The Only Way Out
by WILLARD, Ira O.
[Keene, NH?]: By the Author, [1954?]. Second Edition. Revised edition." Octavo (22cm). Printed white paper over boards, backed in red cloth; 239,[1]pp; illus. Printed on rough blue paper. Straight and sound, lightly rubbed, with minor toning to edges of boards and leaves: Very Good. A book in the great tradition of eccentric New England common-sense polemic, in this case a surprisingly eloquent argument against corporate greed and in favor of better public schools to produce an educated,... Read More
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Willa Cather [Inscribed]
by [WILLA CATHER] RAPIN, René
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with publisher's logo debossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [iv],115,[1]pp, with a portrait frontispiece of the author. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper: "To dear R.G.L. & G.T. Barrett / Christmas 1930 / From their friend, the Author." Spine ends gently nudged, faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, with mild... Read More
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Willa Cather
by [WILLA CATHER] RAPIN, René
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine, with publisher's logo debossed onto front cover; dustjacket; [iv],115,[1]pp, with a portrait frontispiece of the author. Light wear to crown, two tiny nicks to cloth at lower board edges, with just a touch of dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.50), spine-sunned, lightly edgeworn and dust-soiled, with a few... Read More
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The Columbian Union, Containing General and Particular Explanations of Government, and the Columbian Constitution, being an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; Providing a Yearly Revenue to Government of about Forty Millions of Dollars, and the Inevitable Union of the People by a Rule of Voting, and Exemption from Unnecessary Taxation, Consequently Their Permanent and Perpetual Freedom
by WILLARD, Simon, Jun
Albany: Printed for the Author, 1815. 12mo (18.5cm). Rebound, backed in speckled calf, with grey paper over boards; renewed endpapers; [iv], [1]-195,[1]pp. Contemporary ownership inscriptions of Jaims Sterns and Martin O'Farrell (?). Sturdy and sound, title page and first two leaves trimmed close to text along outer margins, minor stains and browning: Good or better. First edition printed in Hudson, 1814. SABIN 104124. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 36575.
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Cockfighter
by WILLEFORD, Charles
Chicago: Chicago Paperback House, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original preceding the hardcover edition by ten years. Octavo (16cm); illustrated wrappers; 286pp. Near Fine and unread, with a few pinpoint rubs at the extremities, and some shallow erosion near the upper left corner of the front wrapper. Basis for the 1974 Monte Hellman film, with the screenplay written by Willeford, and starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, and Richard B. Shull.
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The Outcast Poets. Number 8 of the Outcast Series of Chapbooks
by WILLEFORD, Charles; Thomajan, P.K.; deFord, Miriam Allan; Anthony, Robert; Kaler, F.H.
Yonkers: Alicat Bookshop, 1947. First edition. Quarto. Loose sheets in printed envelope, as issued. Small abrasion and pin-hole to envelope's upper extremity, else Fine. This is Willeford's first appearance in print, preceding his first book by more than a year. ('Entrance To An Era'; In Time of This'; 'I Passed Over the River'; 'Basement Pastoral' & 'The Apocalypse'). Number 8 in the Alicat Outcast Chapbook Series, edited by Oscar Baradinsky, a series through which Baradinsky sought to introduce young,... Read More
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Off The Wall
by WILLEFORD, Charles
Montclair: Pegasus Rex, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (22cm.); white boards titled in black on cover and spine; dustjacket; 277pp.; minor corner bend on front board; faint finger soil to fore edge of textblock, still Fine. Dustjacket is price-clipped with a short, closed tear to rear panel. Near Fine. The story of David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam, .44 caliber killer as told by Craig Glassman, the deputy sheriff who not only captured him, but by chance,... Read More
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The Laborer and the Capitalist [Review Copy, with Prospectus]
by WILLEY, Freeman Otis
New York: Equitable Publishing Co, [1896]. Octavo (21cm). Maroon cloth titled in gilt on front and spine, top edge gilt; [iv],viii,[312],[2]pp; frontispiece portrait. Lightly rubbed and bumped, overall Near Fine. With a form bound in at rear for readers to pay for copies to be distributed to "leaders of thought." Also with an 1898 letter addressed to Thomas T. Eckert, requesting a review; an advertising booklet for this title; and a pamphlet titled "Straws" by Rev. Thomas... Read More
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![Excavations at Seibal: Department of Peten, Guatemala; Number 1: Introduction The Site and Its Setting, Number 2: Ceramics [with] Number 1: Artifacts, Number 2: A Reconnaissance of Cancuen, Number 3: A Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan [Two Volumes]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/884/595/1733595884.0.l.jpg)
Excavations at Seibal: Department of Peten, Guatemala; Number 1: Introduction The Site and Its Setting, Number 2: Ceramics [with] Number 1: Artifacts, Number 2: A Reconnaissance of Cancuen, Number 3: A Brief Reconnaissance of Itzan [Two Volumes]
by WILLEY, Gordon R. (editor); A. Ledyard Smith, Ian Graham, Robert Sharick, Richard M. Rose (et al) (contributors)
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology / Harvard University, [1975 and 1978]. First Edition. Two Volumes, with five numbers total, both softcovers. Two Quarto volumes (30.5cm); paper wrappers; 56,261pp; 250pp; black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout both volumes, with two present and complete folded map illustrations in rear folder of Vol.13. Memoirs of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology Volume 13 (Numbers 1 and 2) and 14 (Numbers 1, 2, and 3). This set is from... Read More
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Little Big Horn Diary: Chronicle of the 1876 Indian War [Dedication Copy]
by WILLERT, James; Warren A. Van Ess (illus)
La Mirada, CA: James Willert, (1977). First, Limited Edition. One of 500 copies. This copy lengthily inscribed on front endpaper to Carol McGovern Cerf, daughter of the dedicatee (posthumous) Dr. William Montgomery McGovern (1897-1967). Quarto; blue cloth hardcover with silver foil stamping to spine and front cover; 476pp; illus. Also laid in is a substantial typed letter, signed, from the author to Ms. Cerf, dated 27 September 1977. A tight, square, internally clean copy, Near Fine but for some... Read More
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The Jazz Masters Series (complete): Jazz Masters of the 20's - 30's - 40's - 50's -1957-1969; Jazz Masters of New Orleans
by [JAZZ & BLUES] HADLOCK, Richard; Rex Stewart; Ira Gitler; Joe Goldberg; Martin Williams
New York: Macmillan, 1969-70. Second and fifth volumes are first printings; remainder are second or later printings. Six octavo volumes. Uniform cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 255+223+290+246+288+287pp; illustrated with photographic plates (halftones). All in Very Good or better condition in the original dustwrappers; jacket to 4th volume slightly ragged along upper edge else all Very Good or better. An indispensable set, compiling reviews, interviews, profiles and critical articles, with reading lists and selected discographies.
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The Happy End
by WILLIAMS, Ben Ames; Kenneth Roberts, fwd; Churchill Ettinger, illus
New York: The Derrydale Press, (1939). Limited Edition. No. 103 of 1250 hand-numbered copies. Octavo. Grey rough-weave linen over cloth-covered boards; gilt leather spine label; 240pp; frontispiece and eight unnumbered leaves of plates by Churchill Ettinger. Gentle toning to spine and endpapers; small smudge to margin of frontispiece, still a tight, Very Good or better copy.
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Geraldine Bradshaw
by WILLINGHAM, Calder
New York: Vanguard Press, 1950. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in copper foil on spine and author's initials on front panel; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 415pp. Some very light offset from binders glue on pastedowns, else Fine, with the topstain notably bright. Dustjacket is unclipped, with some pinpoint rubbing at the edges and light wear at the spine ends; Near Fine. The author's second book, detailing the sordid lives of a Chicago bellhop and copy boy... Read More
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Rambling Rose
by WILLINGHAM, Calder
New York: Delacorte, 1972. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Fuchsia cloth hardcover; dustjacket; pink publisher's top-stain, 309pp. Minuscule scuff at base of rear board, else a tight, Near Fine copy. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), lightly rubbed at spine-folds and extremities, VG+. Quite nice copy of the Atlanta-born author's 1972 semi-autobiographical coming of age novel, set in his native Georgia during the Great Depression. Willingham himself adapted the screenplay for the... Read More
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Hugo Black: A Study in Judicial Process
by WILLIAMS, Charlotte
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1950. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; vii, 208pp. Minor foxing to endpapers, pastedowns, and edges of textblock. Pencil eraser-sized marker dot to bottom edge of textblock, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing some minor shelf wear, as well as mild foxing to interior flaps and interior of jacket. Very Good.
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REPAIR
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1999. First edition. Uncorrected proof in glossy white wrappers with publisher printed material laid in. The Pulitzer Prize-winning title for 2000. Fine.
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SELECTED POEMS
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1994. First edition. 277 pp. An uncorrected proof copy in plain tan printed wrappers. This copy submitted to a judge (the chair in fact), another poet, with a typed letter (tls from a publicist) listing it and two other books as FS&G's three submissions for the 1994 National Book Awards. Near fine.
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A DAY FOR ANNE FRANK
by Williams, C. K.
Philadelphia: Falcon Press, 1968. First Edition. Saddle-stitched illustrated paper wrappers; 4to. [10pp.] Illustrations based on photographs of holocaust victims in a haunting near marbled-look. One of 1,000 copies; the author's first book. With a signed, single page typed letter from C.K. Williams laid in (evidently to a collector), written from Paris in 1987. The letter discusses the author's notebooks, and others aspects of his literary archive. [Please note the letter is signed - as usual with his initials, the... Read More
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A DREAM OF MIND [Signed]
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. Octavo; black cloth; dustjacket; 100pp. Signed (with his characteristic initials) on the ffep. Very slight bump to head of spine, affecting dustwrapper, still Fine.
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The Gaffe"; An Evening of Poetry with Paul Muldoon and C. K. Williams
by Williams, C. K.
Princeton, NJ: The Friends of the Princeton University Library, 26 January 2006. First Edition. Single sheet folded twice; oblong 8vo. "The Friends of the Princeton University Library. 'The Lure of the Library: The Friends at 75.' An evening of poetry with Paul Muldoon and C.K. Williams. A keepsake of the annual Winter dinner, Saturday, 26 January 2006. Printed for the occasion in the Typography Studio in Centaur, Arrighi and wood types by Robert Milevski & Charles Heckscher." [colophon]. A... Read More
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A DREAM OF MIND
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1992. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in orange printed wrappers. A light crease to the front covers, otherwise quite fine.
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FLESH AND BLOOD
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1987. First edition. An uncorrected proof in red printed wrapers of his NBCC winning collection. Pub date and price written in otherwise unmarked. With publisher information sheet laid in. Front corners lightly bumped; quite tight and clean.
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THE VIGIL [Inscribed]
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First Edition. Octavo; black boards; dustjacket; 78pp. Inscribed "For Nick [Delbanco] - admiration, and affection, Charlie", dated "Ann Arbor, 2000", and, also, signed with his usual initials on title page. Bottom tips and tail slightly bumped, but still very close to Fine in like dustwrapper. Novelist Delbanco was a professor at Michigan. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
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THE VIGIL
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997. First edition. An uncorrected proof copy in yellow wrappers. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Fine.
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MISGIVINGS
by Williams, C. K.
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000. First edition. Uncorrected proof in peach wrappers with publisher printed material laid in. Memoirs in short takes. Fine.
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