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Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015

 Person

Found in 182 Collections and/or Records:

The Girl in Glass / Smith, William Jay ; Huizdovsky, Jacques., 2002

 Item
Identifier: CC-42652-44670
Scope and Contents

This book was a birthday present from William Jay Smith to Marvin Sackner. Huizdovsky contributed woodcuts to illustrate the book of love poems by Smith. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42630-44647
Scope and Contents

This is the finished drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. It was partially typed and then Smith drew over the typed characters in blue ink. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42631-44648
Scope and Contents

This is a preliminary drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42632-44649
Scope and Contents

This is a preliminary drawing for the printed Christmas card with the same title. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Old Man on the Isthmus / Smith, William Jay., 1957

 Item
Identifier: CC-42633-44650
Scope and Contents

This is the printed Christmas card (1957) sent to William Jay Smith's friends. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1957

The Pyramid of the Louvre / Smith, William Jay., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02069-2107
Scope and Contents

This is the original version of the poem. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Pyramid of the Louvre / William Jay Smith; Bertrand Dorny., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02067-2105
Scope and Contents

Book object unfolds to form a pyramid. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Pyramid of the Louvre / William Jay Smith; Bertrand Dorny., 1990

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Identifier: CC-02071-2109
Scope and Contents

The book object unfolds to form a pyramid. This sample copy from Dorny to Smith is an incomplete copy of a book object done in collaboration with Kenneth White, " Le Triangle Atlantique." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1990

The Spectra Hoax / Smith, William Jay., 2000

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Identifier: CC-36331-38121
Scope and Contents

The author reveals the story of a literary hoax, and the actual poems published by the Spectra poets, Emanuel Morgan and Anne Knish. Smith also contributes a preface relating the hoax to contemporary cultural values. Originally published in 1961. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2000

The Stork / Smith, William Jay., 1954

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Identifier: CC-42603-44619
Scope and Contents

This poem pamphlet announces the birth of Gregory Jay Smith, son of William Jay Smith and his first wife, Barbara Howes. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1954

The Telephone / Smith, William Jay ; Chukovsky, Kornei ; Lent, Blair., 1975

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Identifier: CC-42597-44613
Scope and Contents

Willian Jay Smith adapted the nonsense poems of Chukovsky into English from the Russian. The book is illustrated by Blair Lent. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1975

The Tin Can / Smith, William Jay ; DePol, John., 1988

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Identifier: CC-42596-44612
Scope and Contents

William Jay Smith also contributed an afterward. The wood engravings are by John DePol and M.A. Gelfand is the printer. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1988

The World below the Window: Poems 1937-1997 / Smith, William Jay., 1998

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Identifier: CC-29848-31229
Scope and Contents

The Sackners attended the publication and 80th birthday celebration of Smith's anthology of poetry at the Century Club in New York. William Jay Smith presented them with this copy, a personal thank you note for attending his party, two photographs and two reviews of the book. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1998