William Carlos Williams Preface (5 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Printed wraps. Sticker ghost on front cover (slightly yellowed by the legs of the kneeling woman); bottom fore-corner lightly bumped. Interior clean and unmarked. 54 pages. 8.5 x 5.5. 46 sonnets by G. G. Belli (1791-1863). ''Harold Norse translated the bawdy Roman sonnets of Belli in 1955, while living in Rome. Now a widely recognized classic since its original publication by Jargon in 1960, the book is much admired and cherished by a devoted and growing cult. The work is unique as it remains the only translation in English of the ''obscene'' 19th century Roman poet who was, in his own lifetime, what we would call today ''underground'', because of his daring candor and racy vulgarity. Norse, equally ''underground'', was hailed by William Carlos Williams not only for his own poetic achievement, but for the masterful originality of these translations.'' - back cover.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Plain 15 1/8" X 11 1/4" Card Folder, Dust Jacket With Attached Flaps. 11 Folders With Mounted Plate, Text Inside, Each By One Artist And One Author. Dust Jacket With Tear At Lower Edge, Soiling Foxing And Chipping Around Top Of Spine, Foxing On Upper And Lower Rear Panel, Foxing To Flaps Where Glue Has Bled Through. Slight Browning To Edges Of Folders.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. 134pp. Red cloth-covered boards with white printed title label pasted on spine; lacking dust-jacket. Slightly sunned along spine, a thumb-sized whiteish smudge on front board, otherwise very good. Binding is tight and square; text is unmarked. The scarce first offering, printed in an edition of 500 copies, of Zukofsky, Reznikoff and Oppen's short-lived Objectivist Press.…

Paperback. Condition: VG-. Oh, shirtless Norse! Unpaginated 8vo softcover (36 poems). Cover image by Ray Johnson; title-page collage by Jean-Jacques Lebel. This copy in VG- condition, tight and firm with minor edge- & cover-wear; page edges some very faint nicks. Rear cover features a lot of ink spilled on Norse and a shirtless photo-portrait of the poet-translator. Quite uncommon.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 12mo. Red cloth with printed spine label affixed. pp. viii, 134, [ii] (blank). Fore and tail edges uncut, the leaves generally unopened. Spotted to the head edge, the cloth faded or dust-dulled to extremities and, mildly, the spine, its label just a touch creased, and with the most minor, ineffective split to the rear joint at its head. A little spotting at the hinges, the endpapers with moderate toning/offsetting and, at the front, a neat bookseller's ticket (The Grolier Book Shop), the text block clean. In the slightly shelfworn dust jacket, rubbed at the folds, in one case with a short split, and chipped at the spine ends, the spine darkened (its text faint but legible) and with a small patch of soiling, also a pock at the upper fold, but presenting well nonetheless, and rare thus. …