The Outcast Poets. Number 8 of the Outcast Series of Chapbooks
by WILLEFORD, Charles; Thomajan, P.K.; deFord, Miriam Allan; Anthony, Robert; Kaler, F.H.
Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop, 1947. First edition. Quarto. Loose sheets in printed envelope, as issued. Small abrasion and pin-hole to envelope's upper extremity, else Fine. This is Willeford's first appearance in print, preceding his first book by more than a year. ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' & 'The Apocalypse'). Number... Read More
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The Laborer and the Capitalist [Review Copy, with Prospectus]
by WILLEY, Freeman Otis
New York: Equitable Publishing Co, [1896]. Octavo (21cm). Maroon cloth titled in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt; [iv],viii,[312],[2]pp; frontispiece portrait. Lightly rubbed and bumped, overall Near Fine. With a form bound in at rear for readers to pay for copies to be distributed to "leaders of thought." Also with an 1898 letter addressed to... Read More
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Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 Indian War [Dedication Copy]
by WILLERT, James; Warren A. Van Ess (illus)
La Mirada, CA: James Willert, (1977). First, Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. This copy lengthily inscribed on front endpaper to Carol McGovern Cerf, daughter of the dedicatee (posthumous) Dr. William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1967). Quarto; blue cloth hardcover with silver foil stamping to spine and front cover; 476pp; illus. Also laid in is a substantial typed letter, signed, from... Read More
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The Jazz Masters Series (complete): Jazz Masters of the 20's - 30's - 40's - 50's -1957-1969; Jazz Masters of New Orleans
by [JAZZ & BLUES] HADLOCK, Richard; Rex Stewart; Ira Gitler; Joe Goldberg; Martin Williams
New York: Macmillan, 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255+223+290+246+288+287pp; illustrated with photographic plates (halftones). All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper edge else all Very Good or better. An indispensable... Read More
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The Happy End
by WILLIAMS, Ben Ames; Kenneth Roberts, fwd; Churchill Ettinger, illus
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). Limited Edition. No. 103 of 1250 hand-numbered copies. Octavo. Grey rough-weave linen over cloth-covered boards; gilt leather spine label; 240pp; frontispiece and eight unnumbered leaves of plates by Churchill Ettinger. Gentle toning to spine and endpapers; small smudge to margin of frontispiece, still a tight, Very Good or better copy.
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Rambling Rose
by WILLINGHAM, Calder
New York: Delacorte, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Fuchsia cloth hardcover; dustjacket; pink publisher's top-stain, 309pp. Minuscule scuff at base of rear board, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at spine-folds and extremities, VG+. Quite nice copy of the Atlanta-born author's 1972 semi-autobiographical... Read More
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Geraldine Bradshaw
by WILLINGHAM, Calder
New York: Vanguard Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in copper foil on spine and author's initials on front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 415pp. Some very light offset from binders glue on pastedowns, else Fine, with the topstain notably bright. Dustjacket is unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing at the edges and light wear at... Read More
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Oreo: A Perspective on Race and Marginal Men and Women
by WILLIE, Charles V.
Wakefield, MA: Parameter Press, [1975]. First Edition. Slim octavo (22.75cm.); original brown printed card wrappers; 95pp. Fine.
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Hugo Black: A Study in Judicial Process
by WILLIAMS, Charlotte
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; vii, 208pp. Minor foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, and edges of textblock. Pencil eraser-sized marker dot to bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing some minor shelf wear, as well as mild foxing to interior flaps and interior of jacket. Very Good.... Read More
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SELECTED POEMS
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994. First edition. 277 pp. An uncorrected proof copy in plain tan printed wrappers. This copy submitted to a judge (the chair in fact), another poet, with a typed letter (tls from a publicist) listing it and two other books as FS&G's three submissions for the 1994 National Book Awards. Near fine. ... Read More
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REPAIR
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999. First edition. Uncorrected proof in glossy white wrappers with publisher printed material laid in. The Pulitzer Prize-winning title for 2000. Fine.
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THE VIGIL
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow wrappers. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Fine.
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A DAY FOR ANNE FRANK
by Williams, C. K.
Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1968. First Edition. Saddle-stitched illustrated paper wrappers; 4to. [10pp.] Illustrations based on photographs of holocaust victims in a haunting near marbled-look. One of 1,000 copies; the author's first book. With a signed, single page typed letter from C.K. Williams laid in (evidently to a collector), written from Paris in 1987. The letter discusses the author's notebooks, and... Read More
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FLESH AND BLOOD
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987. First edition. An uncorrected proof in red printed wrapers of his NBCC winning collection. Pub date and price written in otherwise unmarked. With publisher information sheet laid in. Front corners lightly bumped; quite tight and clean.
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A DREAM OF MIND
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers. A light crease to the front covers, otherwise quite fine.
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THE VIGIL [Inscribed]
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Octavo; black boards; dustjacket; 78pp. Inscribed "For Nick [Delbanco] - admiration, and affection, Charlie", dated "Ann Arbor, 2000", and, also, signed with his usual initials on title page. Bottom tips and tail slightly bumped, but still very close to Fine in like dustwrapper. Novelist Delbanco was a professor at Michigan.... Read More
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The Gaffe"; An Evening of Poetry with Paul Muldoon and C. K. Williams
by Williams, C. K.
Princeton, NJ: The Friends of the Princeton University Library, 26 January 2006. First Edition. Single sheet folded twice; oblong 8vo. "The Friends of the Princeton University Library. 'The Lure of the Library: The Friends at 75.' An evening of poetry with Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams. A keepsake of the annual Winter dinner, Saturday, 26 January 2006. Printed for... Read More
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A DREAM OF MIND [Signed]
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. Octavo; black cloth; dustjacket; 100pp. Signed (with his characteristic initials) on the ffep. Very slight bump to head of spine, affecting dustwrapper, still Fine.
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POEMS 1963-1983
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1988. First edition. Octavo; brown cloth; dustjacket; 244pp., w/ index of titles & first lines. A Fine copy in like dustwrapper. Selected from his first five collections of poems and published the year after he won the NBCC. In 2000, Williams won the Pulitzer Prize.
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MISGIVINGS
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000. First edition. Uncorrected proof in peach wrappers with publisher printed material laid in. Memoirs in short takes. Fine.
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POEMS 1963-1983
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1988. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in blue plain printed wraps.
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ELEGY FOR AN ARTIST
by Williams, C. K.
Princeton, NJ: The Typography Studio, 2001. First Edition. Pamphlet of marbled paper card wrappers, printed paper label; large, oblong 8vo, 8 watercolor illustrations by Bruce McGrew tipped in. First edition of this suite of poems for artist Bruce McGrew (1937-1999). One of 120 numbered copies signed by Williams. First printing of the poem, later in Threepenny Review. Lovely production... Read More
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REPAIR
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999. First edition. Octavo; boards; dustjacket; 69pp. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper not price-clipped; rubbed; Near Fine. The Pulitzer Prize-winning volume for poetry for 2000.
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A DREAM OF MIND
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers. Spine faded, light wear, still at least very good.
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The Lure of Monte Carlo
by WILLIAMSON, C. N. and A. M.
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1924. Octavo (19cm); light blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 189pp; black and white photographic (halftone) frontispiece illustration with seven illustrations throughout on glossy paper. Foxing to edges of textblock and interior, with light off-setting to pastedowns and endpapers; Very Good. Dustwrapper, unclipped... Read More
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