[Rarebooks] FS: First American Publication of "The Red Wheelbarrow, " Signed by WCW

[Charles Agvent]

WILLIAMS, William Carlos MANIKIN NUMBER TWO. GO GO
Monroe Wheeler New York [1923] First Edition Bound in stiff string-tied wraps, 
printed in blue. Wallace A8. One of only 150 copies printed. Though not called 
for, this copy is SIGNED in red ink on the front endpaper in a neat but late 
hand by Williams. With the exception of "The Hermaphroditic Telephones," all the 
poems in this volume had appeared in SPRING AND ALL published in Paris in 1923. 
However, this chapbook marks the first publication in America of these poems 
including Williams's most famous poem, "The Red Wheelbarrow." Minor fading. Near 
Fine and scarce when signed.      $3000
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