THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
by WELTY, Eudora
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a mildly darkened, just about Fine dustwrapper. Welty's first novel and second book, issued in an edition of only 3490 copies. A not especially well-made book, not often seen in this condition.
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EUDORA WELTY: WRITERS' REFLECTIONS UPON FIRST READING WELTY
by (WELTY, Eudora) McHANEY, Pearl Amelia (editor)
Athens, GA: Hill Street Press, (1999). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in slipcase, as issued. Bound in green silkish cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine. Published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday. One of 200 numbered copies (there were also 26 lettered copies) SIGNED by the editor and all 22 contributors: Richard Bausch, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Tony Early, Clyde Edgerton, George Garrett, Ellen Gilchrist, Anthony Grooms, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Greg... Read More
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A WRITER'S EYE. COLLECTED BOOK REVIEWS
by WELTY, Eudora
Jackson [MS]: University Press Mississippi, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Edited by Pearl Amelia McHaney.
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THE PONDER HEART
by WELTY, Eudora
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1954). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in just about Fine dustwrapper. Gorgeous copy. Joe Krush. Cloth-backed boards. Dustwrapper and 8 pen-and-ink illustrations by Joe Krush. This comic novella originally ran in THE NEW YORKER a few months prior to book publication. It was later adapted to the stage. Laid in is a receipt for purchase in 2001 for about twice the price we are charging.
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ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS
by WELTY, Eudora
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Some foxing to bulked text edges; tiny tear at head of spine and front panel of dustwrapper. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Welty's memoir, illustrated with black and white photographs.
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THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Bookplate stamped "Discarded" with slight offsetting to the endpaper; perforated stamp to bottom margin of one text page; slight foxing to the front endpaper and a few other pages; rear endpapers with library slip and pocket, also stamped; front hinge cracked and a little loose. Covers are bright with strong gilt, a small white ink symbol on the spine. Easily Very Good or better, despite the library markings. Original... Read More
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) Complaining about the A.S.P.C.A
by WHARTON, Edith
Letter. Normal creases. Near Fine. Four-page letter on both sides of one 9-5/8" x 7-1/2" sheet of Curtis Hotel, Lenox Massachusetts stationery folded in half and addressed to Mrs. Bell and SIGNED as "E. Wharton." Wharton states that she has received a letter from her husband following his talk with Mrs. Bell "& of the more hopeful attitude of the board," adding "I am so afraid of having shown trop de zèle in my long screed to Mr.... Read More
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MADAME DE TREYMES
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Small chip from the margin of one page; small number inkstamp on the front endpaper and first page of text; owner name on front pastedown with some offsetting to the front endpaper. Slightly cocked. Very Good. Alonzo Kimball. Decorated cloth. Printed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press. Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball with two color plates.
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TWELVE POEMS
by WHARTON, Edith
London: The Medici Society, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. About Fine in a close to Fine and scarce dustwrapper with minor browning to the spine and chipping to the spine tips. Blue cloth-backed boards in the original and very scarce dustwrapper with the name and title printed on the front panel and spine along with the remnants of a cellophane dustwrapper, likely not originally issued with the book but which has been on it for a long time. Copy... Read More
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MADAME DE TREYMES
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. Faint dampstain to the upper outer corner of the rear cover and the last 30 pages; light foxing on a few pages. Still Near Fine. Original gilt-decorated and lettered brown cloth. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper with a MANUSCRIPT variant version of the poem Belgium in Wharton's hand: Not with her ruined silver spires, Not with her cities shamed & rent, Perish the imperishable fires... Read More
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE
by WHARTON, Edith
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1973. Hardcover. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Lawrence Beall Smith. Quarto (7-3/4" x 10-5/8") bound with a buckram spine with sides covered in 100% American cotton woven in an allover floral pattern; 360 pages. Introduction by R. W. B. Lewis. Illustrated by Lawrence Beall Smith with 12 full-page illustrations in color and 12 black-and-white in-text drawings. Copy #1770 of 2000 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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CURIOSITIES OF HISTORY: BOSTON SEPTEMBER SEVENTEENTH, 1630-1880
by WHEILDON, William
Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover. Light wear to spine tips; front free endpaper detached. Near Fine. Green cloth, lettered in gilt; 143 pages. Illustrated with a map of Dorchester and a folding facsimile of the first issue of Boston's first newspaper.
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by WHITE, E. B
New York, 20 February 1963. Letter. Faint creases from mailing. Fine. Letter to a Mr. Poland written in Florida on 7" x 10-1/4" THE NEW YORKER stationery. In part: "I am envious of anybody who is in Maine today, where chill blustery weather blends with the scenery. Down here on Fiddler Bayou it just seems out of place and uncomfortable. All the cocoanut palms bit the dust last December in the great freeze, and many other trees were... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
by WHITE, E. B
New York, 18 September 1964. Letter. Faint creases from mailing. Fine. Fine letter to Jon Carroll of 189 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry on 7" x 10-1/4" THE NEW YORKER stationery. In full: "There are all kinds of stories. Sometimes a writer, when he creates a character, draws on people he knows. Sometimes it is pure invention. Usually, if a real person serves as the basis for a fictional character, the writer alters him somewhat, to suit his scheme... Read More
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THE FAREWELL SYMPHONY
by WHITE, Edmund
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with review slip and flyer laid in of the final volume of White's autobiographical trilogy.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Very light rubbing to the heel of the spine. Fine in a Fine slipcase. John Nash. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter gold-stamped calfskin and green boards decorated with a morning glory pattern repeated on the slipcase. Illustrated by John Nash with 16 full-page colored line drawings and 16 part-page drawings in black and white. Copy #33 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Very mild rubbing to spine tips. Fine in glassine and a Very Good slipcase. John Nash. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter gold-stamped calfskin and green boards decorated with a morning glory pattern repeated on the slipcase. Illustrated by John Nash with 16 full-page colored line drawings and 16 part-page drawings in black and white. Copy #562 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Two tiny rubbed spots at the head of the spine. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. John Nash. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter gold-stamped calfskin and green boards decorated with a morning glory pattern repeated on the slipcase. Illustrated by John Nash with 16 full-page colored line drawings and 16 part-page drawings in black and white. Copy #1110 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in just about Fine slipcase. John Nash. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter gold-stamped calfskin and green boards decorated with a morning glory pattern repeated on the slipcase. Illustrated by John Nash with 16 full-page colored line drawings and 16 part-page drawings in black and white. Of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this is Out-of-Series and not numbered, acquired directly from the publisher and never... Read More
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
by WHITE, Gilbert
Ipswich: Limited Editions Club, 1972. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. John Nash. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-3/4") bound in quarter gold-stamped calfskin and green boards decorated with a morning glory pattern repeated on the slipcase. Illustrated by John Nash with 16 full-page colored line drawings and 16 part-page drawings in black and white. Copy #887 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.
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A CROW'S STORY OF DEER (Number 26 of the YES! CAPRA CHAPBOOK SERIES)
by WHITE, Jim
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Pictorial boards. Copy #42 of 75 numbered and SIGNED copies with an additional small drawing by the author. Jim White is a non-Indian who was invited to live with the Navajo with whom he lived for years before being made a member of Turtle Island. The poems here have Native American subjects.
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PORTRAIT OF WALT WHITMAN
by [WHITMAN, Walt] JOHNSON, Thomas
1891. First Edition. Framed Etching. Some age discoloration on the mat not extending to the print. A Fine example of this superb and now uncommon image. Fine Drypoint Proof Etching by Thomas Johnson, SIGNED by Johnson in pencil, after a photograph by George Cox of Walt Whitman head and shoulders wearing his wide-brimmed hat, seated, with a flowing beard, turned towards the artist. Matted and framed to an overall size of 15-1/2" x 18" with the actual image... Read More
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Revenge and Requital. A Tale of a Murderer Escaped" in THE UNITED STATES MAGAZINE AND DEMOCRATIC REVIEW. Volume XVII, Nos. 85-87
by (WHITMAN, Walt; WHITTIER, John Greenleaf; et. al.)
New York: J. L. O'Sullivan and O. C. Gardiner, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover. Moderate to heavy foxing and staining. Quite uncommon in the original wraps. Very Good. Three issues of this important American magazine in their original wraps, including the July-August Double Number with a story by Walt Whitman (here referred to as Walter Whitman) titled "Revenge and Requital. A Tale of a Murderer Escaped." Illustrated with portraits including Andrew Jackson.
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CALAMUS. A SERIES OF LETTERS WRITTEN DURING THE YEARS 1868-1880 BY WALT WHITMAN TO A YOUNG FRIEND (PETER DOYLE)
by WHITMAN, Walt
Boston: Laurens Maynard, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. Pages a little toned, frontispiece and facsimile letter browned, as nearly always the case. Original green cloth. Edited with an introduction by Richard Maurice Bucke, one of Whitman's literary executors. BAL 21446: Issue A; Meyerson A14.I.b1. Illustrated with a portrait of Whitman with Doyle and a facsimile of a Whitman letter. This book marks the first separate publication (outside of LEAVES OF GRASS) of Whitman's Calamus poems devoted to male romantic... Read More
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THE COMPLETE WRITINGS OF WALT WHITMAN
by WHITMAN, Walt
New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, (1902). First Edition. Hardcover. Despite the missing first volume, this is an attractive set, the spines evenly sunned to a pleasant brown with only mild wear and rubbing. Very Good to Near Fine. The Collector's Camden Edition consisting of 9 (of 10) volumes in publisher's 3/4 dark green morocco leather with gilt-lettered and decorated spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Copy #216 of 300 "Signed" sets with... Read More
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