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1952BBO41<p><b>WILLIAMS</b> Garth:</p><p><b><i>Charlotte's Web</i></b>: <i>"A Director's Meeting"</i>. 1952</p><p>Original ink drawing as reproduced in <i>Charlotte's Web</i> by E B White</p><p>New York: Harper & Bros 1952 illustrated on <b>page 88</b>;</p><p>The image was also used sometimes as the frontispiece in later reprints of this title such as the Anniversary edition.</p><p>Titled in pencil and Signed in full in ink at lower left by the artist.</p><p><br /></p> books
1945VBF40<p><b>WILLIAMS</b> Garth 1912–1996</p><p><i><b>Stuart Little – Endpaper Designs</b></i> 1945</p><p>Pencil and ink conceived for the endpapers with china white</p><p>Two designs: Stuart Little on the river bank his right leg on a log his boat docked behind him; the other: a view of the winding river seen from the perspective of a perched bird.</p><p>Each drawing measures 5-1/2 x 4-1/2 inches on larger paper framed.</p><p>Well-rendered designs bordered by paneled margins executed in ink for the endpapers of the first edition of <i>Stuart Little</i> by E B White</p><p>The published version prints these images in reverse in the color green.</p> Harper & Bros books
19462118New York: New Directions 1946. First edition. Original cloth original dust jacket. Fine/Fine. FIRST EDITIONS AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY: 
Theodore Roethke's copies of Books III and V with Book III inscribed in Roethke's hand "Ted Roethke's book gift of W.C. Williams" and Book V inscribed by Williams "Ted from Bill". With first editions of the remaining volumes. William Carlos Williams was one of the most influential figures in Theodore Roethke's creative life. "At a time when Theodore Roethke was finding his poetic voice he called William Carlos Williams 'my toughest mentor.'" From 1940-1948 as Roethke was developing his poetry he submitted his latest work to Williams to critique. Williams repeatedly responded candidly and forcefully issuing "a series of challenges to Roethke and these challenges changed the direction and scope of Roethke's art" Robert Kusch "My Toughest Mentor": Theodore Roethke and William Carlos Williams. Roethke's own volumes of Paterson - Williams's masterpiece - must have held extraordinary significance for him and unite two of the towering figures in American poetry. Each first edition of Paterson had a very limited print run: Books I-IV one of only 1000 copies Book V one of 3000 copies. New York: New Directions 1946-1958. Tall octavo original cloth original dust jackets. A fine set with only the most trivial wear. New Directions hardcover books
1949D16273New York: New Directions 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First printing first state with the incorrect copyright page "Copyright 1948 / New Directions". One of 20 to 50 copies thus out of a total of 1500 copies printed on laid paper by Peter Beilenson. "Originally scheduled for release of 27 October 1948 One Arm was not published until January the following year because of an error on the copyright page.Between late October and January 1949 New Directions attempted to recover and correct all copies with the incorrect copyright notice.According to James Laughlin of New Directions and Andreas Brown however between 20 and 50 copies escaped correction." Crandell A9.I.a1. This is author Paul Bowles's copy with Williams's presentation inscription on the front flyleaf" "To Paul and Morocco - With Love Tennessee." Williams has inscribed the book again at a later date on the front free endpaper: "Many hands all empty on the covers meaning what Tennessee to Paul Tangiers 1962." With Bowles's signature on the front free endpaper. One loose signature with the corrected copyright page is laind in. Foreedge a little soied spine a little cocked covers slightly rubbed otherwise a fine copy in broken publisher's slipcase. A wonderful association copy preserved in a custom-made folding cloth box. <br/><br/>In December of 1948 Jane Bowles left Tangier and went to Gibraltar to meet her husband Paul Tennessee Williams and Frank Merlo Williams's lover. The three of them were arriving on the SS Saturnia. Williams brought with him his new Buick Roadster and the four of them toured Spain for a few days before crossing the straits to Tangier. The weather in both Spain and Tangier was rainy and after two weeks in Tangier the group headed to Fez. See An Invisible Spectator - A Biography of Paul Bowles by Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno Weidenfeld & Nicolson NY 1989 pages 280-1. Although Williams visited Tangier on several occasions it seems quite possible that Williams first inscribed tghe book on this visit. Subsequent visits took place in the 50's and 60's. New Directions hardcover books
194722908New York: New Directions 1947. First edition. Pink boards; virtually as new in dust jacket unfaded and with no wear. One of the fabled Norman Unger copies purchased new by Williams's friend the book collector Unger then wrapped and stored for 30 years. Cover and jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Crandell A 5.1.a. <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books
194787896New York: New Directions 1947. Early printing of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. association copy inscribed or signed by several cast members for producer Danny Selznick. Signed by Marlon Brando Kim Hunter Jessica Tandy and Karl Malden. Inscribed by Kim Hunter on the verso of the first blank: "Love and best wishes always Danny- one of my Favorite people- Kim." Selznick's ownership inscription on the lower corner of the half-title page. Danny Selznick is a producer and the youngest son of David O. Selznick; it was Selznick's mother Irene Mayer Selznick who produced the stage version of Streetcar Named Desire<i>;</i> it was she who recommended to film producer Charles Feldman to cast Kim Hunter in the screen version. Very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed by Brando and the other cast members. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. The London production opened in 1949 with Bonar Colleano Vivien Leigh and Renee Asherson and was directed by Laurence Olivier. "No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming--and comical!--drama structure" Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover books
19477342New York: New Directions 1947. First edition of Williams' classic play which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Octavo original illustrated boards. Signed by Tennessee Williams on the front free endpaper. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket which has had some expert restoration to the extremities. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A Streetcar Named Desire received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The play opened on Broadway on December 3 1947 and closed on December 17 1949 in the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Broadway production was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. "No one dared approach this new thing without caution. They had just witnessed something unprecedented on the stage a high-pitched jagged alarming--and comical!--drama structure" Sam Staggs. It is often regarded among the finest of American plays of the 20th century. New Directions hardcover books
19479097New Directions 1947. WILLIAMS Tennessee. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. NY: New Directions 1947. Tall 8vo. pictorial purple boards in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Williams and actress Jessica Tandy on the front endpaper. Only a mere 5080 copies were printed. One of the most difficult if not the most difficult and desirable books to obtain in the Williams canon. Tandy portrayed Blanche DuBois in the original Broadway production also starring Marlon Brando Kim Hinter and Karl Malden. Tandy garnered four Tony awards for her performance. Unquestionably one of the great masterpieces of modern American drama and the first play to win Williams a Pulitzer Prize. Near fine few very tiny dings to upper & lower covers little tanning to endpapers; text clean & tight; minor soil & few very short tears little fading spine & small light stain front cover; $2.75 price is present on the front flap d/j. A nice copy!! <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover books
19503445981950. Softcover. Near Fine. Carbon typescript. Quarto. 75pp. but missing final two pages. Sheets bradbound in the blue "Liebling-Wood" folder of Williams's agent Audrey Wood. The light blue wrappers a bit worn with a couple tears and the original brads replaced very good plus. It's labeled "Third draft Europe September 1950" on the first sheet along with a pencil notation that reads "not final draft." This copy also includes the epigraph from the poem "Anabasis" on the first sheet that was used intermittently by Williams throughout his many draft. The Rose Tattoo is Williams's first full-length comedy which he called his "love-play to the world." It concerns a Sicilian widow from the Gulf Coast and her attempts to protect her attractive young daughter while dealing with her own renewed passions. This draft was completed after learning that Elia Kazan had passed on directing the play to do a film with Arthur Miller a snub that greatly disheartened Williams. Nevertheless the play which debuted on Broadway in early 1951 won the Tony Awards for best play as well as best actor and best actress awards for Eli Wallach and Maureen Stapleton. A 1955 film version was also a success starring Burt Lancaster and Anna Magnani who was won the Oscar for best actress. unknown books
1965122576New York: The Viking Press 1965. First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo original half cloth. Presentation copy warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Bob and Margaret with much love- John Williams Christmas 1970 Denver." The recipients were close friends of the author. Near fine in an excellent dust jacket with some toning to the spine. Jacket design by Ellen Raskin. John Williams's luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American but as an unlikely existential hero standing like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper in stark relief against an unforgiving world. "One of the great unheralded 20th-century American novels .Almost perfect" Bret Easton Ellis. The Viking Press hardcover books
196031014New York: The MacMillan Company 1960. First edition of Williams' second novel. Octavo original cloth. Association copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper "For Mary Beth and Ed Twining with much affection- John Williams." Ed Twining was an English professor at The University of Denver where John Williams also taught and was the director of the creative writing program. The two were lifelong friends. Near fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Gilbert Etheredge. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A nice association. "Harsh and relentless yet muted in tone Butcher's Crossing paved the way for Cormac McCarthy. It was perhaps the first and best revisionist western" The New York Times Book Review. It is the 1870s and Will Andrews fired up by Emerson to seek "an original relation to nature" drops out of Harvard and heads west. He washes up in Butcher's Crossing a small Kansas town on the outskirts of nowhere. Butcher's Crossing is full of restless men looking for ways to make money and ways to waste it. Before long Andrews strikes up a friendship with one of them a man who regales Andrews with tales of immense herds of buffalo ready for the taking hidden away in a beautiful valley deep in the Colorado Rockies. He convinces Andrews to join in an expedition to track the animals down. The journey out is grueling but at the end is a place of paradisal richness. Once there however the three men abandon themselves to an orgy of slaughter so caught up in killing buffalo that they lose all sense of time. Winter soon overtakes them: they are snowed in. Next spring half-insane with cabin fever cold and hunger they stagger back to Butcher's Crossing to find a world as irremediably changed as they have been. "Butcher's Crossing dismantles the myth of the west revealing a horror story about the grinding day to day of just surviving.a restrained and gorgeous lyricism.even in its softer moments it doesn't overdo anything and the moral criticism is in the precision of the language the now-famous simple and elegant Williams prose" Bret Easton Ellis. The MacMillan Company hardcover books
19962237np: np 1996. First edition. nb. Fine. EXTREMELY RARE LITHOGRAPH SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR GARTH WILLIAMS OF THE COVER ART FOR E.B. WHITE'S CLASSIC STUART LITTLE. WITH HAND-COLORING BY WILLIAMS. Pulled by hand from the original pen and ink drawing by Garth Williams. Marked "Bon à Tirer" "ready for press" in pencil by the printer. This image was acquired directly from the lithographer; Williams added the delicate gray hand-coloring in this image as a guide for the lithographer to follow in coloring the full edition. Williams died in 1996 just after this "ready for press" lithograph was printed; therefore no copies of the final printing of approximately 300 were signed. 

 11.25 x 15 inches. Fine condition. A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF ONE OF GARTH WILLIAMS'S MOST DESIRABLE IMAGES. np unknown books
1955102375New York: New Directions 1955. First edition first issue of one of Williams's best-known works and his personal favorite. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Tennessee Williams on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing to the extremities. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Rare and desirable signed. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers vying for their dying father's inheritance amid a whirlwind of sexuality untethered in the person of Maggie the Cat. The play also daringly showcased the burden of sexuality repressed in the agony of her husband Brick Pollitt. In spite of the public controversy Cat stirred up it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Drama Critics Circle Award for that year. "Tennessee Williams never wrote a more explosive play than Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" Howard Kissel. It was the basis for the 1958 film directed by Richard Brooks starring Elizabeth Taylor Paul Newman and Burl Ives. New Directions hardcover books
1967140939345Los Angeles: Self Published 1967. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Signed by Edward Ruscha on the first blank page. Cream colored wraps in spiral binding. About Fine with two top spirals indented and minor shelf wear to covers. A collaboration between Ed Ruscha Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell in which they painstakingly document dropping a standard office-model Royal typewriter from a speeding Buick in the desert. One of 1000 copies originally printed. [Self Published] unknown books
1965140941166Denver CO: Verb Publications 1965. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. 47 pp. Bound in publisher's grey cloth over boards stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing light soiling and light wear to cloth light browning to endsheets. In a Near Fine dust jacket with several short edge tears toning small stain to spine and small chip at foot. Williams'collection of poetry which was published the same year as Stoner printed in an edition of merely 425 copies and extremely scarce in the original dust jacket. Verb Publications unknown books
1990140940903No Place: No Publisher 1990. Near Fine. A three-ring binder of photographs of Tennessee Williams and people and places related to his work compiled by fan Jackie Koenig over many years. The majority 40 to be exact are publicity photos of Williams himself; four of these are signed by Williams. These show Williams on TV programs at Key West taken by Don Pinder at his library in 1955 at the Showcase Theatre in San Francisco in 1976 taken by Jere Hageman by her on their versos and at play openings. Koening has provided occasional contextual details on laid in slips such as "I attended this preview and Tennessee Williams sat behind me."<br /> <br /> A copy of the March 9 1962 issue of Time magazine is included. It features a portrait of Williams on the cover and is also signed. Some photos related to Williams' work are included such as signed photos of actors in productions of his work like Burl Ives and Ben Cooper. A set of 11 original color photos by Emily Roseland from 1997 capture the Puerto Vallarta set of Night of the Iguana.<br /> <br /> A visual documentary of the later years of the famous American playwright. [No Publisher] unknown books
1913140937324London: Elkin Matthews 1913. First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by William Carlos Williams on the half-title page in a shaky post-stroke signature. Publisher's pale yellow paper-covered boards lettered in gilt on the upper board and spine. Fine in glassine wrapper which is lightly wrinkled and lightly edge worn with small chips at the spine ends. A wonderful signed copy of the poet's scarce second book. Elkin Matthews unknown books
1948140938798Denver CO: Alan Swallow 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's coarse blue cloth with titles in dark blue on the spine. Near Fine with light rubbing to cloth at tips light toning to pages. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket edge-worn lightly soiled and lightly toned. The author's scarce first novel. Alan Swallow unknown books
1948140937788Denver: Alan Sparrow 1948. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. 140 pp. Bound in publisher's coarse blue cloth with titles in dark blue on the spine. Near Fine with hinge exposed at half-title page though binding remains solid. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light edge wear light fading to spine several small scuffs and several small patches of abrasion. The author's scarce first novel. Alan Sparrow unknown books
1949140939038Denver CO: Alan Swallow 1949. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing. Signed by John Williams and warmly inscribed to a former owner. Bound in publisher's paper-covered boards; in unclipped dust jacket. Very Good with a stain along the bottom edge throughout else Fine. In a Very Good dust jacket with several stains scuffs to the rear panel light wear along top edge and toning to the spine. The author's book of poems rare as hens' teeth. Alan Swallow unknown books
1965140938385Denver CO: Verb Publications 1965. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. 47 pp. Signed by John Williams on the front free end paper and inscribed to a former owner Thomas McClean. Bound in publisher's grey cloth over boards stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good. Rubbing to extremities and gilt. Previous owner has written his name to front paste down and added three words on the contents page. Williams' extremely scarce collection of poetry which was published the same year as Stoner printed in an edition of merely 425 copies. Verb Publications unknown books
1932107290Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket with First Printing stated on the copyright page the original price of $2.50 still on the front flap of the dust jacket and the spine virtually unfaded which is unusual for this book. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas hardcover books
1956140941339San Francisco: City Lights Pocket Bookshop 1956. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first issue with Lucien Carr listed on the dedication page and a period after Harlem on the rear cover. Publisher's black wraps printed in blue with white wraparound printed in black. Very Good. toning and light soiling to wraps bottom corner lightly bumped. An undisputed cornerstone of beat poetry Ginsberg's initial inspiration came from a terrifying vision he had during a San Francisco peyote trip. The poem defined a generation. City Lights Pocket Bookshop unknown books
1952140939952New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1952. Reprint. Near Fine/Very Good. but ca. 1970-85. 184 pp. Reprint. Signed by E. B. White and inscribed to former owners Jane and Bill Langton on the half-title page. Jane was a children's book author whose 1981 novel The Fledgling received a Newbery Honor just as White had won for Charlotte's Web. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper-laminate covered boards. Fine with light wear at corners and spine ends in a Near Fine dust jacket lightly soiled spine-toned and with tape to the blindside repairing some minor fraying to the spine ends. A nice association copy between two Newbery Honor authors. Harper & Row unknown books
1988259158Easthampton: Cheloniidae Press 1988. Limited State Proof Edition; numbered "III" of 5 copies. Quarter Leather. Fine binding. Alan James Robinson; Calligraphy by Suzanne Moore. Signed by Robinson below the colophon. Quarter bound in celadon morocco by Claudia Cohen with multi-color morocco onlay of a fly by Gray Parrot; this edition includes an additional sixteen state proofs of the etchings along with state proofs and working proofs of the wood engravings two watercolors and an original study of one of the etchings laid in portfolio; a fine copy in publishers' morocco backed tray case with two prospectuses laid in. Fine binding. Cheloniidae Press unknown books
