Search Results: Patterson by William Carlos Williams

Chicago Illinois: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1882. Early days in Otoe County, Nebraska, are recalled through colorful tales, factual data and individual biographies in this 57-page spiral bound booklet excerpted from the rare 1882 book: History of the State of Nebraska, originally published by the Western Historical Co. of Chicago, and Nebraska, a Guide to the Cornhusker State, a 1939 project of the Federal Writers of the Works Progress Administration. The booklet is printed on 60# paper. A vinyl sheet has been added to protect the full-color front cover. Among the many subjects included are: Topography -- located on the Missouri River, agricultural prospects; First settlement -- Indian tribes, Old Fort Kearney; Early settlers, including the Boulware family and Col. Peter Sarpy; the terrible Winter of 1856, Drought of 1859, Great storm of 1868 and the Flood of 1881; War Record of Otoe County; Roster of county officers -- sheriffs, judges, county clerks, treasurers, commissioners, school… Read More

Chicago Illinois: Western Historical Publishing Co., 1882. Early days in Lancaster County, Nebraska, are recalled through colorful tales, factual data and individual biographies in this 86-page spiral bound booklet excerpted from the rare 1882 book: History of the State of Nebraska, originally published by the Western Historical Co. of Chicago, and Nebraska, a Guide to the Cornhusker State, a 1939 project of the Federal Writers of the Works Progress Administration. The booklet is printed on 60# paper. A vinyl sheet has been added to protect the full-color front cover. Some of the places mentioned in the booklet include: Lincoln (county seat), Bennet, Waverly, Firth, and Roca. Among the many subjects included are: Physical character of the county, such as the Salt Basins; Early Settlers and where they settled, such as Capt. W.T. Donavan; Indian Troubles; County Organization; County officials, Railroads, Schools, Societies, Lincoln, the capital of Nebraska, it's early history, city officials, city… Read More

Arete Communications, September 2008. Unknown. Used - Like New. BRAND NEW, with a small bump to the front corner. Quick Shipping and Delivery Confirmation!

Arete Communications, September 2008. Unknown. Used - Like New. Brand New, with a squeeze at the corner. Quick Shipping and Delivery Confirmation!

NY: McDowell, Obolensky, 1959. 1st priinting; dj in mylar (price clipped); 143 clean, unmarked pages; This unique poet was in his seventies when he wrote this memoir, a blending of his words and his mother's "to achieve an effect analogous to his blending of prose and poetry in Patterson.". 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 vo.

Brand: Arete Communications, 2008-08-31. 1. paperback. Used: Good.

Arroyo Hondo, NM, 1949. Wraps. Fair. Wraps, 8.75 x 5.75, fair copy with some chipping and tears to front cover that have been neatly repaired using pH-neutral document repair tissue tape, light edgewear to rear wrap. With Williams' "Song, from Patterson III" [sic], and work by Joseph Cherwinski, E. Pratt Dickson, Orian dePledge, Frederick Eckman, Terence Heywood, Gene Magner, Mason Jordan Mason, Clarence Alva Powell, Aaaron Sloan, and Charles Wiley.

Brand: Arete Communications, 2008-08-31. 1. paperback. Used:Good.

Fair. Signed and numbered, 77/500, by the author on the first leaf. Fairfax, California: Arete Communications, Publishers, 2008. Stated first casebound edition. Hardcover. 5 ½ x 9”. 270 pp. Fair in a fair dust jacket. Rubbing, chipping and closed tears to the edges of the dust jacket. Contains highlighting and dog-eared pages throughout. The binding is splitting in several areas, but it is still intact. Sold as is.

Folio Society, 1977. Hardcover. Original cloth. Near Fine. A facsimile of the original edition of 1818.pp. 36+ Folio Society cloth hardcover. #140822Michael Howe (1787 – 21 October 1818) was a British convict who became a notorious bushranger and gang leader in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Australia.On 31 July 1811 he was sentenced to seven years transportation for robbing a miller on the highway. He arrived in Van Diemen's Land in October 1812 in the Indefatigable, and was assigned to a Mr. John Ingle, a merchant and grazier.[1] Howe refused the assignment, declaring that, ""having served the King, he would be no man's slave"".[1] He escaped, and joined a large party of escaped convicts in the bush.[2]In May 1814 Howe gave himself up to the authorities in response to an offer of clemency made by Governor Macquarie. (For copy of proclamation see Historical Records of Australia, Series I, Vol. VIII, p. 264). Howe, however, took to the bush again and joined a band of bushrangers led by John… Read More

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Arete Communications, 2008. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 290 pages. 8.30x5.50x1.00 inches.

Arete Communications, 2008. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 290 pages. 8.30x5.50x1.00 inches.

2008. First edition. Hardbound in very good condition in near very good dust jacket; Jacket fairly edge worn; Small stain to page edges.. Includes Daniel Brinton's 1894 essay 'Nagualism in Native American Folklore & History'; 270 pages. Patterson presents an indepth study of Castaneda's teaching and draws analogies, which he sees as sources, in a number of areas, especially The Fourth Way of G.I. Gurdjieff.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, second state (purple lettered/illustrated front cover) with only 100 copies of the first state printed. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain tanned, stapled wrappers, (32pp.), unpaginated; light toning to cover and page margins, else stiff wraps in fine condition; dust jacket with mild toning to spine and folds, upper spine fold starting, and a touch of wear to corner edges, else fine

New Directions; Norfolk, Connecticut; 1941. This is the rarest of the bindings (A22, iii) described by Wallace (A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams; Wesleyan University Press; Middletown, Connecticut; 1968). Probably representing 100 of the total 2000 copies printed. Plain wraps, sewn binding, 20 leaves (first two and last two of differnet paper), 8 13/16 x 6 inches. Yellow paper dustcover, printed in black on the front panel. Book near fine (small, black, ink-stamped star on recto of second leaf, else fine). Dustcover very good (modest sunning; mild soiling). (3214024). F. Soft cover.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition. First printing. Gray paper boards printed in black and fuschia, with a similarly printed dust jacket. One of 300 of a total of 2000. This small volume "contains fifteen poems" for the poem Patterson (sic): volume one of Paterson was published in 1946. Wallace A22. This is a review copy (stamped as usual by ND as such with the date on the ffep). In addition it is poet Ben Belitt's copy. Belitt taught at Bennington College for half a century, and is probably best know as a translator and editor of Pablo Neruda. Boards worn, tips bumped, in a lightly sunned jacket with two chips missing (one on the back panel 1 1/2"X3/4"). Still quite a nice copy, uncommon in boards, quite scarce as a review copy. Very Good in Chipped DJ.

Chuseki-sha, 1988. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1

New York : New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, first state, approx. 100 of the total 2000 copies printed [Wallace A22, iii].

Signed by Williams on the front free end-paper: post stroke signature.

Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series.

Plain wrappers with sewn binding, (32pp.), unpaginated, in first issue, yellow dust jacket, printed in black on the front panel. Light age-toning to page margins, else plain stitched wrappers in fine condition; dust jacket with mild rubbing to spine ends and corners, soiling, spine fold separating, age-toning to spine, folds, and cover margins, else in fine condition.

New York: A New Directions Book,, 1946-48-49-51-58. Say it! No ideas but in things First editions, first printings, of Williams's epic poem, Book 2 a review copy from the library of Ruth and Mark Schorer, with their bookplate on the front pastedown and a typed letter signed by the publisher Hubert Creekmore loosely inserted. This is an excellent association, sent to a significant friend and colleague of the author with a request for his comments. Mark Schorer (1908-1977) was a writer and critic, who earned his MA at Harvard and went on to chair the University of California's English Department from 1960 to 1965. He was a witness during the 1957 obscenity trial for Allen Ginsberg's Howl, testifying in defence of the poem. He was one of Williams's "teaching pals" (quoted in Mariani, p. 546), and in his autobiography, Williams recalls attending a two-week English conference in 1946 in Salt Lake City, Utah, where "Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Caroline Gordon, Mark Schorer, all swam with us in a nearby pool… Read More