Titles starting with W from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1972. Second Edition.. Gray cloth (hardcover); 420pp. Fine copy; no jacket, as issued. The standard Auden bibliography. ... more information

New York: Forum Gallery, 2001. First printing.. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover, as issued); (32pp). 12 works reproduced, in color. Fine. ... more information

New York: The Fellowship of Reconciliation. First Edition.. Staple-bound pamphlet; original printed wrappers; 32pp. Covers faded at margins; internally fresh; Very Good. Uncommon. ... more information

New York: International Publishers, 1941. Staple-bound pamphlet; 32pp. Light foxing to cover and pages, else near fine. 12mo. ... more information

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. First Edition.. Cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 389pp; illus; appendices. As-new copy in unworn jacket. ... more information

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1932. First American edition.. Quarto. Tan cloth (hardcover); 409pp. Very good + in very good dustjacket, mild wear to board edges, still a VG or better copy in somewhat edgeworn and dusty jacket. ... more information

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932. First Edition.. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 359pp. Clean, straight copy in slightly worn jacket with spots of soil to rear panel; owner's name in ink on front panel; Very Good overall. Nice copy of the somehwat uncommon first edition. ... more information

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition.. Original cloth; 188pp. Tasteful custom bookplate of "Thelma and Bob" inside front cover, spine lightly sunned; a tight, clean, solid copy, Very Good or better, lacking the scarce jacket. Quintessentially bleak novel of the Great Depression, written by a West Virginia drifter who famously scribbled his story down on scrap paper scrounged on the streets, in boxcars, and in hobo jungles. The novel was highly praised upon publication, but K... more information

New York: Random House, 1935. First Thus.. Tan linen boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 74pp. Tight, unmarked copy in unclipped jacket with 3/4" square chip missing to leading edge, minor chips to spine extremities. Uncommon Odets title, issued the same year as "Three Plays" which rendered "Two Plays" somewhat redundant. ... more information

San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977. First edition.. Original pictorial wrappers; 48pp. Mild dusting to covers, else fine. ... more information

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1979. Later Printing.. Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 192pp; 106 b/w illus. Negligible dusting to covers, else a tight, unmarked, Near Fine copy. Quarto. ... more information

Boston: Birkhauser, 2007. First Edition.. Octavo. Printed boards (hardcover), 323pp. New. ... more information

London: Hertford House, 1956. First Edition.. Octavo. Red cloth (hardcover); 360pp + 120pp plates. A thorough and well-illustrated reference. A clean, unmarked copy in the original cloth. ... more information

Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1976. First Edition.. Brown cloth boards (hardcover); dustjacket; 160pp. Clean, tight and unmarked copy in unworn jacket, Near-new. ... more information

Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1992. First Edition.. Red cloth boards (hardcover); 154pp. No jacket, as issued. A fine, unread copy. ... more information

Philadelphia: [by the Fellowship], 1894. 40 individual issues in original wrappers. Each issue octavo; printed self-wraps; pagination varies from 2 to 24 pages per issue. Occasional marginal chipping, but generally Very Good to Near Fine. Forty issues of this ephemeral Whitman newsletter, issued under the direction of Whitman's chief disciple and literary executor Horace Traubel (1858-1919). Traubel was a Marxian socialist and a member of the Rose Valley Movement, a utopian community in South... more information

Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1974. First Edition.. Near Fine. Gray cloth; 238pp. Clean, tight, unmarked copy, fine, in barely worn dustjacket. ... more information

Washington D.C: Walter Reed Memorial Association, 1904. First printing.. Octavo. Staple-bound pamphlet; 11pp. Creases and brief tears into upper margin; light soil; chipping to upper edge of final leaf. Biographical sketch, outlining Reed's career, especially his work with yellow fever, and concluding by requesting a monument to Walter Reed in Washington, D.C. ... more information

University, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 1977. First Edition.. Red cloth; illus.; 402pp. Corners of boards gently bumped, else a clean, bright and tight copy. Dustjacket shows very light wear to extremities. ... more information

Munich: Prestel, 1955. Yellow cloth; illus.; 266pp. Minor wear to extremities, spine faded, edges of boards soiled, endpapers slightly sunned, else an unmarked and tight copy with bright plates. 12mo. ... more information