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Paterson I-V
by Williams, William Carlos
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Complete in five volumes, all in dust jackets. Very Good overall. Flap prices intact except for the last volume. Book 1 Very Good in Good dust jacket: a few small chips missing to edges of jacket, archival mending tissue on verso of jacket, back panel toned, "shelf copy" stamped on back paste down (publisher's stamp?). Book 2 Very Good in Good: spine panel of jacket, bottom edge of front panel, and spine dampstained. Book 3 Very Good in Good: a bit of foxing to cloth of front, a lot of chipping top edge of front panel, piece missing from back panel top with creasing. Book 4 Near Fine in Very Good+: toning to edges of jacket and light shelf wear. Book 5 Very Good in Good+: well-bumped top corners, rubbing and light foxing to jacket, faint stain to front panel, toning to back panel, edge wear to jacket. All jackets are mylar-protected. A nice set.
William Carlos Williams' epic poem in five books, each issued in small runs-- 1,000 copies each for the first four; 3,000 for the last.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140904148
- Title
- Paterson I-V
- Author
- Williams, William Carlos
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- Paterson 1 - 5, five 1958, book, books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2010
Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- 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...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- 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....
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
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