The Broken Span

New York : New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, first state, approx. 100 of the total 2000 copies printed [Wallace A22, iii]. Signed by Williams on the front free end-paper: post stroke signature. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain wrappers with… Read more about this item

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941 First printing of the first edition, second state (purple lettered/illustrated front cover) with only 100 copies of the first state printed. Eleven poems, including the 15-part "For the Poem Patterson," issued as the first volume of the Poet of the Month series. Plain tanned, stapled wrappers, (32pp.), unpaginated; light toning to cover and page margins, else… Read more about this item

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Direction, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 23.5 x 15.5 cm. Slim octavo. Unpaginated. Grey paper covered boards. Some chipping to the paper cover the spine and some toning the the edges of the boards. Toning to endpapers.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 8vo, gray boards with black and magenta decoration, in dust jacket, book very good, lightest wear to spine ends and corners, edges of boards a bit tanned and darkened as is the spine. The dust jacket is good or better, light wear and loss to corners, general darkening,… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition. First printing. Gray paper boards printed in black and fuschia, with a similarly printed dust jacket. One of 300 of a total of 2000. This small volume "contains fifteen poems" for the poem Patterson (sic): volume one of Paterson was published in 1946. Wallace A22. This is a review copy (stamped as… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. Paperback in dustwrapper. Book is in crisp and clean condition, jacket only fair (has split into 2 pieces along spine). . Very Good. Paperback. 1st Edition. 1941.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Wraps. Very good/very good. 8vo, wraps with dust jacket in gray and magenta, very good, lightest wear and soil, some toning and darkening to jacket.

Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Wraps. Very good/very good. Wraps in dust jacket, very good, light toning, darkening and soil to jacket.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Good dust jacket/Good. The pages of this well-kept copy are clean, free from ownership marks, crisp, and bright saving a little modest age-toning at the endpapers; the binding is tight, the hard cover gently rubbed at heel, head, and corners and showing a small spot at the… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions. G/No Dustjacket. (1941). ........ Boards. The Poet of the Month. Some of these poems were first published in "The New Yorker" and "Poetry." . 8vo., not paginated, Boards yellowed with stains, frayed; occas. soiling, penciling of e/p's with notation of one page .

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1941. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Gray wrappers. Very good. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo.

Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, [1941]. 1st. Paperback. Bound in the publisher's orginal light blue wrappers with the front cover stamped in mauve and black. The spine has moderate sun fading and some tears, otherwise a very good copy.

New Directions; Norfolk, Connecticut; 1941. This is the rarest of the bindings (A22, iii) described by Wallace (A Bibliography of William Carlos Williams; Wesleyan University Press; Middletown, Connecticut; 1968). Probably representing 100 of the total 2000 copies printed. Plain wraps, sewn binding, 20 leaves (first two and last two of differnet paper), 8 13/16 x 6 inches. Yellow paper dustcover,… Read more about this item

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First Edition. Stapled wrappers in dustjacket. The first volume of the Poet of the Month series for 1941. Light tanning to page edges, otherwise very good in a good dustjacket that is darkened at the edges, has short closed tears, and is partially split at the spine. 8vo.

1941. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. The Broken Span. Orig. wrappers. Norfolk, Conn.: New Directions, [1941]. First edition, second state. Wallace A22. A very good copy.

New Directions, 1941. Paperback. Good. . Tanning to edges of covers. Minor shelf wear. Pages/covers clean, binding sturdy.