Chicago: The Modern Poetry Association, 1949. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 71 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Covers are red paper with white lettering and decorations, moderately age toned with staple binding. Rubbing wear along edges of covers, along spine, at ends of spine, and at corners. Front cover shows several faint stains. Text block shows some scuffing and foxing on the edges, and is lightly age toned throughout. Foxing sparsely present throughout. Dated "11/21/49" and inscribed in black ink on half title page: "Bill Bird - an "old hand" at all this. / Best / Bill". Inscription appears to be in the hand of William Carlos Williams, signing here as "Bill". Instances of Williams singing as "Bill" are extremely scarce, and was typically reserved for the signing of letters, very rarely used in book inscriptions. Williams had published one of his novels - The Great American Novel - through Bird's Three Mountains Press in 1923. This inscription's date nearly 30 years later, combined with Williams signing under the nickname "Bill", evidences a long and familiar relationship between the two men. Housed in a card-backed archival sleeve. SH Consignment. Shelved in Room A. More

New York, NY: Payson & Clarke Ltd, 1929. First Edition. Octavo, 474 pages. In Good condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Boards have rubbing wear along the edges, and bending wear along the spine head/tail and fore corners. Textblock has a tear on pages 355/356, a light stain on page 186, splitting along the gutter between the half-title page and frontispiece and along the hinge of the rear pastedown page and end-page, and age toning and minor wear along the edges. Contains a loose signed bookplate by Robert Penn Warren. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. More

London, UK: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959. First Unabridged U.K. Edition. Octavo, 391 pages. In Very good minus condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Black spine with age toned white lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price uncut "18s net", has age toning, a tear along the rear tail edge, rubbing wear along the head corners, and light stains. Boards have mild age toning and bending wear along the spine head/tail, and mild bending wear along the fore corners. Textblock has mild water damage along the tail edges of pages 30-341, mild age toning, mild foxing along the head edges, and stains along the fore and tail edges. Contains a publisher's card and loose book plate signed by Robert Penn Warren in the rear mylar. Shelved in Room C. More

New York, New York: Random House, 1983. Limited Edition #75/250. Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition slip case. Spine is plum with bronze lettering. Slip case has mild general scuffing and moderate sun-fading. Fully bound in publisher's plum cloth, boards have mild shelving wear along spine head. Signed flat by Robert Penn Warren on publisher's limitation page. Shelved Room C. More

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Octavo, 173 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is brown with tan and black lettering. Jacket is wrapped in a protective mylar sleeve. Mild wear to jacket with very small closed tears in bottom jacket edges. Mild shelf wear to boards. Rubbing wear along bottom board edges. Spine lightly cocked. Small scrape on bottom edge of text block. Small stain on top edge of text block near spine. Bookplate from former owner on front pastedown. Signed flat in red ink by Robert Penn Warren both on the title page and on page 173. Shelved in Netdesk Column V (ND-V). More

New York, New York: Random House, 1968. Limited Edition #153/250. Octavo, 64 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket and Very Good condition slipcase. Spine is black with white and light yellow lettering. Slipcase is black with light general sun-fading, scuffing, smudging, and mild shelving wear along extremities including a small chip and ~4in. along closed edge. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, has light shelving wear along spine head, to head fore corners, and a small closed tear along front head edge. Textblock fully bound in publisher's blue cloth with blind stamping to the front cover, has mild shelving wear and sun-fading along spine head and tail. Textblock has slight waviness, head edge dyed olive green and has mild fading. Signed flat by Robert Penn Warren on publisher's limitation page. Shelved Room C. More

New York, New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 401 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and orange lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "$10.00" on front flap, has mild shelving wear along tail edges. Boards have mild shelving wear along extremities; spine mildly cocked. Textblock head edge has mild dust-burning; has Robert Penn Warren's corrections throughout text, pages indicated by laid-in cards. Signed flat by Robert Penn Warren on front free-endpaper. Shelved Room C. More

New York: Random House, 1977. First Edition, Second Printing. Octavo, 401 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine is black with yellow and white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$10.00." Bumping to head and tail of dust jacket spine. Chipping to top of dust jacket spine. Mild bumping to corners of dust jacket. Bumping and chipping to top edge of dust jacket front cover. Small closed tear to top edge of dust jacket front cover. Age-toning to dust jacket. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Mild cocking to spine. Mild soiling to spine. Bumping to corners. Mild soiling to back board. Mild foxing to top edge of text block. Signed flat by Warren on front free end paper. Shelved in Hardcover Fiction. More

New York, New York: Random House, 1964. Limited Edition #204/250. Octavo, 300 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good condition dust jacket and Very Good condition slip case. Spine is tan with black lettering. Slip case is red and has light general soiling and scuffing, and mild shelving wear along open edges. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, has mild shelving wear along front tail edge and age-toning along spine. Boards fully bound in publisher's beige cloth. Textblock head edge dyed black. Signed flat by Robert Penn Warren on publisher's limitation page. Shelved Room C. More

New York: Random House, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, ix, 454 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket spine black with red and white lettering, protected in mylar covering, price uncut: "$5.95". Foxing to dust jacket edges and rubbing to dust jacket rear. Foxing to textblock edges. Mild general shelf wear. Top of textblock dyed red. Includes two typed letters from Warren and both signed by him. One is dated 1969, addressed to the Century Association's Admission Committee and includes a written inscription. The other is dated 1981 and addressed to an acquaintance. Shelved in Case 2. More

New York: Random House, 1953. First printing. Octavo, xii, 230 pages. In Good condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine is white and orange with black print. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear, toning to spine, peripheral toning, slight smudging. Price unclipped: “$3.50”. Boards in blue cloth. Slight wear to spine caps. Text block has tanning to endpapers. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column R. More

New York: Random House, 1985. First Random House edition; Limited edition, 179/350. Octavo, xii, 322 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good slipcase. Slipcase in brown paper. Spine is purple with gold print. Boards in purple cloth; slight warping. Signed in ink by the author on the limited edition page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. More

Limited Editions Club, 1989. Limited Edition #349/600. Quartos, two volumes. In Very Good condition. Quarter bound in black morocco with cream cloth boards and gilt lettering on spines. Housed in oublisher's blue cloth slipcase. Slipcase is in Very Good minus condition with sunning to spine and head edge. Boards have light shelf wear. Textblocks clean. Fore edges untrimmed. Signed by Robert Penn Warren and Hank O'Neal on colophon page in Volume II. JW consignment. Shelved Case 9 3/4. Volume I xi, 254 pages. Volume II 259-[589] pages. More