LIBRARY LIL
by Williams, Suzanne; Kellogg, Steven
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997. First edition. Fine in a fine jacket.. First printing, boldly inscribed by the illustrator with an original drawing (of a book and cat) of this charming color-illustrated library-themed picture book. Kellogg has written and/or illustrated more than one hundred children's books. He is a recipient of the Regina Medal for lifetime contribution to children's literature, and his books have won numerous awards such as the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the... Read More
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
by Williams, Tennessee
(New York): New Directions, 1947. First edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first printing of Williams's most enduring play, a beautiful copy in the iconic Lustig-designed dust jacket. The broken dreams of a Southern belle are dramatized in Williams's best known play, a hit on Broadway with Jessica Tandy and Marlon Brando in the lead roles (both then virtually unknown). After its brilliant run on stage, STREETCAR went through a groundbreaking adaptation into film, keeping... Read More
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions Books, 1955. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Signed first edition of Tennessee Williams's Pulitzer Prize-winning third play, adapted into the 1958 film starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman. Tangled in webs of deceit woven for personal safety and personal gain, the characters of CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF struggle to come to terms with the truth throughout the play. The 1958 film added another layer to the obfuscation of... Read More
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BABY DOLL
by Williams, Tennessee
London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. Near fine.. First UK edition of the script for Tennessee Williams's controversial 1956 film, which the National League of Decency attempted to ban, in beautiful blue goatskin binding by Asprey. The story of BABY DOLL took shape from a pair of Williams's 1946 one-act plays, 27 WAGONS FULL OF COTTON and THE LONG STAY CUT SHORT. Notable for its opposition by the Archbishop of New York despite its Code seal and the popularization... Read More
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FLOWERS OF AUGUST
by Williams, William Carlos; Achepohl, Keith
Iowa City, Iowa: The Windhover Press/ University of Iowa, 1983. First edition thus. Fine.. Limited fine-press edition of this sequence of early poems by Williams, printed on lush handmade paper and illustrated with purple-printed photo-engravings. An introductory note records that these poems first appeared in OTHERS FOR 1919; individual poems from the sequence were later reprinted, but this is the "first reprinting of the complete sequence." 9.5'' x 8''. Original dark green cloth case-binding by Black Oak Bindery,... Read More
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CLOWN TOWN
by Willson, Dixie; Berry, Erick
New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1924. Very good.. First edition of this Jazz Age circus picture book, brightly illustrated in '20s style and in the rare original box. 9'' x 7.5''. Original color pictorial paper boards. In original color paper box. Color pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Berry in black and white and in color. [64] pages. Bookplate depicting a young woman reading to front pastedown. Subtle repairs to book spine and to box joints, with touches of... Read More
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PINKY PUP AND THE EMPTY ELEPHANT
by Willson, Dixie; Erick Berry
Joliet, IL: P.F. Volland, 1928. Near fine in very good box.. First edition thus of these two rare Volland titles, originally issued separately in 1922 and 1923, beautifully illustrated by Erick Berry and in the rare original box. 9.75'' x 8.75''. Original pictorial boards with black cloth spine. In original box. Illustrated by Berry in color and black and white. Light edgewear and soil to boards. Moderate soil and flap repairs to box.
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BIOPHILIA
by Wilson, Edward O.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1984. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this thoughtful exploration of the human relationship to the rest of the living world by the celebrated naturalist and sociobiologist. 9'' x 5.75''. Original quarter blue, off-white cloth, gilt-lettered front board and spine. In original unclipped ($15.00) color pictorial jacket designed by Marianne Perlak. Textured cornflower blue endpapers. [8], 158 pages. Jacket with a bit of edgewear, sunning to spine.... Read More
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PROMETHEAN FIRE: Reflections on the Origin of the Mind
by Wilson, Edward O.; Lumsden, Charles J.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. First printing. Fine in very good plus jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this collaboration between Wilson and Lumsden, exploring how and why the early human mind developed - with warm note by Wilson. Before writing PROMETHEAN FIRE, Wilson and Lumsden previously collaborated on the book GENES, MIND and CULTURE: THE COEVOLUTIONARY PROCESS (1981). 9.25'' x 6''. Original burnt orange cloth, lettered in black to spine. In original unclipped ($17.50) pictorial jacket. With... Read More
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SUCCESS AND DOMINANCE IN ECOSYSTEMS: THE CASE OF THE SOCIAL INSECTS
by Wilson, Edward O; Kinne, Otto
Oldendorf/ Luhe, Germany: Ecology Institute, 1990. First printing. Near fine.. First edition of this sociobiological text by Wilson analyzing the longevity and abundance of "euosocial insects," published as part of the Ecology Institute's Excellence in Ecology series. 9.5'' x 6.5''. Original color typographical paper boards. No dust jacket (as issued). xxii, 104 pages. Touch of edgewear.
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NATURALIST
by Wilson, Edward O.
Washington, D.C.: Island Press / Shearwater Books, 1994. First priting. Fine in about fine jacket.. First edition of this thoughtful and engaging memoir by the celebrated naturalist and father of sociobiology. 9'' x 6''. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt to front board and spine. In original color photographic jacket designed by David Bullen (no price, as issued). Light blue endpapers. xiv, 380 pages. Book with trace shelfwear. Jacket with trace rubbing and edgewear. Fresh.
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JOURNEY TO THE ANTS: A Story of Scientific Exploration
by Wilson, Edward O.; Hölldobler, Bert
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 1994. First printing. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this autobiographical "overview of myrmecology" by the duo behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE ANTS. 9.25'' x 8''. Original green cloth, stamped in black to front board and spine, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial jacket Forest green endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white. [12], 228 pages. Fresh.
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THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE
by Wilson, Edward O.
Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1992. First printing. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning naturalist's exploration of our world's developing biodiversity across the ages. 9.25'' x 6''. Original brown cloth backed in black, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($29.95) color photographic jacket designed by Marianne Perlak. Tan speckled endpapers. Black and white illustrations. [8] 426 pages. Inscribed by Wilson to title page ("For Fernando Vega / with warm regards / Edward O. Wilson.")... Read More
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THIS IS SYLVIA: Her Lives and Loves
by Wilson, Sandy
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1955. Very good plus in near fine jacket.. First edition of Wilson's delightful illustrated pseudo-biography of his cat Sylvia and her rise to fame and fortune in cat show business. 7.75'' x 5''. Original green cloth with feline device stamped in red. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. 125, [1] pages. Illustrated in black and white throughout by Wilson. Slight spine lean. Small closed tears to corners of page 121-125. Moderate edgewear... Read More
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WHEN WORK DISAPPEARS
by Wilson, William Julius
New York: Alfred A. Knopff, 1996. Fine in near fine jacket.. Signed second printing of this landmark sociological exploration of the crippling effects of joblessness in the urban ghettos of America - an inspiration for the second season of THE WIRE. 9'' x 6.25''. Original quarter black cloth, black paper boards, silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($26.00) color typographic jacket designed by Archie Ferguson. With original red belly band. Machine deckle fore edge. xxiv, 322 pages. Inscribed by... Read More
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SERVANTS WITH TORCHES
by Windham, Donald; Cadmus, Paul
(New York): (n.p.), 1955. First printing. Good in very good plus jacket.. Rare limited signed first edition of this story privately printed by the author's partner Sandy Campbell and illustrated with a signed and numbered serigraph by Paul Cadmus. Windham was a close friend of Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams and an acquaintance of E.M. Forster, Joseph Cornell, Gore Vidal, Montgomery Clift, and Paul Cadmus - at whose studio he first met Sandy Campbell - among many other... Read More
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Birthday Card to Amy Winehouse
by [Winehouse, Amy]; Adele; Mark Ronson
n.p.: n.p., 2008. Near fine.. Original birthday card inscribed to Amy Winehouse by her producer Mark Ronson and a then up-and-coming singer, Adele. Though undated, the card is almost certainly from Winehouse's infamous 25th birthday party, where the singer failed to show up. Held on September 14th, 2008 at one of the Winehouse's favorite clubs, Jazz After Dark in Soho, both Ronson (who produced more than half the tracks for BACK TO BLACK) and Adele were in attendance... Read More
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TRUE CRIME
by [Winehouse, Amy]; Arnott, Jake
(London): Sceptre, 2003. First printing. Very good plus.. Amy Winehouse's personal copy of this gritty London novel by one of her father's favorite writers. Winehouse was a known reader; both she and her family commented on this aspect of her personality over the years in interviews. The Amy Winehouse Collection, sold by us in 2025, contained more than 225 volumes from her library that amply demonstrated this. One could easily recognize the teenager who loved Salinger, the nerd... Read More
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TRIAL BALANCES
by Winslow, Ann; Bishop, Elizabeth; Moore, Marianne; Theodore Roethke; Muriel Rukeyser; George Abbe
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. First printing. Very good plus in very good jacket.. First edition of this anthology of 32 young American poets, including three early works by Elizabeth Bishop and an appreciation of their "methodically oblique" qualities by Marianne Moore. Other notable poets selected by Winslow include Theodore Roethke, Muriel Rukeyser, and George Abbe. With critical commentary by Wallace Stevens, Malcolm Cowley, Stanley Kunitz, Louis Untermeyer, Louise Bogan, and others. Scarce in jacket. 8,5'' x... Read More
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PARDONABLE LIES
by Winspear, Jacqueline
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2005. First printing. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of Winspear's third post-World-War-I historical mystery, in which detective Maisie Dobbs searches the spirit world and the mortal plane for a missing soldier. 9'' x 6''. Original quarter navy cloth with blue boards. In original unclipped ($23.00) dust jacket. 342, [2] pages. Very faint spotting to top edge of text block. Light edgewear to jacket, faint vertical crease to front jacket flap.... Read More
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BILLY POPGUN
by Winter, Milo
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. Very good.. First edition of Winter's best and scarcest book, a dreamy American fantasy. A fantasy trip taken by little Billy (who had a pop-gun), this book immediately brings to mind similar books by Maurice Sendak in which little boys navigate fantastical landscapes half a century later, such as WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN. 10.5'' x 8''. Original quarter tan cloth, grey paper boards with... Read More
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BILLY POPGUN
by Winter, Milo
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. First printing. Very good.. First edition of Winter's best and scarcest book, the childhood copy of Arthur Houghton Jr., whose endowment made possible the founding of Harvard's Houghton Library. A fantasy trip taken by little Billy (who had a pop-gun), this book immediately brings to mind similar books by Maurice Sendak in which little boys navigate fantastical landscapes half a century later, such as WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE and... Read More
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GOLEM
by Wisniewski, David; Salsbery, Lee
New York: Clarion Books, 1996. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Wisniewski's Caldecott award-winning interpretation of the classic Jewish legend. Because no one anticipated the possibility of a Caldecott win, GOLEM did not have a large first printing. 11'' x 9''. Original color pictorial paper boards. In original unclipped ($15.95) color pictorial jacket. Grey endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color. Photography of cut-paper illustrations by Lee Salsbery. [32] pages. Jacket with light rubbing,... Read More
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THE WAVE OF THE SEA-WOLF
by Wisniewski, David
New York: Clarion Books, 1994. First edition. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.. Signed first printing of this adventure story drawn from Tlingit myth, the tale of how a princess saves her village - beautifully illustrated with cut paper. Wisniewski and his wife founded a shadow puppet theater in 1980, after he cut his teeth on stage as a clown with Barnum & Bailey. 11'' x 8.75''. Original color pictorial boards. Original unclipped ($16.95) color pictorial... Read More
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DISCIPLE & MASTER
by Witkin, Joel-Peter; Borhan, Pierre
(New York): Fotofolio, 2000. First American edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. First English-language edition of Witkin's presentation of his own work in dialogue with his influences. An illuminating lesson in the history of photography and the conscious receptivity to artistic inspiration, DISCIPLE AND MASTER presents Witkin's own photographs with their direct influences on facing pages, selected and with explanatory text by Witkin himself. His 'masters': Weegee, Jacques Henri Lartique, Lewis Carroll, William Blake, Brassaï, Man Ray, Diane... Read More
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