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1967163478Los Angeles: Mason & Ruscha 1967. Signed by Ruscha First edition first printing signed by Ruscha and Williams and stamped "Apr 22 1967". The book had its genesis when Williams threw a Royal typewriter from the passenger window of a Buick Le Sabre while being driven by Ruscha at a speed of 90 mph on US Highway 91; they then recorded on camera the results of the damaged typewriter. Octavo. With 35 photographic illustrations on 80 lb. white Prentice Gloss Text paper. Spiral bound cream wrappers printed in black. Rear wrapper lightly marked with one small abrasion to fore edge else a bright near-fine copy. unknown
1954177568New York: New Directions 1954. The scarce signed issue inscribed to his secretary First edition signed limited issue number 26 of 100 copies signed by the author. This copy was retained by Williams and presented to his secretary the year before his death inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Rosalie Thurman best wishes Tennessee Williams 1982". The volume collects short stories written during Williams's "golden age" between 1948 and 1954 which together "establish his place in the tradition of the American short story" Vannatta p. 51. The signed limited issue was printed and bound for Williams's private distribution. It is identical to the trade issue simply titled Hard Candy published in August 1954 save for the cancel title page and the inclusion of the story "The Kingdom of Earth" printed on an additional gathering bound at the rear of the volume pp. 225-242. This copy is from the theatre collection of Clive Hirschhorn b. 1940 the film and theatre critic for the Sunday Express for over three decades with his 1988 ownership inscription on the front pastedown. Octavo. Original brown quarter cloth spine lettered in gilt brown patterned paper sides. With the original grey card slipcase. Spine sunned a couple of superficial splits to inner hinges; slipcase sunned and lightly worn at extremities: a very good copy. Crandell A13.1.b. Dennis Vannatta Tennessee Williams: A Study of the Short Fiction 1988. hardcover
194688109New York: New Directions Books 1946-1958. First Editions. First Printings. Five octavo volumes 24cm; beige cloth blocked in various colors and titled in gilt on front covers; dustjackets; 48; 58; 56; 64; 48pp. All volumes show a hint of foxing to upper board edges some offsetting to pastedowns on Vol.1 else cloth bindings are uniformly clean and contents quite fresh; very Near Fine. Dustjackets are all unclipped Vols.1-3 showing a hint of sunning to spines and upper panels Vol.1 showing a 2" split to lower front joint and clear tape reinforcement at upper edge on verso with a single foxed spot to front panel; one tiny nick to lower front panel on Vol.3 with two clear tape mends on verso; faint foxing to verso of Vol.5; Near Fine. All housed in a custom felt-lined half-morocco clamshell case designed by Chicago bookbinder Scott Kellar with the covers reproducing a photo of the Passaic Falls.<br /> <br /> A uniformly attractive set of these five volumes which together constitute Williams's magnum opus a long poem completed over the course of more than a dozen years. "Paterson is both a man and a city as Joyce's Earwicker is both a man and a hill. The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday intimate Bonnard-like interiors uproarious comedy. The Passaic river becomes to him what the polluted Bièvre was to Huysmans. 'A poem is a complete little universe it exists separately. Any poem that has worth expresses the whole life of the poet'" Connolly The Modern Movement p.95. WALLACE A24a A25a A30a A34a A44a. 88109. New Directions Books unknown
1912077051London: Herbert & Daniel 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7.5" tall x 5.25" wide x 0.75" thick. This is Williams' first book and is quite rare. It is a sequence of sonnets. We purchased this book in a lot of Williams books at auction. Two of the books had Colin Hardie's name in them and most of them at a 2 or 3 letter code inside the back cover. The letters in the back are DXL. Therefore we think this was likely Colin Hardie's copy though his name is not in it. Colin Hardie was an Inkling. There were approximately sixteen people at C. S. Lewis' funeral - Colin Hardie was one of them. <br><br>Quarter tan cloth on gray paper. A label in the upper right of the front cover has a double line border and the title inside the border. 90 pp. Uncut fore edge and bottom edge. <br><br>CONDITION: The book is VG with light browning on boards and spine. The first front end paper and the last end paper both show the stain of acidic paper. The back board is somewhat curved. Lacking dust wrapper.<br><br>Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings. Full refund if not satisfied. Herbert & Daniel hardcover
192227785New York: George H. Doran Company 1922. Very Good/Very Good . New York: George H. Doran Company n.d. but before 1927. Early American Printing issued before Doubleday and Doran's 1927 merger. Small slim quarto 21cm.; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in matching dust jacket pictorial endpapers; 331pp.; seven color lithographic plates three of them double-paged. Boards gently scuffed a few tiny closed tears to jacket extremities margins very slightly toned orange jacket spine titling lightly faded else a Very Good or better copy.<br /> <br /> A superlative and early American printing of one of the most enduring children's books in the English language which just celebrated its hundredth anniversary last year. Harper's Bazaar first commissioned the story in 1921 from Margery Williams Bianco at the time a stalled author of adult fiction who hadn't published a work in eight years. What Williams Bianco produced was unlike anything she had written before the story of a boy and his Velveteen Rabbit whose fate from beloved toy to real rabbit serves as an allegory for the difficult passage of childhood to adulthood minus being thrown in a rubbish sack. <br /> <br /> Fittingly Williams Bianco's daughter the child prodigy Pamela Bianco provided the illustrations for the Harper's Bazaar appearance though the first published appearance of the story in book form made use of illustrations by the more established and renowned painter and printmaker William Nicholson. <br /> <br /> Early printings in such fine condition exceedingly hard to come by this one as splendid as a velveteen rabbit on Christmas morning. George H. Doran Company unknown
1952140947228New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1952. Reprint. Near Fine/Good. Reprint. A wonderful presentation copy signed by E. B. White on the half-title page and inscribed to "Jewel and Danny Murphy. Salutations!" With letters laid in supporting provenance from White's lifelong friend Howard Cushman and both of the recipients' parents. <p>In 1967 Cushman acted as a public relations consultant for Daniel Murphy then a candidate for delegate to the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention. After Murphy lost his election by 400 votes he hosted a cocktail party to thank those who had helped in his campaign. Cushman was at the Murphy home when Jewel Murphy came downstairs in tears having just finished reading Charlotte's Web and Cushman subsequently asked his friend E. B. White to help him say "thanks" by inscribing a copy of the book for her and her brother. <p>Bound in publisher's pictorial paper-laminate covered boards. Near Fine with light wear to extremities. Tape residue to verso of front free endpaper with associated offsetting to half-title page from Cushman's note which was formerly taped in. In a Good price-clipped dust jacket which is tattered at the edges and toned. A lovely presentation copy of the author's beloved children's classic. Harper & Row unknown
1952140947404New York and Evanston: Harper & Row 1952. Reprint. Near Fine/Near Fine. Reprint. Signed by E. B. White on the half-title page and inscribed "Best wishes" with date February 1979. viii 184 pp. Bound in publisher's pictorial paper-laminate covered boards. Near Fine with light wear to extremities and tiny stains to upper edges and back cover. In a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket with very light soiling and edgewear. A beautiful copy of the children's classic. Harper & Row unknown
194781925New York:: New Directions 1947. First edition. publisher'spaper-covered boards in dust jacket both illustrated by lustig; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. . Very slightest of use at edges in a dust jacket with minimal fading to the backstrip. A far better copy than usually seen. 8vo. New Directions, hardcover
1935327019New York: The Alcestis Press 1935. First edition limited to XX copies "for presentation purposes" this is copy XIII printed on Duca di Modena special Italian handmade paper signed by William Carlos Williams. 68pp. 8vo. Slightly rubbed at tip of lower spine few tiny faint soil spots to covers else the covers are fresh and bright; the text has an extremely faint damp mark at bottom margin at inner corner of a few pages barely visible except at the closest of examination else a near fine bright copy. First edition limited to XX copies "for presentation purposes" this is copy XIII printed on Duca di Modena special Italian handmade paper signed by William Carlos Williams. 68pp. 8vo. This copy is inscribed by Williams on the front flyleaf: "Katherine I. John / from her friend / W. C. Williams". John was Williams' secretary and typist. Wallace A16 The Alcestis Press unknown
195513483161955. A typed carbon typescript of an early version of Cat On A Hot Tin Roof written between December of 1954 and 1955 in the lead-up to pre-Broadway tryout in Philadelphia. It incorporates the edits made by Williams in a collection of revisions dated "9 December 1954" Currently housed at the Rare Book and Manuscript Collection Butler Library Columbia University: Big Daddy's appearance in Act III Brick's admittance "I might be impotent Maggie" and the inclusion of Big Daddy's "elephant joke" which was later replaced by the famous "mendacity" speech. Very good and extremely rare - only 7 typescripts of this version are known to exist most in wraps from the Liebling-Wood agency.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Quarto 120 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in leatherette wrap bound with brads and final title "Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" in silver lettering. Label in upper left for Hart Stenographic Bureau. Chipping to bottom right edge/corner of front cover and head/tail of spine a closed tear near "Hart" label and a two-inch closed tear along hinge at bottom of the front corner. Some minor age-toning to edges and titlepage.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Also includes the playbill for the second week of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof's initial Broadway run at the Morosco Theatre. The play premiered March 24th 1955 and the first playbill was of the week of March 21. The bill included is from the "Week beginning Monday March 28 1955" stated on page 21 of the playbill. Octavo 36 pages. In Very Good condition. There is some minor wear to the spine mild age-toning an 1.4-inch closed tear near the tail of the spine.<br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> CX Consignment. Shelved in Case 0. 1348316. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. unknown
1946005962New York: New Directions 1946-58. First Edition. Hardcover. Short tear to the front panel of the dustwrapper of the second volume occasional internal tape reinforcement. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrappers with only light wear and soiling. Five volumes all First Editions in dustwrappers. The first four books limited to 1000 copies the fifth to 3000. Williams's masterpiece SIGNED by the poet in an early hand on the front free endpaper of the first volume and quite scarce thus. CONNOLLY 100 the one hundredth key book in Connolly's listing: "The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday intimate Bonnard-like interiors uproarious comedy . his poem is written with a deep aversion to all forms of pretentiousness rhetoric or prepared effects; it runs eddying along broken by old letters bits of local history and limpid love lyrics." <br/><br/> New Directions hardcover
19523886621952. Softcover. Fine. Photographic archive of Al and Katherine Williams proprietors of the Papagayo Room restaurant in San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel and host of the mid-1950s cooking program Copper Kitchen totaling more than 1000 photographs and 1000 negatives with some original menu art. The photographs are nicely presented in a series of folio and large quarto albums and with the majority of the original negatives present and neatly organized and labeled; an additional number of unprinted negatives related to travel in Mexico are also included. Overall fine with only a bit of wear and toning to the menu art. unknown
196823075Bloomington IN: Fine Arts Department University of Indiana 1968. First edition. One of only 36 copies the entire edition printed on Italia paper signed by Williams and McGarrell with each lithograph individually signed by the artist. Crane D44. Fine copy. Folio 20 x 14 inches 24 leaves plus two guard sheets in fabricoid portfolio with printed label. Fine copy. Fine Arts Department, University of Indiana unknown
1964Alibris.0023445North-Holland Publishing Co 1964. 3rd printing. Trade paperback. Very good. Signed by author. 3rd printing 1964 paperback includes a signed letter from the author to the previous owner economist Willard T. Williams in it he debunks Fredrich Lutz's origin of the Expectations theory and credits Irving Fisher a. 613p. ill. 24 cm. North-Holland Publishing Co paperback
1947010173NY: New Directions 1947. Previous owner's neat ownership stamp to ffep. The first edition of this book bound in pink boards printed in black and white. Book is stunning with no discernible flaws. The dustwrapper shows some yellowing to top edge of front panel and crinkling and minor closed tears to top of back panel. A beautiful copy of this book that is seldom encountered in this condition. The author's most desirable first edition. The $2.75 price on the bottom flap of the front d.w. is intact. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/VG. New Directions Hardcover
1947Pv1421SIGNED by Tenessee Williams no personalization on the front flyleaf a highly collectible first edition copy one of only 5080 copies of his Pulitzer Prize winning drama of faded promiscuous Blanche DuBois vs her brutally sexy brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski still celebrated 75 years after its Broadway opening as one of the finest achievements in the American theatre. A highspot of theatre and cinema Streetcar launched the careers of Marlon Brando Jessica Tandy Kim Hunter and Karl Malden and solidified the position of Tennessee Williams as one of the most important young playwrights of his generation as well as that of Elia Kazan as the greatest American stage director of the '40s and '50s. Of his Broadway performance in Streetcar Brando remarked: "What I remember most about a Streetcar Named Desire was the emotional grind of acting in it six nights and two afternoons a week. Try to imagine what it was like walking on stage at 8:30 every night having to yell scream cry break dishes kick the furniture punch the walls and experience the same intense wrenching emotions night after night trying each time to evoke in audiences the same emotions I felt. It was exhausting.it was emotionally draining wearisome mentally oppressive and after a few weeks I wanted out of it." Original publisher's pictorial pink paper over boards a few spots of rubbing at ends spine sunned; original unclipped dust jacket spined sunned discrete expert restoration along edges. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY WILLIAMS on front free endpaper. No other writings markings or pastedowns in the book except for author's signature! The author's first Pulitzer Prize–winning play which Williams himself considered his best play and is one of the most important American plays of the last century Devlin Conversations with Tennessee Williams p. 50. Crandell A5.1.a. Book #Pv1421. $4888. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand history and science. New Directions hardcover
1965148483Indialantic Florida: C.W. Scarboro 1965. First edition of this visual chronicle documenting the early development of the U.S. space program at Cape Canaveral. Quarto original pictorial wrappers illustrated throughout. Boldly signed by six Gemini astronauts on the dedication page: Michael Collins James Lovell Edward H. White II Frank Borman Jim McDivitt and Clifton Williams. Foreword by Kurt H. Debus. In very good condition. Rare and desirable signed especially by Edward White who passed away in 1967. The Pictorial History of Cape Kennedy: 1950–1965 offers a visual and documentary account of the formative years of America’s space program focusing on the evolution of Cape Canaveral—later renamed Cape Kennedy—into a central hub of aerospace innovation. Through a curated selection of photographs and concise historical commentary the book captures the technological advancements key personnel and landmark missions that defined the early Cold War-era space race. C.W. Scarboro unknown
194861846Aurora New York & Cummington Mass.: Cummington Press / Wells College Press 1948. Edition limited to 310 copies on hand-made paper this copy unnumbered but one of LX signed by Williams; 8vo pp. 64; fine copy in original gray cloth printed paper label on spine publisher's slipcase. From the library of Kim Merker. The regular edition was unsigned without a slipcase and on rag paper. Printed by Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams under the direction of Victor Hammer. A wonderful collaboration among three great 20th-century printers. To say nothing of the poet. Wallace A26. Richmond 34: "Issued jointly with the Wells College Press where Harry Duncan and Wightman Williams printed this book "through the good offices" of Victor Hammer. Cummington Press / Wells College Press unknown
1968578783No place: John E. Williams 1968. Softcover. Fine. First edition. 16mo. 3½†x 6â€. Stapled wrappers. 20 pp. Author photo on title page. Fine. Presentation Copy with printed label stating “This Book Has Been Presented To B. Jones†and Signed by the author “Rev. John E. Williams.†Below is a small ownership sticker with a Chicago address. <br /> <br /> According to the biography in the opening pages this is Williams’ fifth book. Williams born in Sandflat Texas in 1926 writes that without God “we will have no law and order no morality no conscience no nothing. This is happening so America is doomed.†What follows is a reflective essay on violence God and peace in the wake of King’s death and funeral the text points to this being written in the days after the funeral as he gives intimate details of people and events in Atlanta related to the funeral.<br /> <br /> In his introduction Williams writes “Dr. King’s influence as a good leader extended far beyond I am sure man’s competence…But our lives are never the same after we as Negroes come to know the true meaning of Dr. King’s work. He sees in us what we can become and did lead us toward that goal. How fortunate we are to know a man like Martin Luther King Jr.â€<br /> <br /> Williams condemns the violence against Black people in America writing “But one of the most bitter complaints of the Negroes in Memphis not only in Memphis but in cities throughout the nation is that Negroes feel that they get less protection and more pushing around from the police than do white citizens. Memphis Negroes have been feeling that there are more than a few members of the police force who eagerly seize upon any justification to pound a black head or pour bullets into a black body.†Williams says that King was “a main hope for a tormented nation†before delivering his message of love peace and hope writing “Our country is too small for hate love is a must or else this world will go up in flame.†<br /> <br /> A rare unrecorded booklet on King written and published soon after his assassination. Not found in commerce auction records or OCLC. John E. Williams unknown
1959355963New York: New Directions 1959. Unbound. Fine. A collection of galleys of the first edition of the Tennessee Williams' Sweet Bird of Youth from the collection of Edwin Erbe former publicity director for New Directions. The galleys are composed of both narrow tall folio pages with long unbroken text and oblong folio sheets with each containing four pages. All with printed rectos only and one composed on onion skin sheets. A bit of wear at the edges of some sheets a few of small isolated dampstains and a couple sheets trimmed by the printer near fine. A group of three in-house galleys of the first edition of this Williams play first published by New Directions. The galleys have a few of corrections and scattered printer's note such as the late addition of a stage manager credit. These three complete galleys are accompanied by two additional partial galleys. The original Broadway production of Williams's play about a gigolo and drifter who returns to his hometown as the traveling companion of a faded film star was directed by Elia Kazan and starred Paul Newman and Geraldine Page. All surviving galleys from this era are scarce with only a handful of copies being produced. We have not encountered other such copies and considering the source suspect this represent all that survive. New Directions unknown
194822834MA: Wells College Press & Cummington Press 1948. First edition. One of 60 Roman-numeraled copies on hand-made paper signed by Williams out of a total edition of 310 copies the regular copies were printed on an all-rag paper & not signed. Wallace A26. Fine copy in slipcase. Although the regular issue of The Clouds is fairly common the signed issue is rare; we have only handled two copies. 8vo original cloth with printed spine label publisher's slipcase. Fine copy in slipcase. Although the regular issue of The Clouds is fairly common the signed issue is rare; we have only handled two copies. Wells College Press & Cummington Press unknown
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
196654473Los Angeles California: n.p. Mason Williams 1966. Near fine. First edition association copy of this uncommon artist's book inscribed to Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers. Though perhaps best known as a musician and for his instrumental hit "Classical Gas" Williams grew up in Oklahoma where in the 4th grade he befriended Ed Ruscha. After graduating high school the two left Tulsa together for L.A. and though Williams soon returned to study music by 1964 he was back in California and living with his friend. Williams and Ruscha supported each other in their various artistic pursuits and collaborated on several occasions ROYAL ROAD TEST 1967; CRACKERS 1969. This book was their first together - a loosely illustrated free-verse fable of winning and quickly losing the attentions of a Vegas showgirl. <br /> <br /> Humorously signed to "Prissy" Dick Smothers one half of the Smothers Brothers. At the time of this inscription Williams had already toured with the brothers and appeared on both of their albums. Indeed the three were working on the early development of what would go on to become the controversial and legendary Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour which debuted in 1967. Williams was one of the driving creative forces behind the show - composing the show's theme song functionally serving as head writer and penning many of the show's best-known routines. The Comedy Hour - which grew increasingly popular with young anti-war countercultural audiences - would infamously be canceled by CBS CEO William Paley in 1970. Paley ascribed the cancellation to breach of contract while most others cited political censorship - including Williams who penned a poem "The Censor" about such network meddling. <br /> <br /> A stupendous association between two defining figures of the 1960s. 8.75'' x 6''. Original full Vegas gold cloth. No jacket as issued. Photographic endpapers. One of 500 unnumbered copies. Book design by Ed Ruscha. Photography by Patrick Blackwell. 64 pages. Inscribed by Mason on blank prelim before title: "To Prissy Dick / with ink / Mason / Jan '67." Minor rubbing shelfsoil. Overall bright sound and sharp. n.p. [Mason Williams] hardcover
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
1913205691London: Elkin Mathews 1913. First edition. Light abrasions to front panel; spine a bit rubbed no wear without the glassine wrapper. 16mo 32pp; original boards stamped in gilt. The poet's second book one of "probably 1000 copies printed" Wallace A2. This copy signed in full by Williams in blue ink on the first leaf - an early signature with fountain pen. A scarce and delicate book. Elkin Mathews unknown
