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WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Spring and All. Dijon: Contact Publishing, 1923.
8o. (Some smoke damage [see below].) Original printed wrappers (spine partly lacking, some chipping rear panel with loss at bottom); cloth folding case. Provenance: Malcolm Cowley (presentation inscription); Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 280).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAMS TO MALCOLM COWLEY on the front free endpaper: "Malcolm Cowley from W.C. Williams, 1923." An ALS by Cowley laid-in notes that "Bill Williams inscribed this copy... & gave it to Matty Josephson to pass on to me (1923). Matty kept it for seven years, until the fire in which he nearly lost his life [cf. the account in Life Among the Surrealists]. He found the book considerably damaged amid the ruins of his apartment & passed it on to me at last, at last (1930)." Wallace A7.
8o. (Some smoke damage [see below].) Original printed wrappers (spine partly lacking, some chipping rear panel with loss at bottom); cloth folding case. Provenance: Malcolm Cowley (presentation inscription); Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 280).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAMS TO MALCOLM COWLEY on the front free endpaper: "Malcolm Cowley from W.C. Williams, 1923." An ALS by Cowley laid-in notes that "Bill Williams inscribed this copy... & gave it to Matty Josephson to pass on to me (1923). Matty kept it for seven years, until the fire in which he nearly lost his life [cf. the account in Life Among the Surrealists]. He found the book considerably damaged amid the ruins of his apartment & passed it on to me at last, at last (1930)." Wallace A7.