THE NECESSARY LIE Williams, John Poetry

8vo. Side stapled wrappers. 48 pages. No names, or marks to text. In illustrated dust-jacket, matching the front panel of the hard cover dust-jacket, with narrow flaps attached to the card wrappers. A sheet of paper (5" X 7"), with a b/w photographic image of John Williams and a short paragraph describing the book and Williams literary career, was pasted to the inside front cover and dust-jacket front flap, but is now loose and laid in. The same image and text appear on the rear panel of the hard cover dust-jacket. An unmarked copy of John Williams' second book of poetry, issued concurrently with the hard cover edition, and published the same year as STONER.