The Broken Span

by William Carlos Williams

$40 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1941. First edition. First printing, wrappered issue total edition was 2000, with 300 in boards . Stiff wraps in gray paper wrappers printed in black and fuschia. Very Good in Very Good, slight edge-toned dustwrapper. In the publisher's Poet of the Month series. Includes fifteen poems later appearing in Volume 1 of Paterson 1946 . Wallace A22.

  • Printing: first
  • Binding: Wrappers

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