WEIRD PARENTS
by Wood, Audrey
New York: Dial Books for Young Readers, 1990. Fine in near fine dust jacket.. Signed second printing of this story of a boy whose parents are very different from those of his friends, and how he learns that being weird is cool - with original drawing. Wife and husband team Audrey and Dan Wood are responsible for some of the most recognizable picture books of the 80s and 90s. They earned the Caldecott Medal in 1986, and make... Read More
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JUBAL'S WISH
by Wood, Audrey; Wood, Don
New York: The Blue Sky Press, 2000. First edition. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of the story of Jubal, the optimistic young bullfrog, as he sets out to spread joy among his sometimes-reluctant animal friends - with original drawing of the titular frog. Wife and husband team Audrey and Dan Wood are responsible for some of the most recognizable picture books of the 80s and 90s. They earned the Caldecott Medal in 1986,... Read More
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BAY AREA HOUSES
by Woodbridge, Sally; Gebhard, David; Meadors, Randolph; Campbell, Floyd; Baer, Morley; Sturtevant, Roger
New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. First edition. Very good plus in very good dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this compendium of San Francisco homes, from the classic designs of the late 19th century to boundary-pushing mid-century modern structures. 11'' x 8.5''. Original coarse light brown cloth boards with brown stamping. Original price-clipped yellow and black pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. 330 pages, including index. Inscribed by Sally Woodbridge to title page "for André... Read More
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THE MAN WHO HATED SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
by Wood, James Playsted
(New York): (Pantheon Books), 1965. First printing. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.. First edition of Wood's engaging illustrated biography of Doyle for younger readers. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth stamped in black. In original unclipped ($3.75) pictorial dust jacket. Black-and-white illustrations by Richard M. Powers. 180 pages. This copy from the library of noted Sherlockian, BSI member since 1973, and retired US magistrate judge Andrew Peck. Minor scuffing to jacket at extremities, slight soil... Read More
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MRS. POLLY
by Wood, Lawson
London: F. Warne & Co, 1920. Very good.. Striking bird picture book by the early 20th-century illustrator known for his animal art. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated by Wood in full color on almost every page. Spine a bit rough.
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TOM WOOD: PEOPLE
by Wood, Tom; Zander, Thomas; Kisters, Jürgen
Köln (Cologne): Wienand, 1999. Fine in fine jacket.. Signed first edition of this eye-catching collection of photographs taken in Liverpool by the Irish-born street photographer, selected by Wood from his vast archive of negatives. In addition to selecting the images, Wood also "collaborated on the visual and intellectual sequence of the photographs" for this bright and glossy bilingual photobook, which also contains several essays, both biographical and analytical. 12.5'' x 9.5''. Original blue paper boards, white-lettered front board... Read More
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TOM WOOD: Photie Man
by Wood, Tom; Timoney, Pádraig
Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2005. Near fine.. First edition of this exhibition catalog showcasing the dynamic work of Irish photographer Tom Wood - featuring vibrant, full-page spreads. 11'' x 8.5''. In original brown pictorial wrappers. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated throughout in color and black-and-white. Unpaginated. Some very light shelfwear and tiny bump to spine. Interior clean and crisp.
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JOHN KEATS
by Woof, Robert; Hebron, Stephen
Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 1995. Near fine.. Original catalogue for an exhibition to mark the bicentenary of John Keats, held by the Wordsworth Trust. 10.5'' x 8''. Original pictorial wrappers. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. 188 pages. Minor edgewear. Price sticker remnant and minor soil to rear cover.
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JACOB'S ROOM
by Woolf, Virginia
Richmond: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. First printing. Very good.. First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, Woolf's first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style. A novel of grief that weaves complex inner lives for its characters, based in part on the death of Woolf's brother. The life of the title character, who died in World War I,... Read More
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THE CAPTAIN'S DEATH BED: And Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First edition. Near fine in very good jacket.. First US printing of this posthumously published selection of Woolf's essays - assembled by Leonard Woolf from her previously uncollected pieces and including the famous "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown." 8'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original price-clipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. i-viii, 248 pages. Trace shelfwear. Jacket spine sunned, minor toning and chipping to jacket... Read More
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
by Woolf, Virginia
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket.. First edition of one of the most influential literary essays of the twentieth century. In 1928, Woolf delivered two lectures about women and fiction at the Cambridge women's colleges Newnham and Girton, lectures which she expanded into A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN the following year. In surveying the careers of novelists like Jane Austen and George Eliot, Woolf... Read More
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NIGHT JOURNEYS
by Wortis, Avi
New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. First edition. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket.. First printing of this historical novel for children, the tale of an orphan boy in Colonial Pennsylvania as he struggles with his duty to his adoptive guardian and his desire to help an indentured servant seek her freedom. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original cloth-backed blue boards. original unclipped ($6.95) color pictorial dust jacket, illustrated by Laszlo Kubinyi. 144 pages. Jacket with light wear,... Read More
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iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon
by Wozniak, Steve
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006. First printing. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this memoir by the Apple co-founder and designer of its very first computers. 9'' x 6''. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped color pictorial jacket (no price, as issued). 314 pages. Inscribed by Wozniak on title page: "To Barton / Woz." Jacket with light rubbing, tiny bit of shelfwear. Book has slight lean. Overall, bright and... Read More
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NEELY JONES: THE MEDUSA POOL
by Wren, M. K.
New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1999. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.. Inscribed first printing of this tense murder mystery, following the only Black woman member of a police department who must contend with the racism of her colleagues while trying to find her boyfriend's killer. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black boards. Original unclipped ($24.95) color pictorial dust jacket. 314 pages. Inscribed by Wren to title page "Especially for Linda." Color pictorial promotional postcard loosely laid in.... Read More
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THE WORLD OF THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS: Poems 1980-1990
by Wright, Charles
New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. First edition. Near fine in near fine jacket.. Inscribed first printing of Wright's decade-spanning collection, from the library of American poet and critic Stanley Plumly, annotated with Plumly's own commentary. 9'' x 6''. Original navy blue cloth with gilt-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($25.00) dust jacket. 231, [1] pages. Inscribed by Wright on front free endpaper: "For Stan from Charles, Warm regards, warm memories." Plumly's marginalia in pencil throughout, with longer notes... Read More
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COUNTRY MUSIC: Selected Early Poems
by Wright, Charles
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1982. First edition. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Scarce first printing of this National Book Award-winning collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. 8.5'' x 6''. Original tan cloth. Brown endpapers. In original unclipped ($15.00) dust jacket with illustration by Morandi. 159, [3] pages. Light creasing to top corner of a few leaves. Light edgewear to jacket, small closed tear at top of front panel, spine sunned. ... Read More
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BUFFALO YOGA
by Wright, Charles
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. Fine in fine jacket.. First edition of this poetry collection by the former Poet Laureate of the United States. 8'' x 5.5''. Original black boards with silver-lettered spine. In original unclipped ($20.00) dust jacket. 76, [4] pages. Only minor edgewear.
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SESTETS
by Wright, Charles
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. Fine.. First paperback edition of the 19th poetry collection by the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winner. 8.25'' x 5.5''. Original black wrappers. 75, [1] pages.
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JOHNSON'S WAX: Administration & Research Center [Cover Title]
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
(Racine, WI): [n.p.], 1950. Near fine.. Midcentury album of original black-and-white exterior and interior photographs of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Johnson Wax Adminstration Building and Research Tower in Racine, Wisconsin, completed in 1939 and 1950 respectively. The S.C. Johnson Administration Building, an open-plan forest of tubular concrete and graceful ovoid desks, is the only Wright-designed corporate headquarters building that remains operational today. Upon its opening, it was praised as one of Wright's greatest buildings, with one journalist wishing... Read More
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THE LONG DREAM
by Wright, Richard
New York: Ace, 1959. Very good plus.. First paperback edition of this novel of the Jim Crow South, chronicling the son of a small-town mortician's the sense of doom and its fruition. 7'' x 4.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers with art by Ron Lesser, K-100, cover price 50c. Blue edges. 351, [1] pages. Fading to edges, moderate edgewear and a bit of rubbing. Firm.
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THORNTON W. BURGESS: A Descriptive Book Bibliography
by Wright, Wayne W.
Sandwich, MA: The Thornton W. Burgess Society, 1979. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket.. First edition of this comprehensive listing of the US editions of Burgess's books, with a non-exhaustive additional chapter on foreign editions and translations. 9'' x 6''. Original gilt-lettered green cloth. In original pale green dust jacket. Black and white illustrations. 150, [10] pages. Minor edgewear, faint toning to jacket.
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THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELLE
by Wroblewski, David
New York: Ecco, 2008. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. First edition of this acclaimed, best-selling debut novel, a rural Wisconsin retelling of HAMLET that went on to be an Oprah selection. 9'' x 6''. Original cream and brown boards. Original unclipped ($25.95) color pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine-deckle. 566 pages.Jacket with light rubbing. Book with minor shelf/reading wear, rear corner a little bumped. Bright and clean overall.
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PAUL WUNDERLICH LITHOGRAPHIES ET PEINTURES
by Wunderlich, Paul; Raddatz, Fritz J.
(Paris): Denoël, 1972. First edition. Fine in very good slipcase.. Deluxe limited edition of Wunderlich's lithographs and paintings from the 1950s through the early 1970s, with a signed and numbered original lithograph as issued and a later signed lithograph additionally laid in. Exquisite album of the German artist's Surrealist-influenced paintings and lithographs, ranging from his characteristic Dali-esque distorted female figures to a series of strange and delicate black and white images reminiscent of Klee. With a perceptive introduction... Read More
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FIESTA EN TASCO
by Wuthenau, Raquel Bevilacqua; Godoy, George
Mexico: Editorial Fotocolor, 1942. Very good in very good jacket.. Limited first edition of this WWII-era Mexican picture book about a celebration in the historic mining town, with side-by-side Spanish and English text. 8.75'' x 6.25''. Original white limp cloth. In original color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. 42 pages. One of only 175 copies. Jacket rather toned with a couple closed tears, one repaired with tape to verso, crease to front flap. Spotting to cloth. Interior... Read More
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SECRET HISTORIES: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature
by Wyatt, David
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. First edition. Fine.. First printing of Wyatt's studies in the American literature of the last century, warmly inscribed to poet Stanley Plumly. Original cream cloth. No jacket, likely as issued. xix, [3], 400 pages. Inscribed by Wyatt on front free endpaper: "To Stan, to the expectation and memory of years of friendship, David." Additionally signed by Wyatt on title page. Minimal edgewear.
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