To Rupert Brooke
by WOLFE, Thomas
[Paris]: Privately Printed for Richard Jean Picard, 1948. First, Limited Edition. First separate printing. No. 3 of 100 copies. Chapbook. Small octavo; printed ivory card wrappers; [8]pp. Very faint crease to upper corner of text, else Fine. First separate publication of this six-stanza tribute to the British war poet Rupert Brooke, originally published in the The University of North Carolina Magazine for May 1918. JOHNSTON D5.
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A Note on Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner
by WOLFE, Thomas
New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1939. First Edition. First printing. No. 40 of 300 copies printed. Octavo (19.5cm). Original brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [28]pp, n.p. Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press in Portland, ME; number 5 in a series of Crown Octavos. Tight and square with minor discoloration to endpapers; Very Good or better, lacking the publisher's unprinted glassine wrapper. Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Mary with love and the hope of a heated argument," signed... Read More
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A Note on Experts: Dexter Vespasian Joyner
by WOLFE, Thomas
New York: House of Books, Ltd, 1939. First Edition. First printing. No. 60 of 300 copies printed. Octavo (19.5cm). Original brown cloth, titled in gilt; plain endpapers; [28]pp, n.p. Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press in Portland, ME; number 5 in a series of Crown Octavos. Tight and square, spine lightly faded, edges gently rubbed, minor discoloration to e.p.s, occasional spots of foxing throughout: Very Good. Lacking the original glassine. "Among the manuscripts left by Thomas Wolfe there... Read More
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Antaeus, or A Memory of Earth
by WOLFE, Thomas; Ted Mitchell, ed; John L. Idol, Jr., fwd
N.p. [Asheville]: The Thomas Wolfe Society, 1996. First, Limited Edition. No. 243 of 750 numbered copies. Octavo. Pictorial, laminated boards (hardcover); xv,80pp. Fine, unread copy; appears new. Issued without dustwrapper. Previously unpublished "Prelude" to Wolfe's proposed novel The October Fair, which under the supervision of Max Perkins would be edited to become Of Time and the River; portions were also incorporated into the posthumously-published novel The Web and the Rock.
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The Autobiographical Outline for Look Homeward, Angel
by WOLFE, Thomas (text); CONNIFF, Lucy and Richard S. Kennedy (editors)
N.p.: The Thomas Wolfe Society, 1991. First Edition. One of 700 numbered copies, this being copy no.271. Octavo (26.25cm); beige pictorial boards, titled in dark brown; xxvi,99,[3]pp; illus. A Fine copy.
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Looking Homeward: A Thomas Wolfe Photo Album [Signed]
by [WOLFE, Thomas] TEICHER, Morton I.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong octavo (24cm x 6cm); maroon paper-covered boards, with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [xvi],[1],2-pp; black and white photographs (halftones) throughout. Signed on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper lightly shelfworn, with dust-soil to front panel, and two tiny closed tears to lower rear panel; Near Fine. "A collection of 245 pictures that chronicle this great writer's life" (from front flap). Concludes with chronology and selected... Read More
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Thomas Wolfe: The Final Journey
by [WOLFE, Thomas] BERGER, Brian F. (introduction; itinerary); Edward M. Miller (memoir remembrance)
West Linn: Willamette River Press, 1984. First Edition. First Printing, one of 750 copies. Octavo (21cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and illustrations stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; pictorial dustjacket; [iii],[11],12-45,[viii]pp; illustrated portrait frontispiece of Wolfe, with black and white photographs (halftones) throughout. Folded facsimile letter from Wolfe in rear pastedown pocket. Lower corners lightly tapped, else Fine in a Fine, unclipped (priced $10.00) dustwrapper. Describes Wolfe's and Miller's automobile journey through National Parks before... Read More
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[George Webber, Writer]: An Introduction By A Friend
by WOLFE, Thomas; John L. Idol, Jr., ed
N.p. [Asheville]: The Thomas Wolfe Society, 1994. First, Limited Edition. No. 623 of 750 numbered copies. Octavo. Pictorial, laminated boards (hardcover); xviii,63,[4]pp. Fine, unread copy; appears new. Issued without dustwrapper. Previously unpublished short story, extracted from Wolfe's manuscripts, ca 1930-38.
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The Letters of Thomas Wolfe
by WOLFE, Thomas (letters); NOWELL, Elizabeth (editor)
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1956. First Edition. First Printing, with publisher's A-7.56[V] code on copyright page. Octavo (24cm); in Johnston's "Format A" binding, in black cloth and black-flecked blue paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xx,797,[1]pp, with portrait frontispiece of the author. Fine in a Very Good+ to Near Fine dustjacket, lightly edgeworn, with sunning to spine, and a few small, faint smudges to same. JOHNSTON A18.1.a.
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
by WOLFE, Thomas
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [2],viii,626,[2]pp. Base of spine bumped, crown gently nudged, with some light external wear, and two faint tape ghosts on front endpaper; contents otherwise clean; Very Good+. In the second state dustjacket, unclipped (priced $2.50), gently spine-sunned, modest external wear, with some shallow losses to crown and upper corners (costing a few letters in... Read More
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In Our Time [Inscribed]
by WOLFE, Tom
New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1980. First Edition. First Printing. Quarto (28.5cm); lavender paper-covered boards and purple cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],[1]-119,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author with quote a bit of flourish in brown marker on front endpaper: "To Dorothy / Tom Wolfe." Slight forward lean, lower corners bumped (though still sharp), with boards and textblock slightly misaligned, and some offsetting from front panel text onto front cover; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped... Read More
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Autoren/Bucher/Abenteuer; Tullipan; Mausefest; Onkel, Onkel; Menschen in freundlicher Umgebung; [and] Ein Ort fur Zufalle [Six Issues]
by WOLFF, Kurt, Christoph Meckel, Johannes Bobrowski, Gunter Grass, Hans Werner Richter, Ingeborg Bachmann (et al)
Berlin: Verlag Klaus Wagenbach, 1965. Six Issues, all softcovers, with five publisher's promotional card laid into Vol. II-Vol VI (with light corresponding offsetting). Octavo (21cm); black paper wrappers; 116pp; 77pp; 78pp; 94pp; 79pp; 70pp; Vol I has portrait frontispiece, and all issues include black-and-white illustrations throughout. Text in German. Lightly tanned with modest shelf-wear, and pencilled notes to lower margin of final page of each issue; overall a Very Good set. Collection of short stories and verse by German... Read More
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Night Shift [Advance Copy]
by WOLFF, Maritta
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. Publisher's advance, with the textblock glued into the finished dustjacket. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 662pp. Gentle sunning to spine, with some light rubbing to joints; Near Fine, and very scarce in this format. "A ruthless, dramatic, fatalistic picture of cruelty and fear in a small factory town in wartime," with an accurate treatment of boardinghouse life, restaurants, hospitals, factories, and nightclubs - a studied representation of how the other half lives. Basis for... Read More
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12 Years Old and Turned On [drop title: Twelve and Turned-On: Women's Liberation in a Junior High]
by WOLFSON, Sharon
Washington DC: Washington D.C. Women's Liberation, n.d., ca. 1970. First Edition. Quarto (27.75cm.); yellow pictorial self-wrapper staplebound to top left-hand corner; 4pp. About Fine. Text in double columns, the right-hand text comprised of comments made by the author's female students ("I bought some face powder this week and the ad inside said all these things about how he will love the smooth look...Why do you always have to look nice for him?" OCLC locates one copy as of May,... Read More
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Stampede to Timberline: The Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Colorado [Signed]
by WOLLE, Muriel Sibell
Boulder, CO: Muriel S. Wolle, [1952]. Fifth printing. Quarto (26cm). Taupe cloth stamped in red-orange; cartographic endpapers; [xii],544pp; black and white illustrations. Signed by author on title page, also with other gift inscription. Textblock sagging slightly, boards very lightly splayed, but clean: Very Good.
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Mike Mars Flies the Dyna-Soar
by WOLLHEIM, Donald
New York: Doubleday, 1962. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); gray boards stamped in black and white on spine; b&w illustrations by Albert Orbaan; gray topstain; color illustrated endpapers; dustjacket; 189pp. Spine end pushed at tail, light wear only- Near Fine; dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.25); foxing to verso of jacket; lightly rubbed, else Fine. CURREY, p.547.
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Some Processes in Sexist Education
by WOLPE, Ann-Marie
London: Women's Research and Resources Centre Publications, 1977. Reprint (1978). Octavo (20.75cm.); original grey printed staplebound wrappers; [2],i,[1],41pp. Fine. Explorations in Feminism no. 1. Second section on sexuality and gender roles in secondary schools.
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The Facts
by [WOLTMAN, Frederick]
New York: New York World-Telegram, [1948]. Octavo (22cm). Staple-bound pamphlet. Printed paper wrappers; 24pp. Mild creasing and soil; Very Good or better. Reprints Woltman's series of 1947 articles in the Scripps-Howard newspapers exposing supposed Communist infiltration in the Methodist Church, particularly referencing the December, 1947 Conference of the Methodist Federation for Social Action. Not in Seidman; OCLC gives 2 locations (Indiana State, Michigan State).
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Stop, Look and Listen (Beware)
by [RADICAL RIGHT & FASCISM] "By a Nashville Woman
N.p., n.d. [Nashville, 1957?]. Handbill, 8-1/2" x 7" (ca 22cm x 18cm). Printed from typescript, one-side only on white paper. Mild evidence of use; Near Fine. Presumably self-published handbill by an anonymous "Nashville Woman," arguing for the innocence of segregationist gadfly John Kasper (who served an eight month sentence for conspiracy in 1957) and suggesting that space ships full of "little green men" [i.e. communists] were taking over city halls, police departments and state houses throughout the... Read More
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Poster: 30 maart vrouwenstaking [March 30th, Women's Day]
by [WOMEN]
Netherlands, n.d. but 1981. Original pictorial poster (46x35cm.) printed offset in blue on white stock; light wrinkling from handling, small piece of glue residue from previously perished tape to verso of both top corners showing through to recto, else Very Good overall. Pro-choice poster, the illustration showing a written note hanging from a clothesline reading "Ik staak tegen de abortuswet" ("I strike against the abortion law"). Includes blank space at the bottom of the image for local information. This... Read More
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Broadside: Abortion - Must We Come To This
by [WOMEN]
Statesville, NC: American Psychiatrists for Neutrality on Abortion, [1991-92]. Original broadisde, with text and illustrations printed in black on white bond, measuring 8.5" x 11". Horizontal fold smoothed-out at center, else Near Fine. Broadside issued by the American Psychiatrists for Neutrality on Abortion (APNOA), highlighting the conflict within the mental health community (specifically the APA) over the abortion issue. The APNOA "was formed after APA's President Elissa Benedak invited Planned Parenthood's President Faye Wattleton to address the Convocation at... Read More
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Libera - No.1 (Winter, 1972)
by [WOMEN]
[Berkeley]: Associated Students of the University of California and the Berkeley Women's Collective, 1972. First Edition. Quarto (27.5cm); photo-illustrated card wrappers, stapled; 56pp; illus. Some trivial wear along spine-fold, else Fine. Debut issue of this short-lived feminist journal "where a woman can share expressions of her true self emerging from her struggle for liberation." Contains articles, fiction, poetry and graphics by women from around the country.
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Poster: "Through the strength realized from music women create an energy that is solely their own
by [WOMEN]
Madison, WI: Survival Graphics, [n.d. but ca.early 1980's]. Original illustrated poster, silkscreened in red and black on white stock, measuring 74cm x 46cm (29" x 18"). Edgeworn, extremities slightly toned and creased, with several tears ranging from 1/4" to 1 3/4"; Very Good. Poster produced by the Madison, Wisconsin-based Survival Graphics collective, depicting four featureless women holding a banner bearing inspirational text. Material produced by the collective is uncommon, with none held at CSPG, and minimal representation (2 locations)... Read More
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Moving Out - Vol.1, No.2
by [WOMEN] FINDLAY, Alice, et al. (editors)
Detroit: Moving Out / Wayne Women's Liberation, 1971. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); offset printed sheets, side-stapled into illustrated wrappers; 100pp; illus. Trivial wear to extremities, some oxidation to staples, else Near Fine. Well-preserved copy of this pioneering Detroit-based literary journal, produced by the Wayne Women's Liberation (out of Wayne State University), a cooperative of women and "a recognized campus organization...engaged in a variety of activities; rap groups; publications; setting up a library and literature tables; and working for the... Read More
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