A Novelette and Other Prose

(Toulon, France): To, (1932). First Edition. Wraps. Uncut and largely unopened; typical browning to text and somewhat to covers with small loss at head of spine. Very Good and quite scarce when signed. Original pale green wraps printed in black (5-1/2" x 9"); 127, [2] pages; list of planned publications on verso of rear wrap. Wallace A12, one… Read more about this item

(Toulon, France): To Publishers, (1932). First edition. One of approximately 500 copies printed. Wallace A12. To Publishers represented the group of Objectivist poets which included Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Reznikoff, and Basil Bunting. A list of a few books it intended to publish appears on the inside back wrapper. Faint traces of tanning toward the edges of the back… Read more about this item

[Toulon]: [Imprimerie F. Cabasson], 1932. FIRST EDITION. An uncut and partially unopened copy in the original printed wrappers. First edition, containing several poems, essays and stories many of which were to later appear in periodicals. "While tearing around tending the sick I've composed a novelette in praise of my wife whom I have gotten to know again. . .… Read more about this item

(Paris): TO Publishers, 1932. Softcover. Fair. First edition [Wallace A12; "about 500 copies printed"]. Octavo. 126pp. Printed wrappers. An extremely fragile publication, the delicate covers have detached on front and rear, with a number of moderate chips at extremities of covers; text is lightly browned (as usual), with slight chipping at tips of corner of last few pages… Read more about this item

France: TO Toulon, 1932. First edition. Softcover. fair. 8vo. 126pp. Printed wrappers. One-inch to head of backstrip and one-half inch to tail of backstrip missing. Chipping to edges. Wrappers fragile. Small stamp of previous owner to back of front wrapper. Browning throughout not affecting text. An example of what Williams later called "automatic writing," his modernist "Essay on… Read more about this item