COUNTRY MUSIC. SELECTED EARLY POEMS
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1983). First Edition. Softcover. Spine sunned. Near Fine. Second Printing. SIGNED on the title page and additionally INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to the poet William Meredith: "For Bill,/from/Charles with/much admiration/and friendship/2 May 86."
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THE GRAVE OF THE RIGHT HAND
by WRIGHT, Charles
Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, (1970). First Edition. Hardcover. Minor rubbing and soiling to the dustwrapper. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper, price-clipped as usual. Poet's first trade book. This copy, as with all we have seen, has the poem on page 36 with a large printed X through it.
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WRIGHT: A PROFILE
by WRIGHT, Charles
(Iowa City): Grilled Flowers Press, (1979). First Edition. Softcover. Spine sunned, light soiling to fore-edge. Near Fine. Printed blue wraps. New poems by Wright with an interview and critical essay by David St. John. In addition to this trade issue there was a signed and lettered issue. This copy SIGNED by the author on the title page and... Read More
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THE VENICE NOTEBOOK
by WRIGHT, Charles
(Boston): (Barn Dream Press), (1971). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Stiff pictorial wraps. Copy #76 of 100 (of a total edition of 500 copies) SIGNED by the poet. Photograph of the poet on the rear cover by James Tate.
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GENIUS AND THE MOBOCRACY
by WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd
New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, (1949). First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to spine. Near Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Louis Sullivan. Quarto (8" x 10-1/4") bound in original white cloth. A biography of his teacher, Louis H. Sullivan, along with Wright's views on the evolution of modern architecture. Illustrated with reproductions of 39 previously unpublished drawings given... Read More
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THE RHINE, ITALY, AND GREECE. In a series of drawings from nature by Colonel Cockburn, Major Irton; Messrs. Bartlett, Leitch, and Wolfensberger
by WRIGHT, G. N
London & Paris: Fisher, Son, & Co, [1840]. First Edition. Hardcover. Plates very clean with tissue guards present. Binding tight with possible repair; hinges rubbed. Very Good. An early issue with just Fisher listed as publisher. Two quarto (8-1/4" x 10-3/4") volumes bound together in contemporary half green morocco leather and cloth with morocco corners, all edges... Read More
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THE GREEN WALL
by WRIGHT, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Good dustwrapper, worn but complete but for small chips at the spine tips and corners and a long closed split between the front panel and inside flap. Exceptional Association Copy. Poet's very scarce first book, part of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with an... Read More
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TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE
by WRIGHT, James
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Mild spotting to spine. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. The dustwrapper was designed by Antonio Frasconi.
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to John Crowe Ransom Praising Theodore Roethke
by WRIGHT, James
Seattle, 24 April 1954. Letter. About Fine. Fine, single-spaced typed letter on one side of a 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to poet and teacher John Crowe Ransom SIGNED "Jim Wright" about permission to reprint a poem first published in THE KENYON REVIEW. Wright, 26 at the time, was a former student of Ransom's at Kenyon College... Read More
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AMERICAN FICTION 1774-1850. A Contribution toward a Bibliography
by WRIGHT, Lyle H
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1969. Second Revised Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.
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AMERICAN FICTION 1851-1875. A Contribution toward a Bibliography
by WRIGHT, Lyle H
San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with uneven sunning. Second Printing with additions and corrections.
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M31: A FAMILY ROMANCE
by WRIGHT, Stephen
New York: Harmony, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper.
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by WYLIE, Philip
South Miami, 28 November 1962. Letter. Creases from mailing. Near Fine. A one-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on 8-1/2" x 11" paper to Herman Harvey of the University of Southern California declining his invitation to appear on his educational television series. Wylie is perhaps best known for his book GENERATION OF VIPERS.
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THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
by WYSS, Johann David
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Fine in an intact but soiled Very Good slipcase. David Gentleman. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in orange imported handmade grasscloth prepared by the primitive natives of a Pacific isle from the inner bark of honeysuckle stems, with a buckram shelfback stamped in gold leaf. Designed by Will Carter and illustrated with... Read More
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THE SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON
by WYSS, Johann David
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1963. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with some staining. David Gentleman. Quarto (7-3/4" x 11") bound in orange imported handmade grasscloth prepared by the primitive natives of a Pacific isle from the inner bark of honeysuckle stems, with a buckram shelfback stamped in gold leaf. Designed by Will Carter and... Read More
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REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by YATES, Richard
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper with the spine tanned but in this case much less severely than typically found. Advance Copy in plain printed white dustwrapper with praise from the publisher on the front and rear panels, including a blurb by Alfred Kazin. Yates's powerful... Read More
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ELEVEN KINDS OF LONELINESS
by YATES, Richard
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1962). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, crisp copy in an about Fine dustwrapper with very mild sunning to the spine. His second book and first collection of stories, which along with his first novel, REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, established Yates as one of the most important writers of fiction of the latter twentieth century.
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REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
by YATES, Richard
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, (1961). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Good dustwrapper with edgewear and chipping at the top of the spine and the rear panel. Yates's powerful first book which Kurt Vonnegut called "the Great Gatsby of our time." Tennessee Williams said of this book: "Here is more than fine writing; here is what, added... Read More
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SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH
by YATES, Richard
[New York]: Delacorte Press / Seymour Lawrence, [1975]. Photograph. Fine. A 5" x 7" publicity photograph for the book DISTURBING THE PEACE depicting a bearded Yates. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the blank left margin: "for Al Newgarden/with best wishes always,/Dick Yates/11-2-90."
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A GOOD SCHOOL
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. hardcover. Slight dust soiling to top bulked edge. Just about Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. NOT the rather common Book Club edition which also states "First Printing."
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THE EASTER PARADE
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First Edition. Wraps. Title in ink on spine. Light creasing and soiling to margins of a few pages. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in tall (10-3/4") red wraps.
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DISTURBING THE PEACE
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, (1975). First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper. Yates's fourth book, and perhaps his most uncommon. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "for Al Newgarden/with warm regards,/Dick Yates/10-2-90."
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A GOOD SCHOOL
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte Press, (1978). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Uncorrected Proof copy in gray printed wraps with author and title in ink on spine as well as date of publication also in ink on the front cover. Laid in is a photocopied review slip.
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LIARS IN LOVE
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte, (1981). First Edition. wraps. Mild sunning to the spine. Near Fine. Uncorrected Proof in light blue printed wraps of this fine collection of short stories by a master of the form. Photocopied publicity slips laid in. Publication date and price on small label pasted to the front endpaper.
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DISTURBING THE PEACE
by YATES, Richard
New York: Delacorte, (1975). First Edition. wraps. Paperclip rust impression to the first two pages, spine a little sunned with the adhesive label bearing the title beginning to fray. Near Fine and uncommon. Uncorrected Proof in red printed wraps of Yates's fourth book, and perhaps his most uncommon, especially in this state.
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