The broken span / William Carlos Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963, author.

Contributor:

Forgue, Norman W., book designer.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Norman Press, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Poet of the month.

Poet of the month

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Williams, Florence H. (Florence Herman), -1976 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 1)

Nitzsche, George Erazmus, 1874-1961 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Farrell, James T. (James Thomas), 1904-1979 (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Schleifer, Edith (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy 2)

Schleifer, Steven (donor) (LIBRA Rare copy 2)

Schleifer, Benjamin (honoree) (LIBRA Rare copy 2)

Physical Description:

[32] pages ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Chicago : Printed ... by the Norman Press ..., December 1940.

Place of Publication:

Norfolk, Connecticut : New Directions, [1941]

Contents:

A love song

The last words of my English grandmother

Impromptu: the suckers

A marriage ritual

The men

For the poem Patterson

Illegitimate things

The predicter of famine

A portrait of the times

Against the sky

The last turn.

Notes:

"The type for this brochure has been composed in Linotype Baskerville and printed by letterpress on Town Crier Text by the Norman Press. Title page decoration by Paul Hazelrigg. Design and typography by Norman W. Forgue. Completed at Chicago during December 1940"--Colophon.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 1 inscribed "Only ten years ago! Well, look at me! I still love you. Bill".

Culture Class Collection copy 1 has pencilled corrections.

Culture Class Collection copy 1 is bound in white paper covers with gray paper wrapper printed in black and fuschia (Wallace A22ii).

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 is hardback stamped "Review Copy. Publication Date Jan 1941". See Wallace A22i.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has autograph of George Nitzsche. U. of Pa. M.D. 1906 with presentation bookplate on front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare copy presented to the Penn Libraries by James T. Farrell.

LIBRA Rare copy in Wallace's ii binding.

LIBRA Rare copy 2 presented to the Penn Libraries by Edith and Steven Schleifer in memory of Benjamin Schleifer.

LIBRA Rare copy 2: dust jacket retained.

Cited in:

Wallace, E.M. Bibliography of William Carlos Williams ; A22

OCLC:

2947135