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Description: signed by author on the front end paper, gilt on spine, foxing, pages yellowing, text block clean, princeton antiques bookplate on inside of front cover, dj torn at edges 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: 1940 EDITION: 382
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. In the Money. New Directions, Connecticut, 1940.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine lettering bright. Top and bottom edges sunned in spite of jacket. Extremely small flecks of white on back cover. Endpapers heavily foxed, text block clean - although age-toned. Inscription on front free endpaper, one name of the recipients is scratched out. Edges of jacket are chipped and torn.
Seller: Book Stop, Inc., Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. White Mule [with] In the Money. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn, 1940.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Each book the first printing, octavo size, 303 and 382 pp. respectively, "In the Money" inscribed by Williams. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), although a medical doctor by profession, was likely one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. A leading poet of the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and H.D., an inspiration to the beats and the San Francico Renaissance, he "was known as an experimenter, an innovator, a revolutionary figure in American poetry" (n.b., quote from the web site of the Poetry Foundation). "The White Mule" is the first novel in what would become a trilogy, following the Stecher family; although a trilogy, each book is a complete novel by itself. While WCW is primarily thought of as a poet, his "novels are of great interest. They are important books in their own right, because they present with a poet's insight, and in a prose style of striking originality, aspects of American life which few other writers have approached" (n.b., this quote and the one below from the web site of New Directions). "In the Money" is the second book in the trilogy and is "Joe Stecher's success story - the tale of his fight against graft and injustice to found his own business and get 'into the money'." This volume inscribed by WCW "To my friend Bob Wetterau / William Carlos Williams" (undated). ___DESCRIPTION: "White Mule": bound in white linen cloth over boards, black lettering stamped onto the front board and spine, title page with press device and triple ruled border; octavo size (7 3/4" by 5 1/4"), pagination: [i-vii] [1, blank] [1] 2-293 [1, blank] [1, publisher's ad]; in a dust jacket of white paper with red lettering and horizontal rules, the flaps with a quote praising Williams by Ezra Pound followed by summary of the book, original price of $2.50 at the bottom of the front flap, back panel with publisher's ads. "In the Money: bound in full navy blue cloth over boards, silver lettering on the spine, the inscription by WCW on the FFEP in black ink as set forth above, title page design matches that of "White Mule"; octavo size (7 3/8" by 5 1/2"), pagination: [1-8] 9-382; dust jacket in shades of blue and white, summary of book on front flap with original price of $2.50 at the bottom of the flap, the back flap with other WCW titles by New Directions with short summaries and review blurbs. ___CONDITION: Both volumes near fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, strong, square text blocks with solid hinges, the interiors clean and bright, and other than the WCW inscription in the second volume entirely free of prior owner markings; light dustiness to both volumes, both very slightly cocked, and "Money" with a single leaf with a vertical crease at the fore-edge (pp. 117-118) not at all touching the text, the page following with a few small marks of soil. Both jackets very good, "Mule" with some overall edgewear (mostly noticeable at the head of the spine and the top where the panels meet the flaps), overall light soil, sunning and a few spots to the spine, sunning around the perimeters; "Money" with light overall edgewear, some sunning to the spine, overall light dustiness. Overall, both volumes near fine in very good or better jackets. ___CITATION: "White Mule" Wallace A18, and "In the Money" Wallace A21. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Seller: Swan's Fine Books, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Walnut Creek, CA, U.S.A.
William Carlos Williams. In the Money. New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy In Like Jacket First Edition (1940) $2.50 on Flap. Rare Presentation Copy."For Stephani Desai With Love From G.B. M. William Carlos Williams." Excellent Fresh Copy very Scarce Signed
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Williams, Wiliam Carlos. In the Money: White Mule - Part II. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; inscribed by Williams to Norman Mcleod: "To / Norman Mcleod / - with expectations / of the best for the new / novel - / William Carlos Williams / Oct 29/40". Publisher's indigo cloth, lettered in silver. Very good, with some light sunning and a slight lean to the spine, a touch of fraying to the spine ends, small spot to the rear board, light offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise clean interior. A very sturdy copy, signed by the author. Williams inscribed this copy of In the Money to his long-time friend and fellow poet Norman Macleod. In this inscription, Williams references Macleod's second novel, The Bitter Roots, which was published in 1941. The two men maintained a long-term correspondence, and Williams edited several of Macleod's collections of poetry. A fan of the younger poet's verse, Williams professed his admiration poetically with "A Poem for Norman Macleod." In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, Macleod founded the Briarcliff Quarterly magazine and was the first director for the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. In the Money is the second volume in Williams' trilogy featuring the Stecher family. Inspired by his wife's family history and his experiences working in pediatrics, Williams uses this trilogy to examine the life of a European immigrant family in New York, and specifically focuses on Flossie, the Stecher's young daughter whose birth begins the trilogy. In the Money follows Flossie's father Joe Stecher as he establishes a printing company and moves to the suburbs of New Jersey as an endeavor to cultivate a more middle-class life for his family. This novel is preceded by White Mule (1937) and followed by The Build-Up (1952).
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Williams, William Carlos. In the Money: White Mule - Part II. Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Presentation copy; inscribed by Williams to Norman Mcleod: "To / Norman Mcleod / - with expectations / of the best for the new / novel - / William Carlos Williams / Oct 29/40". Publisher's indigo cloth, lettered in silver. Very good, with some light sunning and a slight lean to the spine, a touch of fraying to the spine ends, small spot to the rear board, light offsetting to the endpapers, otherwise clean interior. A very sturdy copy, signed by the author. Williams inscribed this copy of In the Money to his long-time friend and fellow poet Norman Macleod. In this inscription, Williams references Macleod's second novel, The Bitter Roots, which was published in 1941. The two men maintained a long-term correspondence, and Williams edited several of Macleod's collections of poetry. A fan of the younger poet's verse, Williams professed his admiration poetically with "A Poem for Norman Macleod." In addition to writing his own poetry and prose, Macleod founded the Briarcliff Quarterly magazine and was the first director for the Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. In the Money is the second volume in Williams' trilogy featuring the Stecher family. Inspired by his wife's family history and his experiences working in pediatrics, Williams uses this trilogy to examine the life of a European immigrant family in New York, and specifically focuses on Flossie, the Stecher's young daughter whose birth begins the trilogy. In the Money follows Flossie's father Joe Stecher as he establishes a printing company and moves to the suburbs of New Jersey as an endeavor to cultivate a more middle-class life for his family. This novel is preceded by White Mule (1937) and followed by The Build-Up (1952).
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.