brother-in-law of the writer Nathanael West with whom he shared a close relationship up until WestÕs death in a car accident in 1940 at age thirty-seven, and whose memory and literary reputation he devoted himself to maintaining.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.