The Broken Span

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… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Direction, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Slim octavo. Unpaginated. Grey paper covered boards. Some chipping to the paper cover the spine and some toning the the edges of the boards. Toning to endpapers.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo, gray boards with black and magenta decoration, in dust jacket, book very good, lightest wear to spine ends and corners, edges of boards a bit tanned and darkened as is the spine. The dust jacket is good or better, light wear and loss to corners, general darkening,… Read more about this item

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… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. Paperback in dustwrapper. Book is in crisp and clean condition, jacket only fair (has split into 2 pieces along spine). . Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1941.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Wraps. Very good/very good. 8vo, wraps with dust jacket in gray and magenta, very good, lightest wear and soil, some toning and darkening to jacket.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Wraps. Very good/very good. Wraps in dust jacket, very good, light toning, darkening and soil to jacket.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket/Good. The pages of this well-kept copy are clean, free from ownership marks, crisp, and bright saving a little modest age-toning at the endpapers; the binding is tight, the hard cover gently rubbed at heel, head, and corners and showing a small spot at the… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. (1941). ........ Boards. The Poet of the Month. Some of these poems were first published in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry." . 8vo., not paginated, Boards yellowed with stains, frayed; occas. soiling, penciling of e/p's with notation of one page .

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1941. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Gray wrappers. Very good. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, [1941]. 1st. Paperback. Bound in the publisher's orginal light blue wrappers with the front cover stamped in mauve and black. The spine has moderate sun fading and some tears, otherwise a very good copy.

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,… Read more about this item

1941. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Broken Span. Orig. wrappers. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, [1941]. First edition, second state. Wallace A22. A very good copy.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. The first volume of the Poet of the Month series for 1941. Light tanning to page edges, otherwise very good in a good dustjacket that is darkened at the edges, has short closed tears, and is partially split at the spine. 8vo.

New Directions, 1941. Paperback. Good. . Tanning to edges of covers. Minor shelf wear. Pages/covers clean, binding sturdy.