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New Directions Paperback (NDP335) first edition. 158 poems, originally as hardcover in 1969. No page numbers given. Back cover of book is very faintly toned around edges, interior is tight and clean.

b-583 Pages clean and tight.

First impression of the first Paperback edition (First published in hard cover by the University of North Carolina Press in 1969). Introduction by Guy Davenport, written at Lexington, Kentucky. ***Near fine in monochrome illustrated wrappers. Spine tight. No reading creases to spine. No inscriptions. No foxing. Pages clean. Wrappers bright. 204mm x 136mm. Unpaginated. ***'An Ear in Bartram's Tree, a selection made by Jonathan Williams himself, includes 158 poems written over the ten-year period 1957-67; it was first published in hard cover by the University of North Carolina Press in 1969. Amusing, satirical and witty, Williams has yet been called "the most lyrical of young poets", evidence of the great range of mood and style at which he excels. Also varying from the academic all the way to the ironic are the elaborate notes appended to the poems in this volume. ***The title of the collection celebrates the early American naturalist William Bartram's discovery of that rarest of native trees, Franklinia Alatamaha, which has not been seen int he wild since 1803.' (Quote from rear wrapper blurb). ***First impression of the first paperback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

1972 Williams, Jonathan AN EAR IN BARTRAM'S TREE NY: New Directions Press, c1972 introduction Guy Davenport unpaginated 8vo Remainder mark on lower edge of textblock, minor soiling on outer edges of textblock, near fine trade paperback.

A few short tears around the jacket edges closed inside with tape. Clean boards, firm binding, unmarked pages and endpapers. Not ex-library, no stickers. Ships in a box.

New Directions, NY, c.1972, 1st.trade paperbk.prtg., unpaginated, signed inscription by author, foxed foredges, smells a bit of tobacco(?), G $

Octavo. 5.5 x 8 in. Unpaginated. Fine in pictorial wrappers. Signed by Williams on the title page.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Near fine in good price clipped dustjacket.