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WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The cod head. Harvest Press, [n.p.], 1932.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof sheet, pale blue paper, folded once. Limited edition, one of 100 copies printed at the Harvest Press for the friends of Milton Abernethy. This copy has neither the place nor the date printed on the title, and the dedication and copy number are different from the first edition of this leaflet (Wallace A, 14). Not in Wallace.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: One of 100 copies. Bifolium (24.75cm); sheet of pale blue stock, folded once to create a 4pp pamphlet, with text and pictorial elements printed in black. Trivial wear, else very Near Fine. An uncorrected proof sheet for Williams's 1932 poem, first published in Contempo, and printed by The Harvest Press as a signed, limited edition pamphlet, with a print run of 125 copies. The proof sheet contains an entirely different colophon, and is not cited by Wallace (A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams). cf.WALLACE A14.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. 1932 The Cod Head Signed by American Poet William Carlos Williams. , 1932.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This 1932 publication of The Cod Head is one of a limited edition of 125 and is signed by the publisher of Contempo, Milton A. Abernathy and the poet, William Carlos Williams. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an American poet, writer, and physician. He is associated with modernist and imagist poetry and was the chief of pediatrics at Passaic General Hospital from 1924 until his death in 1963. Green paper wraps with deckled fore-edges, printed title label on front wrap, 4 pages. Published by Harvest Press in San Francisco "for the friends of Contempo" (1932). 10" x 6 3/8". Condition: Very good condition.
Seller: Dennis Holzman Antiques, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. The Cod Head. Harvest Press, San Francisco, California, 1932.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing of the first edition, limited to only 125 copies. this copy is additionally signed by William Carlos Williams. Original wrappers. Minor wear/light creasing to cover and faint age-toning to page margins, else in fine condition. From the collection of California bibliophile, Melba Berry Bennett, with Bennett's bookplate laid-in to front endpaper ( Melba Berry Bennett: was a poet, writer, bibliophile, and recipient of the California Commonwealth Club's Silver Medal in 1966 for the Jeffers' biography).
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.