[Rarebooks] FS: William Carlos Williams: SELECTED LETTERS, Inscribed to President of Rutgers University

[Charles Agvent]

WILLIAMS,  William  Carlos.  THE   SELECTED  LETTERS  OF
          WILLIAM   CARLOS  WILLIAMS.  New   York:  McDowell  Obolensky
          (1957).  First Edition. Wallace A35. INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by
          Williams    "For   my   good   friend/Peter   Sammartino/with
          affectionate  greetings" in his very shaky hand.  Sammartino,
          as president  of  Rutgers University, presented  an  Honorary
          Doctor  of  Laws  degree  to   the  poet  in  1959.  Williams
          contributed  a  poem to a pamphlet published in 1959 and  not
          noted by  Wallace  entitled  "Dinner in Honor  of  Dr.  Peter
          Sammartino."  Small stain on front of dustwrapper. Near  Fine
          in moderately worn, Very Good dustwrapper.           $1000.00


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