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The Broken Span
by Williams, William Carlos
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Las Vegas , Nevada, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Idler Fine Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002199
- Title
- The Broken Span
- Author
- Williams, William Carlos
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY, LITERATURE.
Terms of Sale
Idler Fine Books
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About the Seller
Idler Fine Books
Biblio member since 2003
Las Vegas , Nevada
About Idler Fine Books
We specialize in First Editions in Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery, many signed first editions and limited editions.
Glossary
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
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