[Rarebooks] FS: William Carlos Williams First Commercial Book: THE TEMPERS, 1913

Charles Agvent charles at charlesagvent.com
Tue Apr 25 15:34:52 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

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