Authors starting with W from Quill & Brush

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers (1986). First edition. A Broadway production starring comedienne Lily Tomlin; illustrated with numerous full-page, black-and-white photographs of Tomlin from the show. INSCRIBED by Wagner and Tomlin to "Megan" on the title page. Fine in price-clipped dustwrapper. ... more information

Los Angeles: Times- Mirror Press (1922). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author/illustrator of this humorous guide to California. A tall, narrow book with paper-covered boards and no dust jacket, as issued. ... more information

New York: Viking Press (1966). First edition. Shadow from sticker on front pastedown, otherwise fine in bright dustwrapper with light soiling to rear panel, a few rubbed spots on spine and just a touch of edgewear to front panel and spine. ... more information

NY: Knopf, 1954. First U.S. edition of AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. Near fine in slightly soiled dustwrapper with few closed tears. ... more information

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1961. First edition. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with light soiling, two tiny indentations on front panel, light rubbing on edges and top edge of spine slightly creased. ... more information

London: Philip Allan & Co. (1928). First edition. Very good with foxing on page edges and cover edges rubbed. ... more information

(NY): Delacorte Press (1977). First edition. SIGNED on half-title page. Minor damp staining on lower rear cover (and dustwrapper verso), owner's name, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with one short, closed tear. ... more information

New York: Delacorte Press (1973). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. ... more information

Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1946. First edition. Short story collection; only a little over 4,000 copies printed. Near fine in very good dust jacket with spine, rear panel and edges tanned (though front panel still bright), scattered staining, spine rubbed, especially at head; and few small nicks and tears. ... more information

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. (1949). First edition. Touch of very minor rubbing to spine ends and tips, otherwise fine in dustwrapper with small closed edge tear in rear panel, minor rubbing to spine ends and light tanning to spine and rear panel. A very bright, attractive copy. ... more information

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc. (1947). First edition. Fine in dustwrapper with light soiling to rear panel and minor edge rubbing. A very bright, attractive copy. ... more information

NY: Rinehart & Co. (1946). First edition. Advance copy in thin pictorial self-wraps. Spine slightly faded and rubbed on edges, flap creases and bottom edge lightly worn, still about very good. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1992). First edition of his Nobel Prize lecture. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998). First edition. The first collection of essays by this Nobel winner. 14 in total, Including ones on Frost, Hemingway, Ted Hughes, Larkin, Lowell, and Naipaul. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

(Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2007). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; a list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the first edition; and estimated values with and without the dustwrapper (if applicable). Issued as a PDF file and sent to your computer; or on three-hole-punch, looseleaf page... more information

New York: Farrar/Straus/Giroux (1997). First edition. Poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Navy blue boards with gold gilt stamped title in fine condition. The fine pictorial dust jacket is reminiscent of a Caribbean island. ... more information

NY: Corinth Books, 1970. First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK to be commercially published. Fine in dustwrapper. ... more information

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1928. First edition. One of 500 copies. Waldman's essay on America's seeming indifference to death, dedicated to H. L. Mencken who published it in his magazine first. Typography by Dwiggins. Edges rubbed but otherwise very good, lacking original glassine wrapper. ... more information

Philadelphia: Treacle Press, 1976. First edition. One of 250 NUMBERED copies. Includes A MOVIE STARRING THE LATE CARY GRANT AND AN AS YET UNSIGNED ACTRESS by Tom Ahern, SMITHSBURG by Michael Brondoli, THE SEX TOKEN by James Shreeve and WIND SCALES by Keith Waldrop. Lower tips lightly bumped, otherwise fine in lightly soiled dustwrapper with minor edgewear. ... more information

New York: The John Day Company (1944). First thus, adapted from Waley's translation of MONKEY by Wu Ch'eng-en which was published in England in 1942 and in 1943 by Day. The text of this edition consists of the first seven chapters, "which has most appealed to the children of China, where monkey is as well known as Mickey Mouse is in America." Appears to be the first edition with the Kurt Wiese illustrations. Fine in slightly chipped dustwrapper with tape reinforcment on back edges... more information