On Posterity

from "The New World of William Carlos Williams," NYRB 2/23/2012:

"...Spring and All, the 1923 collection that included three of his masterpieces...was published by a small press in an edition of 324 copies, 'most of which went unsold.' A collection of stories called The Knife of the Times appeared in 1932; a doctor friend of Williams's later found a hundred of them being sold by a hawker on the Atlantic City boardwalk for 15 cents apiece."