WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Go Go. Manikin No. 2. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. 12o. Original decorated wrappers (some minor soiling); cloth slipcase. Provenance: booklabel of Shakespeare & Co. on inner rear wrapper; Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 281). FIRST EDITION, one of 150 copies. Wallace A8. --WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Cod Head. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Harvest Press for friends of Contempo, 1932. 8o. 4 pp. Original grey-green wrappers, printed title label on cover (some slight rusting from staples); tan quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 125 copies, SIGNED AT END BY WILLIAMS. With an inscription beneath the colophon, possibly in Williams' hand: "For the only one I know who understands the race problem-- from a Southern, [initials indistinct]." Wallace A14. (2)

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WILLIAMS, William Carlos. Go Go. Manikin No. 2. New York: Monroe Wheeler, 1923. 12o. Original decorated wrappers (some minor soiling); cloth slipcase. Provenance: booklabel of Shakespeare & Co. on inner rear wrapper; Jonathan Goodwin (his sale, part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 29 March 1977, lot 281). FIRST EDITION, one of 150 copies. Wallace A8. --WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Cod Head. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Harvest Press for friends of Contempo, 1932. 8o. 4 pp. Original grey-green wrappers, printed title label on cover (some slight rusting from staples); tan quarter morocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, one of 125 copies, SIGNED AT END BY WILLIAMS. With an inscription beneath the colophon, possibly in Williams' hand: "For the only one I know who understands the race problem-- from a Southern, [initials indistinct]." Wallace A14. (2)

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