William Carlos WILLIAMS

American edition based on the 1929 translation by the poet William Carlos Williams of Philippe Soupault's 1928 post-Surrealist work, Les Dernières Nuits de Paris. Enriched with illustrations, an introduction by the author written in 1980, "William Carlos Williams in Paris. By Day and by Night," translated into English for the present edition by Ron Padgett, a publisher's note, and a reprinted epigraph.

Complete with its violet dust jacket, with the price indicated on the rear pa

First edition of this magazine led by Ivan Goll, uniting French surrealists then in exile in the United States with their American peers.
Several contributions including those from Saint-John Perse, Roger Caillois, William Carlos Williams, Alain Bosquet, Ivan Goll, André Breton, Aimé Césaire, André Masson, Henry Miller, Kurt Seligmann, Denis de Rougemont, Julien Gracq, Eugène Guillevic, Robert Lebel...
Illustrations by George Barker, André Masson, Wifredo Lam, Yves Tanguy.
Pleasant and rare collection despite a small piece missing at the foot of the spine on the double issue 2 & 3.
Complete collection in 6 issues and 5 deliveries (numbers 2 & 3 being double) of this im