THE ZOOLAND POSTCARD PAINTING BOOK
by Wain, Louis
Dundee and London: Valentine & Sons, Ltd, 1908. Very good.. First edition of this unusual Louis Wain title, a set of 10 postcards to be colored by a child - remarkably unused. Best known for his art of Catland, Louis Wain was far more than just an artist of felines. THE ZOOLAND POSTCARD PAINTING BOOK finds Wain applying his gently satyrical humanized style to elephants, bears, monkeys, hippos, and to big cats: a lion and a pair of... Read More
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IN CATLAND
by Wain, Louis
London: John F. Shaw, 1915. Near fine.. A remarkably beautiful copy of this rare Wain title. Known as "The Edwardian Cat Artist That Went Mad," Wain was once "the most famous cat artist on earth" (Haining). His work in conceiving an entire Catland inspired the creators of Felix the Cat and even Mickey Mouse; Haining notes that Wain also "played a major part in making the cat the most popular of all domestic pets." 9.5'' x 7''. Original... Read More
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PUGILISTICA JUDAICA
by Wakefield, D. R.
(Goole, East Yorkshire): The Chevington Press, 2006. First edition. Fine in original clamshell.. Striking limited edition artist's book that contrasts the violent world of prize fighting with the measured, clean format of a fine press book. Pulling from scanty historical sources about the identities of prize fighters in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, D. R. Wakefield presents brief biographical vignettes of 14 Jewish prize fighters during a 55-year period. Through the personal stories of the fighters,... Read More
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THE ANTILLES: Fragments of Epic Memory
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Walcott's lecture, delivered on the occasion of his receipt of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1992. 7.5'' x 5''. Original gilt-stamped green boards. In original unclipped ($7.00) pictorial dust jacket with art by Walcott. Unpaginated. Inscribed by Walcott on half-title page. Minor wear to jacket, small spot to rear endpaper.
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OMEROS
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Garrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First printing. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Walcott's "epic of the dispossessed" (Hamner) - published just two years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. OMEROS is a seven-part epic of Walcott's "West Indian vision of New World experience" (Hamner, 1) that builds on classical models - especially Homer (as referenced in the poem title). The yearning for home, a central theme of THE ILIAD, THE ODYSSEY,... Read More
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THE GULF
by Walcott, Derek
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. Signed first US edition of this collection of the Nobel Prize-winner's poetry, laden with imagery of the Caribbean and reflections on identity and isolation. 8.25'' x 5.5'. Original blue cloth, blind-stamped front board, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($5.50) color pictorial jacket designed by Joseph Durante. Green endpapers. Machine deckle fore edge. xii, 112 pages. Signed by Walcott on front fly leaf.... Read More
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THEY CAME FROM THE BRONX
by Waldman, Neil
Honesdale, Pennsylvania: Boyds Mills Press, 2001. First edition. Fine in very good plus plus dust jacket.. Signed early printing of this heartwarming story based on the actual events surrounding the reintroduction of bison into Oklahoma, thanks to the Bronx Zoo. Neil Waldman's illustration style ranges from realistic to bordering on Peter Maxian psychadelia. He has illustrated the covers of seven Newbery Award winners, including Gary Paulsen's HATCHET. 10.5'' x 12''. Original color pictorial borads. Original unclipped ($16.95) color... Read More
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TOLD BY THE SANDMAN
by Walker, Abbie Phillips; Chase, Rhoda Campbell
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Near fine in very good jacket.. WWI-era bedtime book with a collection of new fairy tales in Walker's "Sandman" series - in the scarce original dust jacket. 7'' x 4.75''. Original blue cloth with pictorial paste-on. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Chase in black and white. 97, [1] pages. Jacket with light soil, a few short closed tears, one small chip to rear panel. Book with small spot of... Read More
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TO HELL WITH DYING
by Walker, Alice; Deeter, Catherine
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988. Near fine near fine jacket.. Signed second printing of this tender take on love and mortality by the Pulitzer Prize winner - her first of three collaborations with Deeter. Originally published as a short story that was soon after chosen by Langston Hughes for inclusion in THE BEST SHORT STORIES BY NEGRO WRITERS: AN ANTHOLOGY FROM 1899 TO THE PRESENT (1967). 10'' x 10.5''. Original quarter maroon cloth, maroon paper boards, lettered... Read More
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REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS AND OTHER POEMS
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First edition of Walker's second verse collection, a National Book Awards finalist for 1974 and winner of the Lillian Smith Award. An early work by one of the great storytellers of the second half of the 20th century, who won both the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for THE COLOR PURPLE. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original full blue cloth. In original unclipped... Read More
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FINDING THE GREEN STONE
by Walker, Alice; Deeter, Catherine
San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this allegorical children's story by the Pulitzer Prize winner, with stunning illustrations by regular collaborator Deeter. 11'' x 9''. Original quarter green cloth over purple paper boards. In original unclipped ($16.95) color pictorial jacket. Green endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. [40 pages]. Jacket with trace shelfwear and rubbing. Book with bumping to corners, front board gently bowed, faint toning... Read More
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THE TEMPLE OF MY FAMILIAR
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this epic novel of love and relationships across centuries, including appearances of two characters from THE COLOR PURPLE. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter teal cloth, tan paper boards, gilt-lettered spine and gilt-stamped lion ornament on front board. In original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Lambert Davis. [10], 416, [4] pages. Signed by Walker on the title page.... Read More
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THE COLOR PURPLE
by Walker, Alice
(London): The Women's Press, 1986. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First UK edition of Alice Walker's breakaway success, a book centered around the experience of African-American women in the rural South. THE COLOR PURPLE is an epistolary novel about an African-American family in Georgia, following the fate of two sisters through their letters to each other. The book is particularly famous for the beauty of its language, which Walker shapes with astonishing perfection. Walker... Read More
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POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
by Walker, Alice
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. About fine in fine jacket.. Signed first printing of this novel exploring many of the same themes as THE COLOR PURPLE, especially love after trauma and universal sisterhood. 9.25'' x 5.25''. Original quarter orange cloth, grey paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($19.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Vaughn Andrews with image by David Shannon. Tan endpapers, fore-edge machine deckle. xii, 286 pages. Signed by Walker on title page. Faintest... Read More
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THE RIVER NIGER
by Walker, Joseph A.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1973. First edition. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this Tony Award-winning play, the story of the conflicts within a Black family that are exposed when the son returns home from the military. 8'' x 5.25''. Original mustard yellow boards. Original unclipped ($7.95) black-and-white pictorial dust jacket. 178 pages. Jacket with some edgewear, a couple tiny closed tears. Binding with a bit of bumping to corners and spine... Read More
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LADY HOLLYHOCK AND HER FRIENDS
by Walker, Margaret Coulson; Hunt, Mary Isabel
New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1906. First edition. Very good plus.. Unusually charming (and sometimes slightly surreal) book of ideas for toys made from everyday objects and food, accompanied by stories and poems. Features ideas for dolls made out of all sorts of fruits, vegetables, fibers, and household objects, as well as animal favorites like the Lemon Pig. Some of the dolls are racial caricatures with accompanying insensitive terminology. Overall, a clever production and interesting Progressive... Read More
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FOR NOTHING CHANGES..
by Walker, Todd
Press of Todd Walker, 1976. First edition. Near fine.. A small artist's book of delicately erotic photography accompanied by a 17th century text interwoven with modern news reports. Featuring passages from Robert Burton's 1652 ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY. 6'' x 5''. Original pictorial wrappers, perfect-bound. 22 color photographic illustrations. [24] leaves, French-fold. Light soil to lower front wrapper, mild wear to corners. Light foxing to page edges. Else sharp and vibrant.
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SIGNIFYING RAPPERS
by Wallace, David Foster; Costello, Mark
New York: Ecco, 1990. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this early scholarly consideration of rap, and Wallace's book immediately preceding his classic INFINITE JEST. Written with his friend (the now-novelist Mark Costello) with whom he was living in Boston at the time, SIGNIFYING RAP appeared between the rather unsuccessful GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR and Wallace's epic INFINITE JEST. Alternating chapters like MCs passing the mic, the authors proceed in a rather Lester Bangs-ian manner (indeed,... Read More
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GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR: Stories
by Wallace, David Foster
New York, London: W.W. Norton Company, 1989. Very good plus to near fine.. Uncorrected proof for the first edition of Wallace's acclaimed second book and first collection of short stories. At the time of GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR's publication, THE NEW YORK TIMES praised Wallace as "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent, one unafraid to tackle subjects large and small. Ever willing to experiment, he lays his artistic self on the line with his incendiary use of... Read More
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INFINITE JEST
by Wallace, David Foster
Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1996. First edition. Near fine.. Signed advance "Special Galleys" (stated) of Wallace's generation-defining magnum opus about a movie so funny it addicts its watchers. Advance promotional issue (in an unstated edition, reportedly 1000 copies) of one of the most beloved and acclaimed cult novels of the last thirty years. Equal parts Delillo and Pynchon, a modern classic - especially scarce with the publisher's response card. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. Signed... Read More
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GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR: Stories
by Wallace, David Foster
New York, London: W.W. Norton Company, 1989. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Wallace's second book and first collection of short stories. At the time of GIRL WITH THE CURIOUS HAIR's publication, THE NEW YORK TIMES praised Wallace as "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent, one unafraid to tackle subjects large and small. Ever willing to experiment, he lays his artistic self on the line with his incendiary use of language,... Read More
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A NEW LOOK OF COLOR
by DURON PAINTS AND WALLCOVERINGS
n.p.: Duron Paints and Wallcoverings, 1970. First Edition. Very good.. Seventies era color catalog for home decorating, divided into four sections, natural, traditional, contemporary and futuristic, curated by Duron's "color consultant" Connie Bledsoe as a guide to selecting complementary colors, with palettes in warm, cool and contrasting colors. Interiors depicted in illustrations are typically 1970s, from the macrame-accented "Naturalistic" to italian postmodern "futuristic." An attractive catalog. Wraps. 15.5" x 11.25" approx. wire-bound in white plastic-coated wraps. Introductory text... Read More
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SOME TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE COMMERCIAL AIRSHIP
by Wallis, B.N. [Barnes Wallis]
(London): (Lloyd's Register of Shipping), 1926. Very good plus.. Rare presentation copy of this paper by the renowned airship engineer and inventor of the bouncing bomb, signed "with the Author's Love to his Assistant" - his wife and longtime airship confidante Mary (Bloxham) Wallis. Though later generations know him best for inventing the "bouncing bomb" used against German dams in World War II, in the 1920s Barnes Wallis's heart still belonged to Rigid Airships. When he was not... Read More
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THE BOOK OF FABLES, IN PROSE AND VERSE
by [Wallin, S.]
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 1856. Very good.. First edition of this collection of moral poems and prose, with numerous woodcuts. This assemblage of fables is part of the fourth series of REDFIELD'S TOY BOOKS, the largest and most expensive series - each title cost a whopping six cents. 6.25'' x 4''. Original green pictorial wrapper, saddle-stitched. Numerous woodcuts throughout. 24 pages, ads to rear wrapper. Wrapper with a bit of edgewear, a touch of soil. Leaves with... Read More
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COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD AND FEET, IN ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES
by [Wallin, S.]
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 1856. Very good.. First edition of this informational chapbook of various examples of hats and shoes from history and around the world. This fashion-conscious chapbook compares the Chinese practice of foot-binding to "the tight-lacing of the ladies of the present age," noting the historical "inconveniences and torments which have been endured for fashion's sake." 6'' x 4''. Original pictorial wrappers, saddle-stitched. Numerous woodcuts throughout. 24 pages with ads to rear wrapper.
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