STRING LIGHT
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1991. First Edition. Photographic wrappers; 8vo. 62 pp. Paperback issue of this early book by one of our major poets. Easily very good copy, covers lightly soiled, a few squiggly impressions on verso but tight and with little wear.
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TREMBLE
by Wright, C(arolyn) D.
New York: The Ecco Press, 1996. First Edition. First printing, cloth issue (there was a simultaneous issue in wraps). Small octavo; cloth-backed boards; dustjacket; 60pp. The paper is beginning to show the signs of aging endemic to this edition, but else Fine in Fine dustwrapper.
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STEAL AWAY
by Wright, C(arolyn) D.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2002. First edition. An Advanced Readers' Copy in printed wraps. Very Good, bottom cover creased.
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JUST WHISTLE
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Berkeley: Kelsey St. Press, 1993. First edition. A paperback original with printed photographs by Deborah Luster. 8vo. 55 pp. Wright's seventh collection. Both poet and photographer are Arkansas natives. A tight clean copy with edgewear, creasing and rubbing to the covers. Very good. Uncommon.
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DEEPSTEP COME SHINING
by Wright, C(arolyn). D.
Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1998. First Edition. Tall octavo; cloth; dustjacket; 111pp. Fine in like dustwrapper. Wright was the publisher of Lost Roads Publishers originally founded by Frank Stanford. This volume consists of a single long poem based on a trip made through her native Arkansas.The hardcover issue (there was a simultaneous paper issue) is somewhat elusive.
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APPALACHIA
by Wright, Charles
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998. First edition. 69 pp. Uncorrected proof in beige glossy wrappers, with publicity sheet laid in. Fine.
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Absolutely Nothing To Get Alarmed About
by WRIGHT, Charles
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo. Quarter maroon cloth over yellow textured boards; dustjacket; maroon top-stain, 215pp. Fine condition. African-American author's third book, covering "poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots..." (upper jacket flap).
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The Night the Gods Smiled: An Inspector Charlie Salter novel
by WRIGHT, Eric
London: Crime Club / Collins, 1983. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; 181pp.; dustjacket. Minor spot of discoloration to upper textblock, Near Fine copy. The dustjacket shows mild rubbing to the extremities and front panel, Very Good+. First Charlie Salter mystery. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel, City of Toronto Book Award, and Britain's John Creasy Memorial Award for best crime drama. "Professor... Read More
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Death In The Old Country: An Inspector Charlie Salter novel
by WRIGHT, Eric
Toronto: Crime Club / Collins, 1985. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20cm); red paper-covered boards titled in gilt on the spine; 175pp.; dustjacket by Howard Barthrop. Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped with price sticker on the rear panel ($17.95, Duthie Books) with nicks and short closed tears to the extremities, Very Good+. Third Charlie Salter mystery. Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. "When Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police takes a... Read More
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Their Yesterdays
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
Chicago: Book Supply Company, 1912. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). First edition sheets in the remainder binding, with A.L. Burt slug at base of spine, but in the correct Book Supply Company dustwrapper. Green cloth hardcover, titles stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 311pp. Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly soiled and rubbed on lighter portions, still on the better side of VG. A love story, featuring an unnamed couple in... Read More
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A Son of His Father
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1925. First Edition. First printing, with publisher's (1) at end of text. Octavo (20cm). Red cloth hardcover, titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 355pp. Scattered faint foxing, scuff to upper edge of text block, else tight and Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, lightly rubbed on lighter portions, but still very well-preserved, Near Fine. A western romance, set in the border country of southern Arizona. Harold Bell... Read More
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Witness to Witchcraft
by WRIGHT, Harry B.
London: Souvenir Press, 1957. First Edition. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's green cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, light wear to extremities, in a bright, clean dustjacket with some inoffensive wear to the edges and corners, and some minor soiling to the white rear panel. A very good copy with a little fraying around the edges. 218pp. Internally clean, with a central section of black and white photographs of various rituals, and indigenous peoples. A fascinating account of... Read More
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The Re-Creation of Brian Kent
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
Chicago: Book Supply Company, 1919. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (20cm). Maroon cloth hardcover, titled in gilt on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 352pp. Near Fine in the original pictorial dustwrapper, slightly rubbed and edgeworn with triangular chip to upper margin of rear panel and small loss at crown; VG. A romance of crime and redemption set in the Missouri Ozarks, source for the 1925 silent film starring Helene Chadwick and Kenneth Harlan. Wright, today little-remembered, was... Read More
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Exit
by WRIGHT, Harold Bell
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm); red textured cloth boards stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 315pp. Gilt slightly dulled, with some trivial soil to text edges, preliminary and terminal leaves; Near Fine. The dustjacket is remarkably bright and fresh, with some pinpoint rubbing and a few tiny nicks to note; Near Fine. One of Wright's later novels, surrounding a multi-generational love triangle in a small Ohio town.
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Six Months at Graefenberg; with Conversations in the Saloon, on Nonresistance and Other Subjects
by WRIGHT, H[enry] C.
London: Charles Gilpin, 1845. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm). In brown cloth, stamped in blind on boards, titled in gold on spine; yellow endpapers; viii, 358, [2]pp; with two pages of publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece portrait. Bookplate of Rachel R. Janes; ownership inscription of Edward Wayne, 1946. Slightly cocked, faded, and rubbed; sewing slightly loosened with one or two gatherings lightly pulled; two-inch split to cloth over rear hinge; minor foxing and fingersoil throughout: Good or better.... Read More
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THE LION'S TAIL AND EYES
by Wright, James; William Duffy; Robert Bly (signed by)
Minnesota: The Sixties Press, 1962. First edition. Plain card covers in printed dust jacket; 8vo 45 pp. Ten poems each from three principles of the influential little mag "The Fifties", "The Sixties". The first appearance of Bly in a book (after a broadsheet and a translation); the first appearance of Wright's great (arguably his most famous) poem "Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm..." which ends: "I have wasted my life". This copy SIGNED by Bly on the... Read More
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THE GREEN WALL
by Wright, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. Patterned paper-covered boards in dustjacket; small 8vo. 93 pp. Inscribed on the front flyleaf "For Leyta (?) Willis, With gratitude and high regards from [and signed] Jim Wright June 1957". This is an early copy: the book was published in mid-April; although the inscribee is unknown, the inscription would suggest a colleague or the like. Except for a business card sized offest on the fly verso and opposite half-title a Fine... Read More
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TWO CITIZENS
by Wright, James
New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Octavo. Publisher's black cloth spine over orange cloth boards, titled in gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 59 pp. Wright's sixth collection includes "The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martin's Ferry, Ohio." Internally clean, ink ownership to flyleaf. Jacket spine slightly toned and lightly rubbed, a small nick to the head of the spine panel. A near Fine copy in dustjacket.
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A Reply to Matthew Arnold [Limited Edition]
by WRIGHT, James
[Durango, CO]: Logbridge-Rhodes, [1981]. First Edition. Limited to 22 copies wrapped in handmade papers and numbered for the series of Limited Editions, of which this is no. 7. 12mo (19cm.); original grey unadorned stitched wrappers; 19pp. Fine.
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THE GREEN WALL
by Wright, James
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. A Review copy with reviewer's slip laid in. Hardcover. Small octavo; patterned paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 93pp. Prior owner's name in blue pencil. At the end of Auden's introduction quoting lines from Wright someone has written (in pencil) the final quatrain in reverse, and commented interestingly: "note the hovering image of the turn-ed worm". At any rate other than these marks in pencil, and some light edgewear; Near Fine in like dustwrapper.... Read More
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The Temple in Nimes
by WRIGHT, James
Worcester: Metacom Press, 1982. First edition. Number 47 of 150 (176 total) copies from Nancy King and William Ferguson's Metacom press, hand-set in Spectrum & Centaur types on Antique Laid paper. Fine in sewn Fabriano wrappers with printed paper cover label. The first publication in book form of these poems, some of the last he wrote: on Rome, Ohio, women and nature.
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The New and Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ [etc...]
by WRIGHT, Paul
Winchester, VA: J. Foster, 1818. Second Winchester edition of this standard Life of Christ, first published in England in 1782. Octavo. Contemporary sheep; 512pp. Non-authorial ink presentation inscription at close of Preface: "Georg W. Heath son of Tomas & Matilda Heath was born May (the) 25th in the year of our Lord A.D. 1843 - his book - give to him by his Parentes [sic]," signed "Isaiah Heath," with annotation "son of James Heath" added in later hand. Mild... Read More
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American Hunger
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Row, Publisher's, 1977. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.5cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 148pp. Upper board edges gently sunned, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped (priced $8.95), with light shelfwear and rubbing overall. Wright's continuation of his autobiographical work Black Boy, covering his struggle to create a new life in Chicago, his early days and break with the Communist Party, and the ostracism that followed.
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The Negro in Pennsylvania: a Study in Economic History. A Thesis Submitted to the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Ph.D.
by WRIGHT, Richard Robert (Jr.)
Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern, 1911. First Edition. First printing. Wrappered issue. Octavo (23cm); printed buff card wrappers; 250pp. Straight and clean, with some mild creasing to wrapper edges and a few page margins; Very Good. We have noted at least a few copies over the years in cloth, presumably issued simultaneously, but the wrappered issue appears to have constituted most of the print run. Wright (b.1891) was the first African-American doctoral graduate from the University of Pennsylvania, and... Read More
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Black Power: A Record of Reactions in a Land of Pathos
by WRIGHT, Richard
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Reprint. Octavo (22cm); maroon boards quarter bound in black, with titling stamped in white on the spine; dark yellow topstain; dustjacket; 358pp. Lower board edges bumped, thin crack at gutter between half-title and frontispiece; with mild offset from binders glue to rear pastedown; Very Good. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $4.00), edgeworn and spine-sunned, with chips to crown, numerous edge tears, and attendant creases; Very Good only. Wright's seventh book, which examines the revolutionary... Read More
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