The Desert Music and Other Poems. By William Carlos Williams. First Trade Edition, First Printing. Random House. New York, 1954.

William Carlos Williams is a beloved American poet whose imagist and modernist works remain some of the best from the era. Poems like “This Is Just to Say” and “The Red Wheelbarrow” are often assigned reading and sources of inspiration still today. Williams was the winner of the National Book Award for Poetry and a posthumous Pulitzer Prize. The Poetry Society of America named its premier prize after him. In The Desert Music, Williams provides a series of poems that demonstrate his genius after a long literary career. The title poem has come to be known as one of the best from the latter part of his life. The work was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry in 1955. For any collector of American poetry, it is an essential volume.

This first trade edition, first printing is in about-fine condition. In the original cloth, fine. Text block very nearly fine, only former owner’s inscription to front free endpaper. In the original dust jacket, very good with only minor creases, chipping, and closed tears to top edges.

An about-fine first trade edition by William Carlos Williams.