BYE-BYE BREVOORT
by Welty, Eudora
Jackson, MS: Palaemon press for New Stage Theatre, 1980. Fine.. Signed limited first edition of Welty's one-act farce produced as part of the off-Broadway production "The Littlest Revue" at New York's Phoenix Theatre in 1956. 10'' x 6.25''. Original red marbled boards with paper title label. 20 pages. Edition of 400 unnumbered copies bound in French marbled paper boards. Signed by Welty at colophon.
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MORGANA: Two Stories From 'The Golden Apples'
by Welty, Eudora; Wolfe, Mildred Nungester
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. First printing. Fine in near fine slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of Welty's stories "June Recital" and Moon Lake," originally collected in THE GOLDEN APPLES, here illustrated by Wolfe and followed by the author's new afterword. 10.75'' x 7.25''. Original quarter blue cloth with gilt-lettered cream boards. Cream endpapers. In original blue cloth slipcase. Black and white illustrations by Wolfe. Edition of 250 signed and numbered copies; this copy no. 169,... Read More
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A CURTAIN OF GREEN
by Welty, Eudora
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. First edition (stated). Near fine in very good jacket.. First printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first collection of short stories, introduced by Katherine Anne Porter. A CURTAIN OF GREEN includes Welty's first-published and most famous story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," as well as the much-anthologized "A Worn Path" and fifteen other stories "where external act and the internal voiceless life of the imagination almost meet and mingle on... Read More
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THE EYE OF THE STORY
by Welty, Eudora
New York: Random House, 1977. Fine.. Signed limited first edition of Welty's reviews and critical essays on Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and others, together with a selection of personal and occasional nonfiction pieces. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original quarter burgundy cloth with gilt-stamped speckled beige boards. In original beige slipcase. 355, [3] pages. Edition of 300 specially printed and bound copies. Signed by Welty at colophon. Only light traces of soil to slipcase.
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THE COLLECTED STORIES OF EUDORA WELTY
by Welty, Eudora
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Association copy (later printing) of this collection of short stories spanning the most productive portion of Eudora Welty's long career, inscribed to Frank Hodsoll, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Hodsell and Welty worked for years together at the NEA. Welty was already on the National Council on the Arts (Welty had been appointed by President Nixon in 1972)when Hodsoll was... Read More
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STAR OF THE UNBORN
by Werfel, Franz
New York: The Viking Press, 1946. First printing. Very good plus in good plus jacket.. Scarce first US edition of Werfel's work of H.G. Wellsian science fiction updated by "Einstein and Catholicism" (Kahn) - in the rare dust jacket. Werfel's narrator first dies, then makes haste to California-Lemuria some hundred thousand years later. Inventive and unpredictable, concerned with time and timelessness, etiquette and mysticism, astral flight and angelology, committee meetings of talking dogs and the mass exodus of... Read More
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TWENTY-SIX STARLINGS WILL FLY THROUGH YOUR MIND
by Wersba, Barbara; Palladini, David
(New York): Harper & Row, 1980. First printing. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of Wersba's dreamy alphabet-themed bedtime book, signed by illustrator David Palladini. 9.5'' x 8.25''. Original black boards with red cloth spine. In original unclipped ($8.95) pictorial dust jacket. Teal endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Palladini. Unpaginated. Signed by Palladini on title page. Small price sticker shadow to front jacket flap, minor edgewear.
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WHERE EVIL SLEEPS
by Wesley, Valerie Wilson
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1996. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed first printing of the story of a detective, Tamara Hayle, who is seeking some rest and relaxation on a Jamaican vacation - until her new friends turn out to be more dangerous than she thought. 9'' x 5.75''. Original two-tone boards. Original unclipped ($21.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 208 pages. Signed by Wesley to first blank. Jacket with mild edgewear. Binding with a... Read More
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THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
by Westall, Richard
London: J. Booker; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; et al., 1819. Near fine.. Beautiful Regency-era set of the classic compendium of Middle Eastern folktales with illustrations by Queen Victoria's (future) drawing master. In the framing device of ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS, Sharazade delays her own execution by captivating her captor-king with stories. The compilation of Islamic Golden Age folktales would gain popularity in Europe after Orientalist Antoine Gallard translated the work into his native French in 1704. English... Read More
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TOUCHING DARKNESS: Midnighters Vol. 2
by Westerfeld, Scott
(New York): Eos / HarperCollins, 2004. First printing. Fine in fine jacket.. Lovely first edition of the second volume in Westerfeld's Midnighters trilogy, a high point of 2000s young adult literature and a worthy addition to the psychic teens canon. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original tan and burgundy boards. In original pictorial dust jacket by Kamil Vojnar. 330 pages. Minor edgewear to boards.
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THE GODS ARRIVE
by Wharton, Edith
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First printing of Wharton's continuation of the story begun in HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED - a three-sided love story between an unfortunately married woman, her fortunately widowed lover, and his unwritten book. 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. 431, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, slight spine lean. Minor scuffing and a few small closed... Read More
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WHATLEY'S QUEST : An Alphabet Adventure
by Whatley, Bruce; Smith, Rosie
(USA): HarperCollins, 1994. Fine.. Inscribed first US edition of this Australian alphabet puzzle book with lush, expressive '90s illustrations. 12'' x 9.25''. Original color pictorial boards. In original unclipped ($14.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Whatley throughout. [48] pages. Inscribed by Whatley on copyright page in blue ink: "Best wishes / Bruce Whatley.
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THE WORLD OF THE NURSERY
by White, Colin
New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc, 1984. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. First printing of White's illustrated survey of the Victorian and early 20th century nursery's visual language and material culture. 11'' x 8.25''. Original orange cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($29.95) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color and black and white. 224 pages. Light edgewear to boards and jacket.
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
by Whitehead, Colson
New York: Doubleday, 2016. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of Whitehead's sixth novel, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter ivory cloth with black boards. In original unclipped ($26.95) dust jacket. 306 pages. Inscribed by Whitehead on publisher's tipped in page: "To Anne and Roger! / Thanks for caring! / Colson Whitehead!" Previous owner's penned name to front free endpapers. Slight lean.... Read More
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EDMUND DULAC
by White, Colin; [Dulac, Edmund]
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First printing of White's richly illustrated study of the great Golden Age illustrator. 11'' x 8.25''. Original blue cloth. In original unclipped ($25.00/$22.50) dust jacket. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. 205, [3] pages. Small adhesions from jacket verso along top edge of front board. Slight creasing to front panel, flaps lightly toned.
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THE FLIP-FLOP SHOW
by White, Constance
Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Company, 1909. Very good.. First edition of this charming story of the fantastic circus assembled by Jerry the Clown. With 14 fine, bold full page color illustrations Constance White in a Denslow-ian style. A nice example of an early 20th century American picture book. 13.5'' x 10.25''. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Illustrated in color. [32] pages on coated paper. Boards with some wear and soil. Leaves with scattered faint finger soil to margins.... Read More
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STUART LITTLE
by White, E.B.; Williams, Garth
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First printing. Fine in very good jacket.. First edition of White's first book for children, sold with an original pen-and-ink drawing by Garth Williams that appears on page 24 of the book. White's Stuart Little, like Thumbelina, is born to standard-sized human parents and takes his entitled place within his human family by right and without question, but suffers many tests and challenges as he makes his way in the world and... Read More
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THE POINTS OF MY COMPASS
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper & Row, 1962. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First edition of this collection of dispatches to THE NEW YORKER by the author of CHARLOTTE'S WEB and STUART LITTLE. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Quarter blind-stamped black cloth, brown paper boards, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($4.00) color pictorial jacket. Machine deckle fore edge. xiv, 240 pages. Previous owner name penciled to front fly leaf. Jacket with some edgewear, chipping at spine head, light... Read More
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ONE MAN'S MEAT
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942. First edition (stated). Fine in very good jacket.. First edition of one of White's greatest and most important books, including much of White's best essays like "Once More to the Lake." "No one has written more consistently graceful, thoughtful essays in twentieth-century American language than White" (Phillip Lopate, quoted in Root 2) ONE MAN'S MEAT was the book that caused HERALD TRIBUTE reviewer Irwin Edman to famously declare White, "one of our... Read More
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STUART LITTLE
by White, E.B.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1945. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of White's first book for children, a charming classic of the small but robust Mouse Adventure genre. White's Stuart Little, like Thumbelina, is born to standard-sized human parents and takes his entitled place within his human family by right and without question, but suffers many tests and challenges as he makes his way in the world and works to thwart the... Read More
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PETER PAN'S ABC
by White, Flora; [Barrie, J.M.]
New York: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913. Near fine.. First US edition of this lovely illustrated alphabet adapted (uncredited) from Barrie, with a brief synopsis of the full story followed by 26 related alphabet verses. 9'' x 7''. Original green cloth spine, brown and lavender pictorial boards with pictorial paste-on. Unpaginated. Illustrated with 25 color plates by White. Contemporary visiting card with gift inscription mounted to front pastedown.
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KIRBY'S DERBY
by White, George; O'Malley, Jason; Foster, Bruce
Mason, OH: Jumping Jack Press, 2008. First printing. Fine.. First edition of this pop-up chronicle of a whimsical soapbox derby with animal racers. 6.25'' x 6.25''. Original color pictorial boards. No jacket as issued. Illustrated in color. [12] pages with pop-up elements to each opening. Sharp and bright.
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SIBERIAN LIGHT
by White, Robin
(New York): Delacorte, 1997. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. Signed first printing White's best-known novel, a murder mystery set in Siberia. 9.25'' x 6''. Original quarter black with blue paper boards. In original unclipped ($23.95) color pictorial dust jacket designed by Craig DeCamps + C. Phair Design. 441, [1] pages. Signed by White on half title. Mild curling/edgewear to jacket; "autographed copy" sticker to front panel; price sticker to rear. Touch of soil... Read More
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WHAT HAPPENED TO SHERLOCK HOLMES
by White/Prince, Terence
(Marina del rey, California): (Seagull Publishing Company), 1984. Near fine.. Inscribed first edition of this scarce Sherlockian pastiche set partially in New Zealand - the copy of Andrew Peck, BSI, with an autograph letter signed by the author to him. 7.75'' x 5.25''. Original black paper boards lettered in silver. In original unclipped ($9.95) black-and-white pictorial dust jacket. 102 pages. Inscribed by White/Prince on verso of half title in black ink: "To Andrew Jay Peck / Terence White/Prince... Read More
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LOVED HELEN
by White, T. H.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1929. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Scarce first edition of T. H. White's first work, a collection of poems on topics both humble and legendary, including Norse mythology. Nearly ten years before his career-making ONCE AND FUTURE KING, T. H. White was a Stowe schoolmaster "trying to establish a literary reputation with books written on vacation" (SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER). This collection of poetry was his first publication and the opening gambit... Read More
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