The great American novel / by William Carlos Williams.

Accession number: 
PML 187825
Author: 
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
Published: 
Paris : Three Mountains Press, 1923.
Description: 
79 pages ; portrait ; 27 cm
Credit: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes: 

First edition.
"Three hundred copies of this book were printed on Rives hand-made paper and the type distributed"--Page [8].
"Finished printing in May, 1923, by Herbert Clarke and William Bird, at Paris and in St. Louis' Island"--Colophon.
Library's copy is number 1.
Library's copy is housed in black cloth clamshell box.

Binding: 
Grey cloth backed in green linen printed in gold.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Author's inscription in ink on front flyleaf: [signed] William Carlos Williams -- looking forward to seeing your bibliography preface to the works of Gertrude Stein, Oct. 09/40; former owner's inscription in blue ink on front flyleaf: Julian Sawyer, 280 Fort Washington Ave., New York, N.Y., Apt. 31, Wash. Hgts., 9-8260.

Provenance: 
Julian Sawyer; Carter Burden.
Department: