NMLP P-033316 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04

The Collected Earlier Poems

William Carlos Williams · New Directions (Norfolk, CT) · 1951

US New Directions first edition, 1951. Copies in the original dust jacket in the first printing are decidedly uncommon; the companion volume Collected Later Poems is a separate later book and should not be conflated with this title.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033316 for "The Collected Earlier Poems" by William Carlos Williams (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033316, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).