The Bride Wore Black
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. viii, 312 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering. Good+ with some light staining to fore edge and on pgs. 98 and 99, wear to paste down where jacket flap was once adhered, spine a bit cocked, wear at tips, rear hinge repaired. In Good dust jacket, small damp stain on spine panel, rubbed, creased, and chipped at edges, missing a thin piece along top edge... Read More
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The Bride Wore Black
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940. Advance Reading Copy. Paperback. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Self-bound in the iconic skeleton bride-illustrated dust jacket. Very Good. Wraps worn. Spine creased, somewhat cocked, slight loss at head with a small tear to rear joint. The basis of Fracois Truffaut's 1968 film La Mariee etait en noir. Extremely scarce in this format.
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The Black Curtain
by Woolrich, Cornell
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1941. First Edition. Good/Good. First edition. Bound in publisher's red cloth stamped in white and black. Good, with darkening and a lean to the spine, wear to cloth with light staining from an old-style dust jacket protector (affecting end sheets as well), creases to page corners, slightly exposed hinge at front and rear hinge started. In a rather worn Good unclipped dust jacket with rubbing, edge wear with chipping, tape repair to split... Read More
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Moonshine. Number 7. Spring, 1947
by Woolston, Stanley; Rick Sneary; Len Moffatt, et al.
Bell Gardens, CA: Gardens of the Bell / Published by the Editors for FAPA, 1947. Very Good. Number 7. Spring, 1947. Bound in publisher's original stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and general light general wear. A scifi fanzine published for FAPA.
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Moonshine. Issue Numbers 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 17. (Seven Issues)
by Woolston, Stanley; Rick Sneary; Len Moffatt, et al.
Bell Gardens, CA; Garden Grove, CA, et al.: Published by the Editors for FAPA, 1950. Very Good. #6, January, 1947; #7, Spring, 1947; #8, Fall, 1947; #13, February, 1949; #14; #15, August, 1949; #17, Winter, 1950 (rear cover detached). Bound in publisher's original stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and general light wear. A scifi fanzine published for FAPA.
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Moonshine. Issue Numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 17. (Ten Issues)
by Woolston, Stanley; Rick Sneary; Len Moffatt, et al.
Bell Gardens, CA; Garden Grove, CA, et al.: Published by the Editors for FAPA, 1950. Very Good. #5; #6, January, 1947; #7, Spring, 1947; #8, Fall, 1947; #9, Winter, 1948 (some damage to outer cover at staple); #10, Spring, 1948; #13, February, 1949; #14, 1949; #15, August, 1949; #17, Winter, 1950. Bound in publisher's original stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and general light wear.
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Moonshine. Number 14
by Woolston, Stanley; Rick Sneary; Len Moffatt, et al.
Twin Gardens, CA: Published by the Editors for FAPA, 1949. Very Good. [1949]. Issue #14. Bound in publisher's original stapled wraps. Very Good with toning and general light wear. A scifi fanzine published for FAPA.
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Hope Trueblood
by Worth, Patience; Pearl Lenore Curran; Caspar S. Yost [Editor]
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1918. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. (First printing with title page dated 1918 and "Published, May, 1918" on copyright page.) vi, 363, [1], [6 ads] pp. Bound in publisher's blue ribbed cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy with a few minor spots of foxing to fore edge but bright and clean both inside and outside, in a Fine dust jacket with just a hint of sunning to spine panel. Rare in such... Read More
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Islandia
by Wright, Austin Tappan; Leonard Bacon [Introduction]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc, 1942. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good+. Advance reading copy, issued before the first edition, with publisher's slip laid in and "Sample copy - not for sale" stamped to upper edge of textblock. viii, [2], 1013, [1] pp. Bound in publisher's printed wraps reproducing dust jacket of hardcover edition, map endpapers tipped in at front and rear. Very Good+ with wear to wraps, light soiling to wraps and textblock edges, and crease to... Read More
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Islandia
by Wright, Austin Tappan; Leonard Bacon [Introduction]
New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc, 1942. First Edition. First edition, first printing. vii, (ii), 1013 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with black and gilt lettering, green topstain. Very Good+ with light foxing to cloth and a few tiny holes in cloth along gutter, inscription on verso of front endpaper in a Very Good dust jacket worn along edges, price-clipped. A nice enough copy of the mammoth, posthumously-published utopian novel.
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Translations of the Gospel Back into Tongues
by Wright, C.D.
Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1982. First edition. First edition, cloth issue. Advance reading copy with prospectus and slip from publisher laid. Unpaginated. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt and black stamping. Near Fine with a few small stains to cloth near foot. No jacket, apparently as issued.The third book from the Arkansas-born poet Carolyn Doris Wright (1949-2016). Very uncommon as a hardcover review copy.
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Alla Breve Loving
by Wright, C.D.
Seattle: Mill Mountain Press, 1976. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by C.D. Wright on the title page, inscribed to fellow poet/publisher Douglas Blazek. 30 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps lettered in black. Very Good+ with light fading to spine and top edges, light soiling to wraps. The late Rhode Island poet laureate's rare first book, her MFA thesis at University of Arkansas. She took over the publishing company Lost Roads after the suicide of Frank Stanford.... Read More
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Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter "E
by Wright, Ernest Vincent
Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. 267 pp. Bound in publisher's red cloth with black lettering. Apparently bound without photo frontispiece (a variant?), else Near Fine with a few small stains to back board, former owner's name on front free endpaper. A clean bright copy, sturdily bound. Lacking jacket. A legendary rarity; the warehouse holding copies of this self-published novel without the letter "e" (a lipogram) burned down shortly after publication.
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Entry in an Unknown Hand
by Wright, Franz
Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989. First edition. Fine. First edition, cloth issue. 60, [4] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt; no dust jacket as issued. Trivial rubbing to covers else Fine. The exceedingly scarce hardcover issue of an early collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet. Carnegie Mellon U. Press did not issue many of these alongside the much more common paperback issue.
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The Japanese Print
by Wright, Frank Lloyd
Chicago: The Ralph Fletcher Seymour Co, 1912. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original tan paper-covered boards. Near Fine with light toning to spine, trivial rubbing to extremities, light soiling and several tiny spots, but on the whole a very nice example of this fragile book.
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Tapping the White Cane of Solitude
by Wright, Franz
Oberlin, OH: The Triskelion Press, 1976. First edition. First edition. Signed by Franz Wright twice, one at the rear colophon, and another time on the title page, where it is inscribed to the former owner, a "fellow lunatic." Unpaginated. Stringbound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with toning and light edge wear to wraps. The Pulitzer-winning poet's very first book, published in a limited edition of only 250 copies.
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Our House
by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
New York: Horizon Press, Inc, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 308 pp. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. A Fine copy in a price-clipped, Near Fine dust jacket with a small edge nick. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's third and final wife wrote this memoir.
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Native Son
by Wright, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. xi, 359 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with titles blocked in red and gray on the spine and front board. Near Fine with light rubbing and soiling to covers, and light foxing to endpapers, prelims and terminals. Contents toned. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, moderate edgewear including several tears up to 1 inch, and pencil notation... Read More
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Evolution and the Genetics of Populations: A Treatise in Four Volumes
by Wright, Sewall
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978. First edition. First editions, first printings. Complete in four volumes. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with silver lettering, faint blue topstains. Near Fine with former owner's name on prelims, a Paul Heltne, likely the late professor who obtained a PhD in evolutionary biology from University of Chicago in 1970; text otherwise free of markings. In Near Fine dust jackets, light wear, a little sunning to spines of vols. 1 & 2, toning to... Read More
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The Lane of Eternal Stability
by Wu, K. C.
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, 1962. First American Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed by K.C. Wu on the half title page and inscribed "With best wishes." 479 pp. Bound in publisher's orange paper-covered boards over yellow spine cloth lettered in orange, cartographic endpapers. Near Fine with light wear, in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with edgewear, light soiling, and creasing and small stain to spine panel; a few archival mending tissue repairs... Read More
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Poems of W. E. Wyatt
by Wyatt, W. E.; Dagmara [Illustrations]
Cleveland, Ohio: 7 Flowers Press, 1967. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing; one of 200 copies printed. Side stapled mimeographed sheets. Very Good or better, with toning and several faint water splashes to the front cover. Illustrated throughout with drawings by dagmara.
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The Gentleman Dancing-Master. A Comedy, Acted at the Duke's Theatre
by Wycherley, William
London: Printed by J. M. for Henry Herringman and Thomas Dring, 1673. First edition. First edition. Issue without the tailpiece on the recto of Q2. Bound in 20th century brown half morocco, reddish-brown cloth boards, gilt lettering. A Very Good, large copy. Leather edges rubbed, foxing to contents, evidence of removed bookplate on front pastedown, two ink circles on title page. The uncommon second play by poet William Wycherley (1640-1716), a satire and romp of French manners... Read More
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Generation of Vipers
by Wylie, Philip
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1942. Advance Copy. Softcover. Very Good. Advance Reading Copy. First edition. xix, 318 pp. Self-wraps, glued to spine and perhaps slightly trimmed, plain endpapers. About Very Good. Wraps a bit toned and fragile. Front cover worn along edges with a few small tears. Light stain to back cover. Slight lean to spine. One of the "pre-publication copies" that Wylie mentions in a later introduction that went out to reviewers and literary light such... Read More
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The Day of the Triffids
by Wyndham, John
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1951. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, precedes the British edition, first printing. A review copy with slip laid in. 222 pp. Bound in gray publisher's cloth, green lettering to spine. Near Fine with very light wear, and foxing and dust-soiling to top edge of textblock. Offsetting from dust jacket to free endpapers, contents lightly toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light soiling, toning, and edgewear, soft... Read More
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The Day of the Triffids
by Wyndham, John
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in green. Near Fine with faint stain to textblock fore edge at bottom, former owner name and date to verso of front free endpaper, and pages toned. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing and light spine-toning, light surface scratches to the front panel. A sharp copy. ... Read More
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