Strike the Father Dead
by Wain, John
London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by Wain on the front endpaper. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped (18s net), lightly rubbed and soiled. Red cloth, faintly rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wain's novel about a young jazz pianist... Read More
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Another Life
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straux & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Noonday N 443. Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed, a small closed tear at the top edge of the front wrap, scar on the back from a sticker removal. Square, bound with some reading wear, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean internally. From the Nobel Prize winner,... Read More
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The Temple of My Familiar
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($19.95). Quarter green cloth with yellow paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Her Blue Body Everything We Know; Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.95). Quarter brown cloth with printed paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, lightly foxed at the top edge, clean internally. A collection of Walker's previous poetry together with new and unpublished work.
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Cherry
by Walker, Nico
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.95), soiled at the back panel. Black buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Walker's debut novel about a war vet-turned banker robber, being adapted into a film by Anthony and Joe Russo and... Read More
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The Ringer
by Wallace, Edgar
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and the surface and edges, tidemark on the back panel. Black buckram with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Wallace's thriller... Read More
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The Second Lady
by Wallace, Irving
New York: New American Library, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by editor Maryann Palumbo on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), rubbed and bumped at the top edge. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the... Read More
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That Swedish Girl
by Wallace, Wolf
New York: Softcover Library, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, creased at the top fold. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, initials on the first page, a few pages where the fore-edge coloring has bled onto the margins, clean otherwise. A work that answers the question "Do those Swedish... Read More
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The Bridges of Madison County
by Waller, Robert James
New York: Warner, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Waller on the half-title page. About Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95). Green paper on the spine, pushed at the head and foot, with light brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Waller's classic Midwestern love story between a National Geographic photographer and... Read More
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The Bridges of Madison County
by Waller, Robert James
New York: Warner, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95), bumped at the head of the spine, a strip of fading down the rear spine fold. Green paper on the spine with light brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, former owner's bookplate on the front endpaper.... Read More
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Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization
by Wall, Patrick D.
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly bumped, a short closed tear at the top panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The M.I.T. professor's novel about a psychiatrist who has his patients form trios to... Read More
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Jack Kerouac: Statement in Brown
by Walsh, Joy
Clarence Center: Textile Bridge Press, 1984. First Edition. Paperback. Good. Preface by George Dardess. Afterword by Michael Basinski. Very Good. Wraps curled at the fore-edge, bumped at the corners. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of critical essays about Kerouac and his works.
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UFOs Are Real Here's Proof
by Walters, Edward; Maccabee, Bruce
New York: Avon Books, 1997. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. With the publisher's publicity sheet laid-in, with a note on Avon stationary to Jim Moseley to send information about his magazine. Inscribed on the title page by Maccabee to Tom Benson. Near Fine. An indent on the front cover. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. From... Read More
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Ladidah
by Walthall, Hugh
Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Walthall on the title page and with textual corrections on a few page. Near Fine. Wraps faintly toned and rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.
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Sons of the Ocean Deeps
by Walton, Bryce
Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed, faded at the spine, lightly soiled. Pale blue cloth, unevenly soiled on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. A juvenile/young adult science fiction novel about exploring the ocean floor.
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The Coming Human Aliens
by Walton, Don Ray
Lakeville: Galde Press Inc, 2008. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Signed by Walton on the title page. Near Fine. Wraps lightly bumped an curled. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Walton's explanations about the Aztec UFO crash of 1948, Roswell Incident of 1947, alien pregnancies, and other UFO-related topics. From the collection of ufologist Tom Benson.
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Dali/Miro; Masters of Surrealism
by Walton, Paul H.
New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.95), faintly bumped. White and grey boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A heavily illustrated work that presents "concise biographical essays and individual notes" on the artists' most important works.
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The Secret Sex Service
by Wand, James
New York: Beeline Classics | Carlyle Publishing, 1980. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. BL5621-V. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, a scuff at the bottom of the front, a few stains at the back. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Previously published as Three's a Ball.
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The Eye and the Finger
by Wandrei, Donald
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), soiled at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Black buckram, lightly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper, clean internally. A... Read More
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The Eye and the Finger
by Wandrei, Donald
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($3.00), toned at the spine and edges of the panels. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature on the front endpape, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. A collection of horror... Read More
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Poems for Midnight
by Wandrei, Donald
Sauk City: Arkham House, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), toned at the spine, soiled and with tears at the bottom of the front panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of Wandrei's previously published poems of fantasy and imagination.... Read More
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Salvage the Bones
by Ward, Jesmyn
New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ward on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). White paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. With Hurricane Katrina building in the Gulf of Mexico, Ward's National Book Award-winning novel tells the story of... Read More
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Ward, Jesmyn
New York: Scribner's, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Red cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Winner of the National Book Award in 2017, hailed as reminiscent of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, called one of the best books of 2017 by former President Barack... Read More
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Records of Big Game (Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and Thirteenth Editions)
by Ward, Roland
London: Roland Ward, Various. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Six editions of Roland Ward's classic hunting reference books. Fifth Edition (1907): Good in the red publisher's cloth, lacking the jacket, mottled on the spine and farthest edge on the front board, other general spotting as well. Square with a lightly worn binding, hinges cracked, zebra endpapers with the bookplate... Read More
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The Wild Goose Chase
by Warner, Rex
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), generally rubbed and worn, a few creases, smaller chips at the edges and corners. Beige cloth with black and red ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a red top stain,... Read More
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