The Night the Gods Smiled: An Inspector Charlie Salter novel
by WRIGHT, Eric
London: Crime Club / Collins, 1983. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; 181pp.; dustjacket. Minor spot of discoloration to upper textblock, Near Fine copy. The dustjacket shows mild rubbing to the extremities and front panel, Very Good+. First Charlie Salter mystery. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best... Read More
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Death In The Old Country: An Inspector Charlie Salter novel
by WRIGHT, Eric
Toronto: Crime Club / Collins, 1985. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; 175pp.; dustjacket by Howard Barthrop. Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped with price sticker on the rear panel ($17.95, Duthie Books) with nicks and short closed tears to the extremities, Very Good+. Third Charlie Salter mystery. Winner... Read More
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THE BEFORELIFE
by Wright, Franz
New York: Knopf, 2001. First edition. An uncorrected proof of the poet's first book with Knopf, his second would win the Pulitzer Prize.
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Their Yesterdays
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
Chicago: Book Supply Company, 1912. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). First edition sheets in the remainder binding, with A.L. Burt slug at base of spine, but in the correct Book Supply Company dustwrapper. Green cloth hardcover, titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 311pp. Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and rubbed... Read More
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A Son of His Father
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1925. First Edition. First printing, with publisher's (1) at end of text. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth hardcover, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 355pp. Scattered faint foxing, scuff to upper edge of text block, else tight and Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed on lighter portions,... Read More
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Witness to Witchcraft
by WRIGHT, Harry B.
London: Souvenir Press, 1957. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, light wear to extremities, in a bright, clean dustjacket with some inoffensive wear to the edges and corners, and some minor soiling to the white rear panel. A very good copy with a little fraying around the edges. 218pp. Internally... Read More
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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
Chicago: Book Supply Company, 1919. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 352pp. Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and edgeworn with triangular chip to upper margin of rear panel and small loss at crown; VG. A romance of crime and redemption set... Read More
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Exit
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); red textured cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 315pp. Gilt slightly dulled, with some trivial soil to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; Near Fine. The dustjacket is remarkably bright and fresh, with some pinpoint rubbing and a few tiny nicks to note;... Read More
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Six Months at Graefenberg; with Conversations in the Saloon, on Nonresistance and Other Subjects
by WRIGHT, H[enry] C.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1845. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; viii, 358, [2]pp; with two pages of publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Rachel R. Janes; ownership inscription of Edward Wayne, 1946. Slightly cocked, faded, and rubbed; sewing slightly loosened with one... Read More
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THE GREEN WALL
by Wright, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Patterned paper-covered boards in dustjacket; small 8vo. 93 pp. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "For Leyta (?) Willis, With gratitude and high regards from [and signed] Jim Wright June 1957". This is an early copy: the book was published in mid-April; although the inscribee is unknown, the inscription would suggest a... Read More
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THE LION'S TAIL AND EYES
by Wright, James; William Duffy; Robert Bly (signed by)
Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962. First edition. Plain card covers in printed dust jacket; 8vo 45 pp. Ten poems each from three principles of the influential little mag "The Fifties", "The Sixties". The first appearance of Bly in a book (after a broadsheet and a translation); the first appearance of Wright's great (arguably his most famous) poem "Lying in... Read More
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The Temple in Nimes
by WRIGHT, James
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. First edition. Number 47 of 150 (176 total) copies from Nancy King and William Ferguson's Metacom press, hand-set in Spectrum & Centaur types on Antique Laid paper. Fine in sewn Fabriano wrappers with printed paper cover label. The first publication in book form of these poems, some of the last he wrote: on Rome, Ohio,... Read More
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TWO CITIZENS
by Wright, James
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth spine over orange cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 59 pp. Wright's sixth collection includes "The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martin's Ferry, Ohio." Internally clean, ink ownership to flyleaf. Jacket spine slightly toned and lightly rubbed, a small nick to the head of... Read More
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THE GREEN WALL
by Wright, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. A Review copy with reviewer's slip laid in. Hardcover. Small octavo; patterned paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 93pp. Prior owner's name in blue pencil. At the end of Auden's introduction quoting lines from Wright someone has written (in pencil) the final quatrain in reverse, and commented interestingly: "note the hovering image of the... Read More
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A Reply to Matthew Arnold [Limited Edition]
by WRIGHT, James
[Durango, CO]: Logbridge-Rhodes, [1981]. First Edition. Limited to 22 copies wrapped in handmade papers and numbered for the series of Limited Editions, of which this is no. 7. 12mo (19cm.); original grey unadorned stitched wrappers; 19pp. Fine.
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The New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [etc...]
by WRIGHT, Paul
Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1818. Second Winchester edition of this standard Life of Christ, first published in England in 1782. Octavo. Contemporary sheep; 512pp. Non-authorial ink presentation inscription at close of Preface: "Georg W. Heath son of Tomas & Matilda Heath was born May (the) 25th in the year of our Lord A.D. 1843 - his book - give... Read More
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American Hunger
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Row, Publisher's, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 148pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $8.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing overall. Wright's continuation of his autobiographical work Black Boy, covering his struggle to create a... Read More
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Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Reprint. Octavo (22cm); maroon boards quarter bound in black, with titling stamped in white on the spine; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; 358pp. Lower board edges bumped, thin crack at gutter between half-title and frontispiece; with mild offset from binders glue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned,... Read More
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Native Son
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1940. Reprint, issued by the Book-of-the-Month Club, with "First Edition" and "A-P" code on copyright page (see Ahearn). Octavo (21cm); second binding in gray cloth, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; gray topstain; dustjacket; xii,359,[1]pp. Base of spine gently nudged, else a fresh, Fine copy. In the pictorial dustjacket by... Read More
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Letters to Joe C. Brown
by WRIGHT, Richard; Thomas Knipp (Ed & transl)
Kent: Kent State University Libraries, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; card wrappers, 16pp. Slight toning to margin of rear wrapper, else Fine. Issued as Kent State LIbraries Occasional Paper no.1. Ten letters written by Wright to his boyhood friend Joe C. Brown, between 1938 and 1945. Includes a brief Introduction by Knipp.
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Rite of Passage
by WRIGHT, Richard (novel); RAMPERSAD, Arnold (afterword)
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.25cm); purple cloth, titled in silver on spine, with pictorial elements blind embossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [vi],151,[3]pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $12.95), with some trivial external wear. A posthumously published novel by the author of Native Son.
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Schwarze Macht zur Afrikanischen Revolution [Black Power]
by WRIGHT, Richard
Hamburg: Claassen Verlag, [1956]. First German Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's cloth in black decorative dust jacket, yellow topstain; 342pp. Some light shelf wear to jacket extremities including two tiny closed tears at top edge of upper panel with minor creasing, some foxing to upper cover cloth, else Very Good and sound. Wright's seventh book, which examines the revolutionary atmosphere... Read More
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Eight Men
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Pyramid Books, 1969. First Pyramid Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; yellow-orange edge-staining; 204, [4]pp ads. A few pinpoint rubbed spots, else Fine and unread. Collection of eight short stories, each centered on "a Negro, involved cruelly with his surroundings, beaten down by them; each central figure is in one way or another misunderstood by the world he... Read More
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The Illustrated Family Christian Almanac for the United States, for the Year of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 1860
by WRIGHT, Samuel H., ed
New York: American Tract Society, [1859]. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); stitched self-wrappers; 60pp.; woodcut illus. throughout. Light dustiness and a bit of wear at extremities, else Very Good and fresh overall.
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The Siege of Malta
by WRIGHT, S. Fowler
London: Frederick Muller LTD, 1942. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in white to lightly sunned spine, minor edgewear, in a clean and bright pricelipped pictorial dustjacket with some marginal creasing and closed tears. A very solid copy. 728pp. Internally clean, uniformly toned throughout, most likely due to wartime economy standard paper stock. The second part of... Read More
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