Accession number
PML 187802
Creator
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
Published
Norfolk, Conn. : New Directions, [1956]
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
"This edition ... which was printed especially for the Horace Mann School, is limited to fifty copies, each of which is signed by the author"--Page [5].
Library's copy is no. 12.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
"This limited edition ... contains a hitherto unpublished poem, titled 'Sonnet in search of an author,' and the cycle of poems entitled 'The rose.'"--Page [6].
"A New Directions book"
Published in 1956. Cf. Wallace.
A note on William Carlos Williams for the Horace Mann School edition by Louis Untermeyer (pages [17-19]).
Includes index (pages 231-240).
"The rose" section of poems is bound after the index as pages [231]-245.
"The poems of the section 'The Rose' were omitted from the first printing of 'The Collected Later Poems' through an oversight on the part of the typist"--Page [232].
Library's copy is no. 12.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
"This limited edition ... contains a hitherto unpublished poem, titled 'Sonnet in search of an author,' and the cycle of poems entitled 'The rose.'"--Page [6].
"A New Directions book"
Published in 1956. Cf. Wallace.
A note on William Carlos Williams for the Horace Mann School edition by Louis Untermeyer (pages [17-19]).
Includes index (pages 231-240).
"The rose" section of poems is bound after the index as pages [231]-245.
"The poems of the section 'The Rose' were omitted from the first printing of 'The Collected Later Poems' through an oversight on the part of the typist"--Page [232].
Description
[20], 240, [231]-245 pages ; 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Author's signature in ink on page [5] as issued.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Burgundy cloth stamped in gilt on front with black label stamped in gilt on spine.
Classification
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Department