Manikin Number Two. Go Go. Williams, William Carlos.

First edition of this scarce collection of Imagist poetry, including "The Red Wheelbarrow", one of the most influential masterpieces of modern American poetry. Its inclusion in Monroe Wheeler's Manikin series marks its first publication in the United States, preceded only by its inclusion in the exceedingly scarce collection Spring And All, a hybrid collection which incorporated alternating selections of free verse poetry and prose, published in Paris earlier in the same year in an edition of 300 copies only. Manikin Number Two had half the print run of Spring and All, with only 150 copies printed, and is scarce today. Spring and All had almost no circulation on the continent, and copies entering America were stopped at customs. Williams himself later said of the first publication, "Nobody ever saw it", and a mere handful of copies remain in circulation today. Monroe Wheeler's Manikin collection of Williams's poetry includes nine poems previously published in Spring and All, plus a new poem, "The Hermaphroditic Telephones". Small octavo. Original grey card wrappers sewn at the fold, titles and illustration to front in blue. A fine copy.