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An early martyr and other poems. / By William Carlos Williams ætate suæ 52 (in September)
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 W6762 935e
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Williams, Florence H. (Florence Herman), -1976 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 68 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- [First (signed) edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Alcestis Press, 551 Fifth Avenue, 1935.
- Contents:
- An early martyr
- Flowers by the sea
- Item
- The locust tree in flower
- View of a lake
- To a Mexican pig-bank
- To a poor old woman
- The sadness of the sea
- Late for summer weather
- Proletarian portrait
- Tree and sky
- The raper from Passeneck
- Invocation and conclusion
- Genesis
- Solstice
- The yachts
- Young romance
- Hymn to love ended
- An elegy for D. H. Lawrence
- Sunday
- The catholic bells
- The auto ride
- Simplex sigilum veri
- The dead baby
- The immemorial wind
- The farmer
- The wind increases
- To be hungry is to be great
- A poem for Norman Macleod
- You have pissed your life.
- Notes:
- "This first edition ... is strictly limited to 165 copies, signed by the author. Twenty copies, numbered I-XX are printed on Duca di Modena, an Italian handmade paper for presentation purposes; 135 copies, numbered 1-135 on Strathmore permanent all-rag paper are for sale, and 10 copies, marked out of series, are for review. Published by J. Ronald Land Latimer at his Alcestis press in September, 1935."
- "Designed and printed by Lew Ney with inkunabula type set by hand and the type has been distributed."
- Stiff yellow paper wrapper printed in black on front cover and spine. "Green slipcase for 135 copies, yellow slipcase for 20 copies."--Cf. Wallace.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Floss, with love from Bill, 10/7/35".
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. XII signed by William Carlos Williams.
- Culture Class Collection copy (AC9 W6762 935e slipcase) is yellow slipcase.
- Cited in:
- Wallace, E. M. : Bibliography of Wlliam Carlos Williams, A16
- OCLC:
- 822946
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