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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: The Desert Music and Other Poems by William Carlos Williams. Colophon
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William Carlos Williams

The Desert Music and Other Poems, 1954
NY: Random House
First edition. One of 100 copies, this out of series. Signed by Williams and by the printer, Joseph Blumenthal.
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Octavo. First edition, printed at the Spiral Press. One of 100 copies, this out of series and likely reserved for those involved in the book's production. Signed by Williams, with...
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Octavo. First edition, printed at the Spiral Press. One of 100 copies, this out of series and likely reserved for those involved in the book's production. Signed by Williams, with the addition of a gift inscription from Spiral Press proprietor Joseph Blumenthal for Tony Wimpfheimer, Vice President and Managing Editor of the Adult Trade Department at Random House. Elegantly designed and crisply bound in cloth-backed gray-green boards. Housed in slipcase. Fine.
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