[Rarebooks] FS: Exceptional Inscribed AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS

[Charles Agvent]

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WILLIAMS,  William  Carlos.    THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY  OF  WILLIAM  CARLOS
WILLIAMS.   New  York:  Random  House  (1951).    Second  Printing.
            Incredible  copy  with  what amounts, in  the  form  of  an
INSCRIPTION,    to  an  autograph   letter  expressing  his   personal
philosophy regarding  words.  INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on  the
front  endpaper  in  his clear, pre-stroke hand for  Katherine  Davis:
"--as  much  as  I  have  used/words and  thought  of  them/and  their
contours    and/the  stresses  we  put   upon/them  I   can't   find a
single/reference  to  them,  a single/major reference to  them  in  my
poems  as/objects worthy of major/consideration -- and yet I/think  of
them always.  I suppose/they are so much part of my/thought, so  close
to    me,  that/I  can't  get  far   enough  away/from  them  to   see
them./William Carlos Williams/5-17-52."  Wallace A35.  Owner's name on
front  pastedown  under  the  dustwrapper   flap.  Light  edgewear  to
dustwrapper.  Near  Fine  in Very Good or  better  dustwrapper.  Truly
exceptional.                                                  $7500.00

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