Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana

8vo. Original printed grey blue wrappers, uncut (extremities toned, separation along front joint, some tiny chips to spine ends); folding case.

FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 300 COPIES, many of which were confiscated and destroyed by American customs officials, "as foreign stuff and therefore probably salacious and destructive of American morals. In effect, Spring and All all but disappeared as a cohesive text until its republication nearly ten years after Williams' death" (Paul Mariani, William Carlos Williams, pp.208-209). Spring and All was cited as one of the 88 "Books That Shaped America" by the Library of Congress in 2012. Wallace A7a.