[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Complete Set of William Carlos Williams PATERSON, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $3300 NET

WILLIAMS, William Carlos. PATERSON (Books 1-5). New York: New 
Directions, (1946-58). First Edition. Five volumes, all First Editions 
in dustwrappers. The first four books limited to 1000 copies, the fifth 
to 3000. Williams's masterpiece, SIGNED by the poet in an early hand on 
the front free endpaper of the first volume and quite scarce thus. 
CONNOLLY 100, the one hundredth key book in Connolly's listing: "The 
long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound 
and Ginsberg, large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday, intimate 
Bonnard-like interiors, uproarious comedy ... his poem is written with a 
deep aversion to all forms of pretentiousness, rhetoric or prepared 
effects; it runs eddying along, broken by old letters, bits of local 
history and limpid love lyrics." Short tear to the front panel of the 
dustwrapper of the second volume, occasional internal tape 
reinforcement. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with only light wear 
and soiling. (#005962)        $4,500

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