William Carlos Williams-PATERSON: BOOKS 1-5 (1946-58)-1ST/1ST EDITIONS-NEAR FINE
윌리엄 카를로스 윌리엄스-패터슨: 1-5권 (1946-58)-1st/1ST 에디션 - NEAR FINE
| 상품번호 | 278035900066 |
| 거래유형 | 즉시구매 |
| 출고국 | 미국 (US) |
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Paterson - Books I-V
Author: [POETRY] WILLIAMS, William Carlos
Title: Paterson - Books I-V
Publication: New York: New Directions Books, 1946-1958
Edition: First Editions
Description: First Printings. Five octavo volumes (24cm); beige cloth, blocked in various colors and titled in gilt on front covers; dustjackets; [48]; [58]; [56]; [64]; [48]pp. All volumes show a hint of foxing to upper board edges, some offsetting to pastedowns on Vol.1, else cloth bindings are uniformly clean, and contents quite fresh; very Near Fine. Dustjackets are all unclipped, Vols.1-3 showing a hint of sunning to spines and upper panels, Vol.1 showing a 2" split to lower front joint and clear tape reinforcement at upper edge on verso, with a single foxed spot to front panel; one tiny nick to lower front panel on Vol.3, with two clear tape mends on verso; faint foxing to verso of Vol.5; Near Fine. All housed in a custom felt-lined half-morocco clamshell case designed by Chicago bookbinder Scott Kellar, with the covers reproducing a photo of the Passaic Falls.
A uniformly attractive set of these five volumes, which together constitute Williams's magnum opus, a long poem completed over the course of more than a dozen years. "Paterson is both a man and a city as Joyce's Earwicker is both a man and a hill. The long poem has many moods and includes quotations from letters by Pound and Ginsberg, large Seurat-like canvases of the Park on Sunday, intimate Bonnard-like interiors, uproarious comedy. The Passaic river becomes to him what the polluted Bièvre was to Huysmans. 'A poem is a complete little universe, it exists separately. Any poem that has worth expresses the whole life of the poet'" (Connolly, The Modern Movement p.95). WALLACE A24a, A25a, A30a, A34a, A44a. 88109.
Seller ID: 88109
Subject: Modern Poetry
