Williams Wightman (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. APPEARS UNREAD. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket shows minimal shelving wear, otherwise an UNBLEMISHED copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Poor condition. No limitation provided. Unpaged - total of 18 pages present including front cover (missing rear cover); printing on 8 pages plus front cover. Paperback: H 22.75cm x L 14.75cm. Binding string present in interior but exterior portion missing; detached front cover stained and toned; staining and some soiling to other leaves; tears and wear at leaf edges with curling/creasing at corners. Sold as is. Title leaf verso states "Reprinted from 'Selected Poems' by Allen Tate, copyright, 1937, by Charles Scribner's Sons." The Cummington Press imprint on eighth text page. …

Card Cover - Stapled. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Minimal wear to covers. Internally very clean. Binding good. 36pp Size: 175mm x 250mm. Book.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated beaver brown cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered black back and front. Thick 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 256 pp with monochrome frontispiece. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Dusty page edges. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with old tape repairs to the top front gutter and top rear edge, not price clipped, 2/-. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. First edition, limited to 330 enumerated copies (#223/330). Hardbound, no dust jacket. Boards show some minor wear including shelf wear and age toning, otherwise very good. Wightman Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The novelette Blackberry Winter was originally published separately in 1946 and subsequently collected in Robert Penn Warren s first and only volume of short stories, The Circus in the Attic, initially published in 1947. Blackberry Winter is widely believed to be Penn s finest work of short fiction. It has been included in many anthologies and has garnered the interest of critics and readers. Since its first publication, critics have noted Warren s deft evocation of the textures and rhythms of rural Tennessee and his ear for dialogue. One of the reasons for the story s popularity is the universal appeal of the narrator, whose boyhood innocence is as convincing as his adult ambivalence and restlessness. Original 8vo. Private Press hand letter press on hand made Arches paper, deckle edge in the original cloth and decorative border binding, this is copy 141 of only 280 copies thus, there was an extra set of signed copies between 1 and 50, this is the standard copy fine in the rare never seen dust jacket under mylar brodart. unique thus. Penn Warren was the author of the magnificent All the King's Men, as well as one of the Nashville fugitive authors along with John Crow Ransom and Andrew Lytle and Allen Tate. Wightman Williams (illustrator). …

First edition. 16 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers with pasted-on cover label. One of 100 copies printed on cotton paper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Signed by Williams on the colophon. Delicate paper over boards with light toning to the extremities else clean and binding sound;edgeworn glassine wrapper is present. Bound by John Marchi of the Cummington Press. Very Good binding. Limited Edition, numbered 48 of 85 copies.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this uncommon poetry work from Allen Tate, featuring an illustration by Wightman Williams. First edition. Uncommon. In the publisher's original soft covers. With a wood engraving by Wightman Williams. Collated, complete. Two unusual conceits from the American poet, essayist and social commentator, Allen Tate, who served as the United States poet laureate between 1943 and 1944. This work was printed at Harry Duncan's Cummington Press. In the publisher's original soft covers. Externally, very smart with minimal shelf wear and a few marks, lightly creased around the title piece. Internally, generally firmly bound, a little delicate, bound together by one central thread. Pages are reasonably bright and clean, a little age toned, especially to the first and last few pages. Very Good. Wightman Williams (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. #142 of 330 copies. Internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Boards are clean with light rubbing at ends of spine. Wightman Williams (illustrator).

A little light scattered foxing to prelims, otherwise fine. 12mo. Black paper covered boards with decorative green and red triangle pattern paper fore-edge #66 of a first edition limited to 330 copies. A Story illustrated by Wightman Williams. (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. First Edition. Number 36 of 300 copies. Quarter leather boards covered by green natsume paper. Some foxing on the endpapers. the leather is worn and rubbed on the spine. the whimsical pen and ink drawings by Wightman Williams almost seem like doodles done by the poet as he was writing the piece. A beautiful edition of a single poem by Wallace Stevens. Wightman Williams (illustrator).…

Number 65 of 300 copies printed from Centaur types on Italian Pace paper, from a total edition of 340. Though not called for, this copy has been signed by Wightman Williams and the type designer Harry Duncan on the colophon. A very good copy, scarce thus. First edition, number 65 of 300 copies on Pace paper from Italy, from a total edition of 340, this copy signed by the illustrator and type designer; 8vo; illustrations of pen and ink drawings by Wightman Williams, minor toning to gutters of endpapers, scattered minor spotting to text block, else unmarked internally; publisher's quarter black morocco over green Natsume paper-covered boards, gilt lettering to upper cover, mild rubbing to extremities, slight toning to boards, with original glassine dust-jacket; a very good copy. Edelstein A10.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Limited Edition. Large octavo, unpaginated. A notoriously fragile book, and one of only "a few" (per Edelstein, see below) copies bound in rose-colored Japanese Natsume straw-paper over boards. The calf spine is worn at the extremities, but less so than is often seen, and the binding is sound. Gentle wear to corners, but a sharp, internally clean example; very good. Lacking, as usual, the plain glassine dust jacket. This is number 260 of 300 limited copies (another 40 were signed by Stevens). Edelstein (A10) references an unpublished letter from Harry Duncan, publisher of the Cummington Press, to Stevens, which reads, in part: "Five [copies] will be mailed to you on Monday. One of these is covered with rose paper, not with the green [.] Only a few copies have it all the available green paper not quite being enough for the entire edition." Furthermore, of the six locations noted by Edelstein, only Holly Stevens's copy is in the rose binding. A desirable copy.…

12mo, original decorated paste-paper boards. Arthur Mizener's copy, with his tiny book-label on the front endsheet, spine very slightly faded, with a touch of wear at the base, otherwise an unusually nice copy of this fragile book, which seldom survives in fine condition. Arthur Mizener's copy, with his tiny book-label on the front endsheet, spine very slightly faded, with a touch of wear at the base, otherwise an unusually nice copy of this fragile book, which seldom survives in fine condition. First edition. One of 380 copies printed in Centaur and Arrighi type on Dacian paper. Wallace A23. A diminutive but significant volume, which includes "Paterson: The Falls", "The Dance (In Breughel's great picture)", "The Semblables" and "To Ford Madox Ford in Heaven", in addition to Williams' important introduction, a brief "Ars Poetica". WILLIAMS, Wightman (illustrator).…

Edition limited to 85 copies (this, no. 56) signed by the author; 12mo, pp. [22]; frontispiece by Wightman Williams, original green paper-covered boards with a design on the upper cover by Williams; extremities a bit toned, otherwise a near fine copy but lacking the original glassine jacket. Bookplate of Arthur Langdon Blair. From the library of Kim Merker. Richmond 22. …

First Edition. First edition limited to 75 copies printed by the Williams and Harry Duncan; 8vo, pp. [8]; original gray wrappers printed in red; some wear along the edges and discoloration along the spine; a good copy of a scarce title. From the library of Kim Merker. "Seventy-five copies made by the author and Harry Duncan at The Cummington Press, Cummington School of the Arts, during April 1950." Richmond 44: "Thirty-three copies not accounted for in the colophon were on Rives with an intaglio drypoint by Williams.".…

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition, limited issue. Number 144 of 300 copies on Pace paper, in a total edition of 340. Unpaginated (21 pp.). Bound in publisher's green Natsume straw-paper-covered boards over quarter black leather titled in gilt. Near Fine with moderate rubbing to leather, light toning to paper, pinhole to front joint, and small bumps to lower corners. Offsetting to pastedowns from printer's glue, bookplate to front pastedown, sporadic faint foxing to contents. A handsome copy of an edition in which Wallace Stevens took an eager interest. Edelstein A10.…

First, Limited Edition. Deluxe issue, one of only 40 copies signed by both Stevens and illustrator Wightman Williams, with Williams' designs hand-colored throughout, from a total edition of 340 copies. Octavo (9-3/4"); black dyed calf over hand-painted paper-covered boards; [24pp]; illus. Ownership signature of José Rodriguez Feo to front endpaper, dated 1946 (see note below). A subtly restored copy; rear cover has been re-lined with painted paper to match the original design, with additional archival repairs to paper at lower front board. Moderate toning and soil to covers; scattered internal foxing; Very Good. The copy of Cuban critic, poet and translator José Rodriguez Feo, with whom Stevens maintained a well-documented friendship that was carried on almost entirely through correspondence (the two having met only twice, briefly, in person). These letters were preserved and later published under the title Secretaries of the Moon: the Letters of Wallace Stevens & José Rodríguez Feo (Beverly Coyle & Alan Filreis, eds; Durham: 1986). Collected in that volume is a letter dated May 10, 1946, in which Feo writes to Stevens acknowledgin receipt of this copy: "All the admiration and longing for a more personal friendship could be expressed by my telling you how delighted and grateful I am to you. Reading, caressing (it almost comes to that) your marvelous "Esthétique" has been a benediction. What a perfectly balanced little volume; what a delicate reunion of printing, drawing, and poetry." (Secretaries of the Moon, p.83). An excellent association copy of a true Stevens rarity; in this limitation, the book has been recorded at auction only twice in the past half-century. EDELSTEIN A10.…

First Edition. RILKE, RAINER MARIA. Five Prose Pieces. Cummington, Massachusetts: Cummington Press, 1947. Tall octavo (8-3/4 by 9-1/2 inches), original half brown calf and marbled boards, uncut. $1400.Limited first edition of five select prose works in English from Rilke's early years, featuring the inclusion of Erlebnis (Experience) together in print for the first time with Die Turnstunde (Gym Period), Begegnung (Encounter), Puppen (Dolls) and UrGerausch (Primal Sound), number 178 of only 203 copies on Van Gelder Oxhead paper (271 total), with original woodcut-engraved illustrations by artist Wightman Williams."Rilke was one of the most gifted and conscientious artists who ever lived" (Atlantic). This first edition of Five Prose Pieces brings together, for the first time in English, five early essays and stories. Its opening work, Die Turnstunde, (Gym Period) was first issued in German in 1902. Drawing on his experiences as a student at military schools, Rilke came to view the story "as one of his best prose pieces from his early years. The story's narrative brilliance lies mainly in its terseness, its ability to suggest rather than describe in detail" (Metzger, Companion, 71). This is followed by Begegnung (An Encounter), in which Rilke portrays a chance meeting between a man and a dog on a road "where one meets nobody." This highly evocative work, first issued in German in 1907, captures the dilemma of a man "desperately seeking a way out of the prison house of language" even as the dog's silent yet "happy expectation" seems to express a desire to share that prison (Kari Driscoll). The third work, Puppen (Dolls), was first issued in German in 1914 after Rilke saw the dolls created by German artist Lotte Pritzell. It provocatively offers a "key to understanding his own attitudes towards the theme of division within the self" (Anthony Stephens). The book's fourth work, Erlebnis (An Experience), was written in 1913 but not first issued in German until after Rilke's death in 1926. Here, in its first appearance with these other select works, Rilke's "purely interior" narrative signals an "ecstatically unified worldÉ an idea that is to recur in several of Rilke's works" (Metzger, 84). The final work, Rilke's autobiographical UrGerausch (Primal Sound), was first published in German in 1919. In it Rilke recalls the "homemade phonographs" of a former classroom: its "'markings traced on the cylinder'Ñthe proto-writing of the past" (Jacobus, Time-Lines). First edition, first printing: featuring the inclusion of Erlebnis (An Experience) not present in the 1943 volume titled Primal Sound & Other Prose Pieces, which consisted of the other four works and illustrations by Paul Wieghardt (instead of Wightman Williams). Translation by Carl Niemeyer. Schroeder, Rainer Maria Rilke in America: A Bibliography, 31. Trace of bookplate removal.A very elusive copy in fine condition.…