[Rarebooks] FS: William Carlos Williams First Commercial Book: THE TEMPERS, 1913
Charles Agvent
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Tue Apr 25 15:25:15 EDT 2023
WILLIAMS, William Carlos. THE TEMPERS. London: Elkin Mathews, 1913.
First Edition. Original cream boards, gilt-lettered on front cover and
spine (3-3/4" x 5"). Williams's second volume of poetry, and the first
by a commercial publisher, after POEMS, published privately in 1909 in a
very small limitation. Pencil signature on the front endpaper and a few
pencil marks in text by Wright S[altus] Ludington, noted art collector
and a founding member of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Some soiling
and wear with slight loss of paper on spine. Very Good, lacking the
uncommon glassine dustwrapper. (#021312) $750
https://www.charlesagvent.com/pages/books/021312/william-carlos-williams/the-tempers
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