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The Flower; in USA, Spring 1930
William Carlos Williams, contributor
Harold Mason, Vaughn Flannery, editors
Published Philadelphia: USA, 1930
54pp.; 30.7 x 23.3 cm. Paper wrappers printed in red and blue.
Part of Periodicals, II
The first issue of this rare Philadelphian magazine which ran only for three issues total. Dedicated to the arts, particularly architecture, photography, and the machine. In all quite a beautiful magazine, whose “ornaments are fragments of road maps, racing sheets, stock market reports and telephone books.” Contains the first appearance of “The Flower” by William Carlos Williams, and is Wallace C143 thus.
One of 450 copies.The spine broken particularly at the top, the wraps generally grubbied, with creases and short tears near the edges. Internally clean and complete, remaining an important historical document, and quite unusual.