She Knew She Was Right
by WILLIAMS, Jesse Lynch
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); original cloth in green pictorial dust jacket; [10],345pp. Some shallow chips and losses at top jacket extremities, including at rear panel affecting text without loss of meaning, the whole rather dust-soiled, especially rear panel, else Near Fine in About Very Good jacket. New York society novel. Not in Hanna.
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Thoughts on Love and Life [Cover title: Thoughts of Love & Life]
by WILLIAMS, Joan
Milwaukee: Shore Publishing Co, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original green printed staplebound card wrappers; 24pp. Fine. Self-published collection of Christian poetry.
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Night Song
by WILLIAMS, John A.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm.); brown spine over tan boards; black topstain; dustjacket; 219pp.; a few faint scuffs to the boards still a Fine copy. The dustjacket has a bit of toning and there are a few tiny nicks along edges mostly; small tape repair at rear flap; a Very Good+. Inspired by the life of Charlie "Bird" Parker, this poignant, provocative, and stylistically brilliant tale paints a vivid picture... Read More
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The Angry Ones
by WILLIAMS, John A.
New York: Pocket Books, 1970. First Pocket Books Edition. Octavo (18cm); illustrated wrappers; bright pink edge-staining; [6],184,[2]pp ads. Gentle sunning to top edge, else a Fine, unread copy. Attractive copy of Williams's first novel, initially released by Ace in 1960. A powerful story of the racism that faces an educated Black man in the professional world, and the painful truths that warp interracial sex.
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Pamphlet for Intersection Poetry Series
by Williams, John (ex. director)
San Francisco: Intersection, June 1974. First Edition. Single sheet folded into thirds to create a pamphlet. Light blue with a small illustration on the front; 8.5" x 11" unfolded. Advertises Tuesday and Thursday evening readings, the Poet as Teacher Program, the Poets' Coalition, and various workshops. Some creasing/bent corners and wear, one small tear. Very good.
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LINES ABOUT HILLS ABOVE LAKES [Review Copy]
by Williams, Jonathan; John Wain (foreword)
Fort Lauderdale: Roman Books, 1964. First edition. One of 750 copies (800 total) printed by the Auerhahn Press, a Review Copy with publisher's stamp on front free end paper. String-tied illustrated wrappers; 27pp. Lightly soiled; Fine. "Postals" by Williams from his month-long trip in the U. K.
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Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting's 75th Birthday
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan (editor); Russell Banks, Hayden Carruth, and Robert Creeley (et al) (contributors)
Highlands, North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Octavo (23cm); pictorial paper wrappers; [n.p.]; fold-out illustrated title page, colorful fold-out illustration, black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light shelf-wear with trace blue off-setting to rear wrapper; Very Good. Collection of verse and artwork includes contributions by Richard Hamilton, Christopher Middleton, and Jerome Rothenberg. [87520].
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The Locologodaedalist in Situ
by WILLIAMS, Jonathan
London: Cape Goliard, 1971. First Trade Edition. Quarto. 25cm. Publisher's decorated card wraps. Unpaginated. [152pp.] Clean and strong with light cosmetic wear and soiling to the corners and spine ends, a touch of toning to the spine; internally clean and fresh. A very good copy indeed. A collection of Williams' poetry from 1968-1970, with additional material from the poet's notes and from the artistic contributions of Joe Tilson.
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I'll Find a Way Or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
by WILLIAMS, Juan, Dwayne Ashley, and Shawn Rhea; Ed Bradley, intro
[New York]: Amistad, [2004]. First Edition. Large octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's two-toned paper-covered boards in photo-illustrated dust jacket; xxiv,[2],453pp.; illus. throughout. Some dust-soil to jacket, else Very Good to Near Fine.
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Burn, Baby, Burn!" Is Your City Next
by WILLIAMS, Julian
N.p. [Tulsa]: Christian Crusade Publications, n.d. [1968]. First Edition. 12mo. Staple-bound pamphlet. Pictorial card wrappers; 48pp. Fine, unread copy. Racial strife explained as a Communist plot to disrupt American stability. The author was "Research Director" for the Christian Crusade, a faith-based, segregationist, anti-Communist ministry founded and fronted by televangelist Billy James Hargis.
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The Heart of the Furnace
by WILLIAMS, Lambert
New York: Appleton-Century, 1937. First American Edition. Octavo (21cm). Blue cloth boards, lettered in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 298pp. Fine, tight copy in original, unclipped dustwrapper, lightly, evenly soiled, still Near Fine. Odd and uncommon working-class novel, concerning a murder and a love triangle involving two blind basket-weavers. The setting is Cape Town; the author was an Australian-born South African. There were American and British editions but no South African edition that we can find; the... Read More
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Summer Cruise in the Mediterranean, On Board An American Frigate
by WILLIS, N. Parker
Detroit: Kerr, Doughty & Lapham, 1853. Octavo (21cm). Brown cloth stamped in blind on boards and in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; [xvii],[14]-396pp. A sturdy copy with mild wear to edges, spine sunned, neat restoration at head, scattered mild foxing: around Very Good. Travel writings by the highest-paid magazine writer of the era. This title is a "Reprint of material extracted from Pencillings by the Way, 1844, with a new 'Preface'" (BAL). This is the uncommon Detroit... Read More
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IN GOSSAMER GREY
by Williams, Oscar
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1921. First Edition. Sewn wrappers; thin 12mo. 16 pp. Inscribed by the poet to Will Ransom, with Ransom's small bookplate on the back cover verso. Presumably Williams' first book as he also won the Yale Younger Poet Award in the same year, but that is not mentioned in the preliminaries. Covers mostly split, but binding cord holding, and else very good. Common title, scarce signed, and in this case a good association. Ransom was a noted... Read More
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Loyalties
by WILLIAMS, Raymond
London: Chatto and Windus, 1985. First Edition. First impression. Octavo (23cm); green cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 378pp. Small remainder mark bottom edge, else a tight, fine copy in the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced £9.95 on lower front flap), lightly creased at extremities; Very Good or better. Historical novel set in Wales and incorporating events in the Spanish Civil War.
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Artists in Revolution; Portraits of The Avant-Garde 1905-1925
by WILLIAMS, Robert C.
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's original burgundy cloth titled in gilt to spine with publisher's imprint in blind to front board. Dustjacket. [x]; 242pp. Clean, bright, and handsome with some light wear to extremities and a long, straight surface scratch to the cloth of the front board; internally clean; in a strong, smart dustjacket with some minor soiling, fraying to the spine ends, and some light marginal wear. A very good copy. ... Read More
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The Boss, or The Governor: the Truth About the Greatest Political Conspiracy in the History of America
by [WILLIAM SULZER] THOMAS, Samuel Bell
New York: The Truth Publishing Co, 1914. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Publisher's gray-green cloth with gilt titles and pictorial pastedown to front cover; 456pp; illus. Slight discoloration and sun-fading to cloth, still a tight, clean copy, free of internal markings or wear - Very Good. A defense of the recently-impeached New York Governor William Sulzer, whose reformist and populist policies had put him at odds with the Tammany Hall regime, with predictable results. He remains the... Read More
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American Permian Vertebrates
by WILLISTON, Samuel W.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (25cm). Original green buckram, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [vi],145,[1]pp; photographic frontispiece, 38 halftone plates, in-text wood engravings throughout. Bookplate of James Glen Mead, laid down over another bookplate. Sound and straight, but rubbed, marginal tear to frontispiece just affecting image area: just Very Good. Williston was a paleontologist and entomologist at Yale, the University of Kansas, and the University of Chicago. In 1908, he explored... Read More
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In The Winter Of Cities
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed patterned boards; dustjacket; 117pp. Gentle fading to board edges; front endpapers faintly foxed, else a tight, clean, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $3.50 on front flap), slightly sunned on lighter portions and rubbed on lower third of spine, Very Good.
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Moise and the World of Reason (Signed / Ltd Ed)
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First, Limited Edition. Octavo. Full navy blue morocco with gilt spine titles; top edge gilt; 190pp. One of 350 copies, signed by the author on limitation leaf. A fine, unworn copy.
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The Rose Tattoo
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
[New York]: New Directions Book, [1950]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); original red cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xv,[1],144pp. A few shallow losses and closed tears to jacket extremities, else Near Fine in Near Very Good jacket.
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Baby Doll
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
London: Secker and Warburg, 1957. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo(20cm); red paper covered boards stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 140pp.; with two inserted leaves reproducing 8 black and white stills from the 1957 film.; Fine copy in an unclipped, slightly rubbed pictorial dustjacket (priced £12. 6d) with two tiny closed tears to top edge; repaired neatly on verso with tape, pink slightly faded on spine, else Near Fine. From the dustjacket: "We believe that the... Read More
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In The Winter Of Cities
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1956. First Edition. Tall octavo. Cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 117pp. A lovely, clean copy in an unclipped dustwrapper with a small nick to the head of the spine on the rear panel, and two closed tears to the ends of the front spine hinge. Shows very well.
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Moise and the World of Reason
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth-covered boards, with titling stamped in blue and silver on spine; blue endpapers; dustjacket; 190pp. Light shelf-soil with foxing to edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Wendell Minor, unclipped (priced $6.95), lightly tanned, with trivial surface wear, tiny sticker to front flap, and creases to extremities; Very Good. Novel explores homosexual love and the meaning of life. [85159].
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The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Other Stories
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
New York: New Directions, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Blue cloth hardcover in dust jacket; 183pp. A fine copy, free of markings or notable wear. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.50 at base of front flap), clean and crisp without the usual toning to spine panel; Fine. The title novella is an undeservedly neglected masterpiece of queer dystopian camp, begun in the Forties as Williams was coming to terms with his own sexuality. A tough book to... Read More
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Orpheus Descending: A Play
by WILLIAMS, Tennessee
London: Secker and Warburg, 1958. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; dark red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 96pp. Faint foxing to upper edge of textblock, else Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped, with some mild wear to extremities and a neat, 2.5" split at lower rear flap fold. Basis for the Broadway production of the same name, as well as the 1959 screen adaptation The Fugitive Kind, directed by Sidney Lumet and... Read More
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