A very good or better copy of the rare 1934 first edition of "William Carlos Williams Collected Poems 1921-1931," lacking the dust jacket. This would be the very first book published by the short lived “The Objectivist Press." The press founded by Louis Zukofsky, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams launched itself into existence in January 1934 with the publication of this very book, printed in an initial edition of 500 by J.J. Little and Ives Company, in New York, and was sold by subscription for $2.00 and with the preface by Wallace Stevens.  Condition: 12mo. 134 pages - Publishers' red cloth with printed paper spine label affixed. Fore and tail edges uncut. Just light edge wear, softening to the spine tips and a tiny crease to the paper spine label. Overall, a very collectible copy of this rare first volume of collected poems from one of towering giants of mid-twentieth century American poetry. William Carlos Williams would write poetry until his death in 1963, and his works would inspire the American surrealists of the 1930s and later the Beat Poets of the 1950s.