Accession number
PML 187815
Creator
Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963.
Published
New York : Alcestis Press, 1935.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
"This first edition of An early martyr 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 Lane Latimer at his Alcestis Press in September, 1935. This copy is number ... Designed and printed by Lew Ney with Inkunabula type set by hand and the type has been distributed"--Colophon.
Library's copy is One of Five Final Pres Proof Copies.
"This first edition of An early martyr 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 Lane Latimer at his Alcestis Press in September, 1935. This copy is number ... Designed and printed by Lew Ney with Inkunabula type set by hand and the type has been distributed"--Colophon.
Library's copy is One of Five Final Pres Proof Copies.
Description
68 pages ; 24 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription in ink on front flyleaf: For Robert Park Mills from his brother (in the days that come we will be the lost stems of the branch -- diverse yet unified in our common stock and history) -- for him, from Norman Macleod Harlem, 1936; printer's inscription in ink on half title page: To Robert Park Mills from [rudimentary drawing/signature] Lew Ney, because of him and because of his brother, an upstanding man of vision, whose heart sticks out beyond his head and whose head blows[?] out [...illegible] and better poetry, Lew Ney, March 14, 1936; inscription in unknown hand in ink on page [8]: Bob -- There is no connection on the sacred testimony of Bill Williams (line connecting poems "A Poem for Norman Macleod" and "You Have Pissed Your Life"); author's signature in ink below colophon as issued; printer's inscription in ink below colophon: One of Five Final Pres Proof Copies, [rudimentary drawing/siganture] Lew Ney, [...illegible].
Provenance
Signed to Robert Park Mills; Carter Burden.
Binding
Stiff yellow wrappers printed in black.
Classification
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