Authors starting with W from Charles Agvent, ABAA

(Mansfield): M. Martino, [1997]. Reprint. Fine. Octavo. Limited to 175 copies, this important work is the standard in the field of Swiss travel and topography. In all, 7500 fully described books are arranged regionally & chronologically, with collations and frequent annotations. Covers books on the Alps, including various accounts of ascents. Included is a comprehensive 60-page index as well as the supplement, originally separately published a decade after the original publication. Text in German and Fren... more information

New Haven: Yale, 1935. First Edition. Small leather bookplate. NF in VG dw.. ... more information

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1986. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine, as issued. One of 250 numbered & SIGNED copies. ... more information

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1993. First Edition. Pictorial boards. Fine in glassine, as issued. One of 125 numbered & SIGNED copies. ... more information

Cambridge, MA: The Sans Souci Press, (1968). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth in dustwrapper; 35 pages. Copy #3 of only 99 SIGNED copies printed at the Ferguson Press on Fabriano Book paper. This copy additionally INSCRIBED, along with small doodles, by the poet on the front endpaper to the National Book Award-winning Poet Clayton Eshleman and his wife Caryl: "For Clayton & Caryl Eshleman,/DEATH does not mean very much more than the/scattering of one's possessions. ... more information

New York: Wilson Co., 1936. First Edition. VG in worn dw. 6 plates. 192 pages. Includes a chapter on unfinished novels. ... more information

n.p.: Minn. Center for Book Arts, 1988. Broadside. Fine. A 9" x 14" broadside, one of 150 numbered and SIGNED copies by the Nobel Prize-winning Caribbean poet. ... more information

(New York): (Limited Editions Club), (1983). First Edition. cloth. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with pitting resulting in several areas with loss of paper. Romare Beardon. Quarto (9-1/2" x 12") bound in cotton cloth decorated with a design by artist Romare Bearden from 15 separate hand-cut silk-screens printed by hand in Italy. Copy #333 of 2000 numbered copies with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky and color lithographic reproductions by Romare Bearden. SIGNED by the author and the artist on the colophon... more information

(New York): (Limited Editions Club), (1983). First Edition. cloth. Some sunning to spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. Romare Beardon. Quarto (9-1/2" x 12") bound in cotton cloth decorated with a design by artist Romare Bearden from fifteen separate hand-cut silk-screens printed by hand in Italy. Copy #1178 of 2000 numbered copies with an introduction by Joseph Brodsky and color lithographic reproductions by Romare Bearden. SIGNED by the author and the artist on the colophon page. Lovely book with the O... more information

Hartford: F. D. Bolles & Co., 1818. First Edition. calf. Light to moderate foxing; worming to the inner gutter of about fifty pages in the middle occasionally affecting the text; clean horizontal tear across the dedication leaf without loss. Very Good. Duodecimo (12mo: 3-7/8" x 6-7/8") bound in contemporary tree calf with gilt rules on the spine and a gilt-lettered black morocco spine label; xii, 288 pages [last two pages misnumbered 299 and 300, as apparently with all copies]. Illustrated with a frontisp... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in dustwrapper with touch of foxing at rear. Very nice copy. Author's second book & first novel. ... more information

New York: Harcourt Brace Johanovich, (1981). First Edition. Cloth-backed boards. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Beautiful copy!. A collection of stories published before THE COLOR PURPLE. ... more information

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1942. First Edition. cloth. Fine in just about Fine dustwrapper with no tears or chips. African-American poet's first book, with an introduction by Stephen Vincent Benet. ... more information

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1992. hardcover. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Elizabeth Catlett. Large folio (18-1/2" x 22-1/2") bound in full imported red Japanese linen in a slipcase covered in black cotton with a gray leather label inset. Walker's most popular poem has been printed letterpress and strikingly illustrated with 6 fine lithographs by Elizabeth Catlett in this beautiful book. One of only 400 numbered copies SIGNED by the author and by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter la... more information

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1925. First. Wraps. Very Good. Quarto. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Walkowitz to fellow artist Jean Charlot. ... more information

New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. First Edition. cloth. Very Good. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-3/4") bound in green boards with a green cloth spine and gilt morocco spine label. Copy #7 of 250 copies of this work with each of the 21 pages being an ORIGINAL ETCHING by Wall. SIGNED by Wall and Lynch. Some wear to the binding, contents very nice. ... more information

New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1920. First Edition. cloth. Very Good. Quarto (8" x 11") bound in gray boards with a red cloth spine and an etched title laid down on the front cover. This famous and eloquent eulogy for a dog served as the subject matter for Wall's very first etched book. Copy #53 of only 125 copies designed and printed by Wall with each of the 15 pages being an ORIGINAL ETCHING by Wall. SIGNED by Wall. The front board is pulled away from the inside joint of Wall's crude binding, contents very n... more information

New York: Alden, 1888. First Edition. Dec. cloth. Near Fine. Engravings. 285 pages. ... more information

New York: Knopf, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Photos. ... more information

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1989). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight bumping to lower corners. Near Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Acclaimed author's second book, a collection of stories. ... more information