Tennessee Williams: A Tribute.; Edited by Jac Tharpe
by (Williams, Tennessee); Tharpe, Jac (ed.)
Jackson: Univ. of Mississippi Press, 1977. First edition. Black cloth, fine in lightly used dust jacket, with small edge tears.
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Dragon Country
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1970. First edition. Blue cloth, fine in dust jacket. Crandell A37.1.a.
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Moise and the World of Reason
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First edition. Dark blue leather, stamped in gilt and blind, fine. One of 350 numbered and signed copies, specially printed and bound. Crandell A41.1.a.
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Collection of Playbill magazine programs for original Broadway productions of Tennessee Williams plays
by Williams, Tennessee
The Glass Menagerie, The Playhouse Theatre, July 8, 1945 Slapstick Tragedy, Longacre Theatre, 1966 (ran for 7 performances) Out Cry, Lyceum Theatre, 1973 (ran 12 performances) Sweet Bird of Youth (revival), Harkness Theatre, 1975 Vieux Carré, St. James Theatre, 1977 (ran 6 performances) Clothes for a Summer Hotel, Cort Theatre, 1980 All in fine condition (Glass Menagerie slightly creased).
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Camino Real
by Williams, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1953. First edition. Brown cloth, fine in slightly used dust jacket. Jacket design by Alvin Lustig. Crandell A12.1.a.
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Le cri du Phoenix.; Un acte traduit par F.J. Temple avec des illustrations originales d'Arthur Secunda
by Williams, Tennessee
Montpellier: La Licornie, 1960. 4to, wrappers, slightly spotted. First edition in French, one of 230 copies. With two original illustrations. Crandell H77.
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The Poet of the Month. A Series of Poetry Pamphlets
by (Williams, William Carlos)
Norfolk: New Directions, 1941. Wrappers, edges slightly tanned, else fine. First edition. A catalogue of the first year's offerings in this distinguished series. Includes Williams's "Against the Sky," from "The Broken Span
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The Innocent Wife [Claudine s'en va]. Translated by Frederick A. Blossom. Illustrated by J. O'H. Cosgrave, II
by Colette and Willy
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. First edition. Orange cloth a near-fine copy, jacket with light edge wear, small chip at the top of the spine, affecting "THE
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By Dark Cocytus' Shore
by Wilson, Edmund
Cambridge, Mass: The Lowell-Adams House Printers, 1965. First separate edition. Broadside, 13-1/2 x 18 inches. One of 85 numbered copies, signed by Wilson, and the illustrator, Wilson's friend Mary Meigs. A fine copy of one of Wilson's scarcer titles.
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The Boys in the Back Room. Notes on California novelists
by Wilson, Edmund
San Francisco: The Colt Press, 1941. First edition. First edition, one of 100 copies signed by Wilson, printed on special paper, and specially bound. Original beige linen with paper labels (covers slightly spotted as usual), two leaves roughly opened with small tears on the fore-edge, otherwise a nice copy, partially unopened. On James M. Cain, William Saroyan, John O'Hara.
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Two autograph letters signed, to S.J. Perelman. Wellfleet, 11 December 1958; and Paris, 20 December 1963
by Wilson, Edmund
Two autograph letters signed,2 pages. In the first letter Wilson writes of the poet John Wain, who had just been visiting and "is a mad admirer" of Perelman's. Wilson is reading "The Most of S.J. Perelman," and doesn't understand how SJP "having been born, I find, nine years later than I --- [knows] about Elbert Hubbard, Chimmie Fadden, & The Japanese Schoolboy" and if Perelman's readers recognize the references. The second letter notes SJP's recent pieces in The New... Read More
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Merton of the Movies
by Wilson, Harry Leon
Garden City: Doubleday, 1922. Cloth,slight lead, but a near-fine copy in a bright, very good dust jacket, lacking two small pieces (front and back).
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Captain Rosey Namrooth and her crew attempt to prevent the Checkered Demon from rescuing Star Eyed Stella and her witch sister through a hole in the hull
by Wilson, S. Clay
1980. Black and white print 11-3/8 x 14-3/8 inches, folio removed from "Boiled Owl" #3, 1981. Inscribed by Wilson "find the picture in this mistake," signed and dated. Some minor edge wear.
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Los Gringos; or An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia
by Wise, Lieut. [Henry Augustus]
New York: Scribner, 1857. Original cloth, little worn at the ends of the spine, very good.
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Les Guérillières
by Wittig, Monique
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1969. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. One of 92 copies for Librairie des Éditions de Minuit.
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L'Opoponax
by Wittig, Monique
[Paris]: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1964. First edition. Original wrappers, fine. One of 112 copies for Librairie des Éditions de Minuit.
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Vivre et mourir.; Introduction et séparation du mot
by Wolman, Gil J.
Paris: Spiess & Nane Stern, 1984. First edition. Original wrappers, 24 x 21 cm., fine condition. Wolman's "first real book of writings, which would prompt him to call himself a 'décrivain' or 'de-writer'. In it he worked on word separation, but so as not to give the impression that this was a writer's work, he immediately produced a few 'Scotch art' pieces, describing himself as the forger of the artist he once was." Ref. "I am immortal and alive",... Read More
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The Romance of the Movies
by Wood, Leslie
London: Heinemann, 1937. First edition. Cloth, a near-fine copy in lightly used dust jacket.
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On Love. Translated from the French with an Introduction and Notes
by (Woolf, Philip Sidney and Cecil N. Sidney Woolf) Stendhal (Henry Beyle)
London: Duckworth, 1915. First edition. Blue cloth, near-fine. With a pre-publication stamp on the title page.
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The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1950. First American edition. Blue cloth, , fine, in very good, price-clipped dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. The British edition was published a week later. Kirkpatrick A30a.
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A Haunted House and other stories
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944. First American edition. Blue cloth. Leaves faintly toned as usual, a nearly fine copy, in a lightly chipped dust jacket which is repaired with tape on the inside. Kirkpatrick A28b.
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The Voyage Out
by Woolf, Virginia
New York: Doran, 1920. First American edition. Green cloth, slight lean, neat ownership signature;very good copy Kirkpatrick A1b.
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Stephen versus Gladstone
by Woolf, Virginia
Headington Quarry, 1967. First edition. Wrappers, fine. Out of series copy from an edition of fifty. Printed by Will and Sebastian Carter. Kirkpatrick A40.
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The Woollcott Reader. Bypaths in the Realms of Gold
by Woollcott, Alexander
New York: Viking, 1935. First edition. Original white parchment, leather labels, gilt top. Covers slightly darkened; very good. First edition, one of a limited and numbered edition for subscribers, signed by Woollcott. This anthology contains Woollcott's Foreword and Envoy, and includes complete texts of Barrie's Margaret Ogilvie, Wilder's The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden, Warner's Mr. Fortune's Maggot, Schwob's The Children's Crusade, Waugh's A Handful of Dust and works by Anthony Hope, Lytton Strachey, Richard Harding Davis and... Read More
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Two Citizens
by Wright, James
New York: Farrar, Straus, 1973. Wrappers, label, fine. Uncorrected page proofs of the first edition, for review.
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