WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson. Volume 3. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1949.

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Description: 8vo. Original tan cloth; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 999 copies. Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Don Paquette - Book IV now at the printer. / William Carlos Williams / 11/16/50." According to Mariani's biography of Williams, this was the night that Williams was fêted by Los Angeles Bookseller Bob Wettereau, while Williams and his wife Flossie were on a west coast tour. "Williams got in a reading of his poetry to a large audience at UCLA that Wednesday afternoon [the 15th] and attended a party in his honor given by the bookdealer, Bob Wetterau, at Flax's bookstore on the sixteenth, where Anais Nin, Man Ray, and Donald Paquette had gone to hear him. He even recited some of his poems into a tape recorder for Eyvind" (Paul Mariani, William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked, p. 625). The poet Donald J. Paquette had a correspondence with Williams: the Beinecke at Yale holds 22 letters from Williams to Paquette. When one of Paquette's poems was published in the January 1936 issue of Poetry, his biography read: "Donald J. Paquette, now living precariously in Los Angeles, is another proletarian poet. He served in the war and came out 'broken in health and spirit,' but he writes and prints many poems, some of which have had a radio audience." Wallace A30. A fine, well-preserved copy

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WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Paterson: Book Three. New Directions, (New York), 1949.

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Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in modestly spine-toned else near fine dustwrapper. Signed by Williams on the front fly in his post-stroke hand. *Connolly 100*.

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