• William Carlos Williams. The Collected Later Poems of Williams Carlos Williams.
  • William Carlos Williams. The Collected Later Poems of Williams Carlos Williams.
  • William Carlos Williams. The Collected Later Poems of Williams Carlos Williams.

William Carlos Williams. The Collected Later Poems of Williams Carlos Williams.

$875.00

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1950.

8vo.; top edge of text block stained blue; lacking separately printed pamphlet "The Rose" laid in at rear; red cloth stamped in gilt. In publisher’s slipcase with pastedown label lettered in black. 

First edition of 100 copies specially bound in red cloth, this is copy #91. Signed and numbered by Williams at the time of publication on the colophon.

This collection of Williams’s work from the 1940s was published the same year that Williams won the newly reestablished National Book Award for Poetry, citing Paterson III [Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1949] and his Selected Poems [Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1949].