The Knife of the Times

and Other Stories

by William Carlos Williams 

Limited edition.  Ithaca, NY:  The Dragon Press, 1932  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ and wrapper under Mylar.

• Blue-green linen weave covers are mostly clean, with cream label and title in ink.   
• Boards show a small mark at head, some edgewear.  Corners are a little scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has cream text label and is bright with softened ends.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some staining. 
• Interior is gently age-toned.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have untrimmed fore and foot edges.  
• DJ is nicely preserved behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Close examination of DJ reveals some edgewear, chipped corners, closed tears and small chips at head, darkening of paper.  See photos. 
• Inner glassine wrapper shows some wear and a closed tear along head edge.
• PS2025.1211

164 pages. 5 x 7.5 inches

First, Limited Edition of 500 copies, a title from The Dragon Series edited by Angel Flores.  Publisher's blue-green boards with title labels on top board and spine, as issued.  Inner glassine wrapper present and intact.  Gray paper dust jacket with blue-green ink designed by Olaf A. Brauner.  Condition is overall Very Good, with unmarked end papers and text block.  Dust jacket shows age tanning and some chipping to edges.  A nice copy of this first collection of short fiction by this major American poet. 

William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism.  The eleven stories in this volume make use of his professional experience as a doctor, much more than his poems do.  Williams wrote, "This is the first book of short stories.  The stories are all about people I knew in the town, portraits of people who were my friends.  I was impressed by the picture of the times, depression years, the plight of the poor.  I wrote it down as I saw it.  The times -- that was the knife that was killing them." 

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