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  • Bye-Bye Brevoort: A Skit.
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $200.00
    Jackson: New Stage Theatre (1980). First edition. 20 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with printed cover label. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by the Palaemon Press. One of 400 (of 476) copies SIGNED by Welty. Originally produced as part of the Off-Broadway production, “The Littlest Revue” which opened at the Phoenix Theatre in NY in 1956.
  • One Writer’s Beginnings.
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $650.00
    Boston: Harvard University Press (1984). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 104 pp. Fine in full cloth and fine publisher’s decorated slipcase (light bubbling to one seam at the lower edge). No dust jacket, as issued. One of 350 numbered copies SIGNED by Welty. Her famous memoir in three parts: Listening, Learning to See, Finding a Voice. Illustrated.
  • The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $250.00
    Franklin Center: Franklin Library, 1980. First edition. xix + 676 pp. Very near fine in gilt-stamped full red leather. a.e.g., ribbon place-marker. Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs. Includes a “special message to the members of The First Edition Society” by Welty, not in the trade edition of this title. Though not called for, SIGNED by Welty on the half-title page.
  • The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews.
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $250.00
    NY: Random House (1977). First edition, numbered & signed issue. x + 355 pp. Very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase with light toning to extrems. One of 300 numbered copies SIGNED by Welty.
  • Three Papers on Fiction.
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $40.00
    Northampton: Smith College, 1962. First edition. 46 pp. Very near fine in printed wrappers. “Place in Fiction,” “Words into Fiction” and “The Short Story” collected. Polk A13.
  • Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!
    WELTY, Eudora.
    $150.00
    [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1979). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 13 pp. Fine in printed paper-covered boards and fine unprinted clear acetate dust jacket. One of 200 numbered copies SIGN ED by Welty. First separate appearance of this article, which appeared originally in the November 1941 issue of Junior League Magazine in slightly different form.
  • Beginning: Poems.
    WERTHEIM, Bill.
    $35.00
    NY: Columbia Review Press (1965). Second edition. 4to. 18 pp. Near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Cover photograph by Wertheim, cover design by Dave Heim. One of 150 copies. This second edition adds two poems not in the first edition.
  • A Field Guide to Hyperbolic Space: An Exploration of the Intersection of Higher Geometry and Feminine Handicraft.
    WERTHEIM, Margaret.
    $75.00
    Los Angeles: The Institute for Figuring (2006). First edition. 97 pp w/list of images. Fine in printed wrappers. An explanation, meditation, and explication of hyperbolic space with a concluding gallery of images of crochet pattern models.
  • Out of My Depths: A Swimmer in the Universe.
    WEST, Paul.
    $100.00
    NY: Anchor/Doubleday (1983). First edition. 153 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by West on the front free endpaper, “Douglas Blazek, / best regards, / Paul West.” A terrific meditation on water, the universe, and (finally) learning to swim.
  • Further Notice / Ulteriori notizie.
    WHALEN, Philip.
    $125.00
    Fondazione Franco Beltrametti/Josef Weiss Edizioni (2004). First edition, deluxe numbered issue. 45 pp. Fine in wrappers and fine integral printed dust jacket. Original poems in English with facing Italian translations by Giulia Niccolai and Anna Ruchat. Frontis woodcut illustration by Donald Guravich. One of 12 numbered copies SIGNED by Guravich at his illustration.
  • T/O.
    WHALEN, Philip.
    $500.00
    San Francisco: Dave Haselwood, 1967. First edition. Oblong 48mo. [28 pp]. Very near fine in sewn wrappers with two pasted-on paper cut-outs. One of [80] copies, printed letterpress. Haselwood 13.
  • The Elizabethan Phrase.
    WHALEN, Philip.
    $125.00
    Santa Barbara: Table Talk Press, 1985. First edition. 13 x 9 1/2 inch illustrated broadside. Fine. Designed and printed by David Dahl for the Press. One of 100 numbered copies dated (8:II:85) and SIGNED by Whalen.
  • Whomp and Moonshiver.
    WHITBREAD, Thomas.
    $75.00
    Brockport: BOA Editions, 1982. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 71 pp. Spine lightly sunned, else very near fine in marbled paper-covered boards with gilt-stamped cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Richard Wilbur. One of 10 numbered copies SIGNED by Whitbread and Wilbur, with a holograph poem by Whitbread. New Poets of America Series Vol. 7.
  • Nocturnes for the King of Naples.
    WHITE, Edmund.
    $100.00
    NY: St. Martin’s (1978). First edition. 148 pp. Two tiny spots on top edge, else fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (June 1980) and INSCRIBED by White, “To Burton / Edmund White / San Francisco” with one small holograph correction. Young 4078*.
  • States of Desire: Travels in Gay America.
    WHITE, Edmund.
    $100.00
    NY: Dutton (1980). First edition. xi + 336 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Dated (June 1980) and INSCRIBED by White. “To Burton, / all my best / Edmund White.” Review slip, promotional flyer, and author photo laid in. Young 4079*.
  • A New Book from Rome.
    WIENERS, John.
    $125.00
    Lowell: Bootstrap Press, 2010. First edition. 158 pp. Fine in gilt-decorated boards with bound-in ribbon place marker. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 258 numbered copies. Wieners’ journal from July 1969 to January 1970. All five bits of printed ephemera laid in, as issued.
  • Cultural Affairs in Boston: Poetry & Prose 1956-1985.
    WIENERS, John.
    $300.00
    Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow, 1988. First edition, publisher’s copy. 204 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Fine acetate dust jacket. Edited by Raymond Foye with an introduction by Robert Creeley. Designated “Publisher’s Copy” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Wieners, Creeley, and Foye.
  • Hotels.
    WIENERS, John.
    $1,250.00
    NY: Angel Hair Books (1974). First edition, numbered & signed issue. 4to. [12 pp]. Covers lightly toned, else very near fine in stapled wrappers. Cover art by Gordon Baldwin. One of 10 numbered copies dated (1974) and SIGNED by Wieners, and SIGNED Baldwin.
  • Selected Poems 1958-1984.
    WIENERS, John.
    $150.00
    Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow, 1986. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 317 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Faint smudge on front cover, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. Near fine clear acetate dust jacket. Edited by Raymond Foye with an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Wieners, Ginsberg, and Foye.
  • Youth.
    WIENERS, John.
    $200.00
    NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1970. First edition, lettered & signed issue. [12 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with integral printed dust jacket and pasted-on cover label. One of 26 lettered copies on Fabriano paper SIGNED by Wieners. No. 10 in the Phoenix Book Shop Oblong Octavo Series.
  • Pedestrian Flight: Twenty-One Clerihews for the Telephone.
    WILBUR, Richard.
    $90.00
    [Winston-Salem]: Palaemon Press (1981). First edition, lettered & signed issue. [16 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. One of 26 lettered copies on Arches paper SIGNED by Wright. Answering machine messages, and a few drawings, composed for Stuart Wright by Wilbur. “Stuart Wright / Has a tap on his phone-line tonight. / Since you are being recorded, / Try not to say anything sordid.”
  • Cockfighter.
    WILLEFORD, Charles.
    $250.00
    NY: Crown (1972). Second edition. 247 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with three closed edge tears, and some rubbing along the spine. The first hardcover edition of this novel, preceded by a paperback in 1962.
  • Collected Poems.
    WILLIAMS, C.K.
    $50.00
    NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2006). First edition. xx + 682 pp w/index of titles & first lines. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the title page.
  • Elegy for an Artist.
    WILLIAMS, C.K.
    $125.00
    Princeton: Typography Studio, 2001. First edition. Oblong 8vo. [18 pp]. Fine in stiff sewn wrappers and integral marbled paper dust jacket with pasted-on cover label. Illustrated with four tipped-on illustrations by Bruce McGrewn (full-color reproductions of his watercolors). One of 120 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams.
  • Helen.
    WILLIAMS, C.K.
    $125.00
    Alexandria: Orchises Press/Press of the Nightowl, 1991. First edition. [30 pp]. Fine in cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Printed by Dwight Agner. One of 250 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams on the title page, and SIGNED by Agner and Williams on the colophon page. A five part long poem.
  • Lies.
    WILLIAMS, C.K.
    $450.00
    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1969. Uncorrected proof. 62 pp. Very near fine in comb-bound wrappers. Promotional flyer taped inside the front cover. Williams’ second book.
  • Sweethearts.
    WILLIAMS, Emmett.
    $250.00
    NY: Something Else Press (1967). First US edition. [286 pp]. Light discoloration to top edge, else near fine in very good dust jacket with some shallow chipping along top edge, wear to base of spine, and light overall edgewear. Publisher’s price increase sticker to front flap. Cover image by Marcel Duchamp. Jacket flap text by Richard Hamilton. A solid copy of the less common hardcover issue of this concrete classic.
  • the last french-fried potato and other poems.
    WILLIAMS, Emmett.
    $75.00
    NY: Something Else Press, 1967. First edition. 14 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Six poems delighting in language. A “Great Bear” pamphlet.
  • Augustus.
    WILLIAMS, John.
    $450.00
    NY: Viking (1972). Uncorrected proof. 327 pp. Near fine in illustrated yellow wrappers with sunning and light wear to the unprinted spine at the crown. Galley No. 51, the numeral inked in by the publisher on the front panel, along with the date of publication and retail price. Winner of the 1973 National Book Award.
  • The Delian Seasons.
    WILLIAMS, Jonathan and Karl Torok.
    $125.00
    London: Coracle, 1982. First edition, numbered & signed issue. [29 pp]. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers and clear acetate cover. Four poems by Williams with three drawings by Torok. One of 50 numbered copies SIGNED by Williams and Torok.
  • (April 19) Lexington Nocturne: A Poem by Jonathan Williams as Interpreted by Keith Smith.
    WILLIAMS, Jonathan and Keith Smith.
    $75.00
    Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop (1983). First edition. Oblong 16mo. [48 pp]. Fine in printed wrappers. One of 250 (of 300) copies. Lavishly illustrated with erotic drawings by Smith.
  • 62 Climerikews to Amuse Mr. Lear.
    WILLIAMS, Jonathan.
    $125.00
    Roswell & Denver: DBA/JCA Editions, 1983. First edition. 4to. [50 pp]. Fine in strip-bound wrappers with clear top sheet. Cover art by John Furnival. One of 200 numbered and inscribed copies for friends of Williams and Furnival. This is copy 62 for “Alex” and initialed by Williams, “JW.”