[Rarebooks] FS: William Carlos Williams INSCRIBED to the Founder of Fairleigh Dickinson 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 the poet "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 Williams 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." Near Fine in a moderately 
worn, Very Good dustwrapper with a small stain on the front.
Peter Sammartino, the founder of Fairleigh Dickinson University and an 
early leader in the restoration of Ellis Island, was a neighbor and 
friend of Williams. Sammartino and his wife, both in their late 80s and 
suffering from ill health, committed murder-suicide in 1992. 
(#003579)        $750

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