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  • Ceci n’est pas Keith - Ceci n’est pas Rosmarie: Autobiographies.
    WALDROP, Keith and Rosmarie.
    $20.00
    Providence: Burning Deck, 2002. First edition. 93 pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. Cover photographs by Walt Odets. Illustrated with photographs. The Waldrops take turns from early memories to 1997.
  • In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women.
    WALKER, Alice.
    $300.00
    NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1973). First edition. 138 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the bottom edge of the front flap. Long endorsement on the front flap by June Jordan. Her fourth book.
  • While love is unfashionable...
    WALKER, Alice.
    $35.00
    [Berkeley]: Moe’s Books, 1984. First edition. 11 7/8 x 7 inch broadside, printed in two colors. Fine. A poem from her collection REVOLUTIONARY PETUNIAS, here presented as a gift for the New Year. Printed by Wesley Tanner.
  • Beast is a Wolf with Brown Fire.
    WALLENSTEIN, Barry.
    $75.00
    Brockport: BOA Editions, 1977. First edition, deluxe numbered & signed issue. 55 pp. Fine in marbled paper-covered boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with illustrations by Julien Alberts. Foreword by M.L. Rosenthal. One of ten numbered copies SIGNED by Wallenstein, Alberts, and Rosenthal, and with the poem “Snake” penned by Wallenstein opposite the colophon page. New Poets of America Series Vol. 2.
  • Wedge: An Aesthetic Inquiry.
    WALLIS, Brian and Phil Mariani. eds.
    $125.00
    NY: Wedge (1982). Summer. 71 pp. Spine lightly toned, else fine in printed wrappers. Contributors include Acker, Jenny Holzer, Robert Longo, Jon Hendricks, and several others, including an interview with Joseph Beuys by Art Papier. The GAAG multiple by Henricks and Toche is present and sealed in the internal pasted-on envelope.
  • Extracts from THE COMPLEAT ANGLER.
    WALTON, Isaac and Charles Cotton.
    $50.00
    Hanborough: Parrot Pieces, 1988. First edition. [36 pp]. Light sunning to spine, else very near fine in printed paper-covered boards (light taps to lower corners). Illustrations and lettering throughout by Wilton Priestner. One of 70 (of 95) numbered copies SIGNED by Priestner.
  • Partial Truth.
    WANIEK, Marilyn Nelson.
    $35.00
    Willington: Kutenai Press (1992). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn printed wrappers. Fourteen poems with two illustrations by Eric Spencer. One of 200 numbered copies on Japanese Wahon paper SIGNED by Waniek and Spencer.
  • San Quentin’s Stranger.
    WANTLING, William.
    $250.00
    Dunedin & Cardiff: Caveman Press/Second Aeon, 1973. First edition. 64 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a few little pressure dents to the front cover. Introduction by Len Fulton. An uncommon collection of poems.
  • The Awakening.
    WANTLING, William.
    $75.00
    London: Turret (1967). First edition. 47 pp w/glossary. Fine in fine dust jacket and clear glassine. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Wantling. Precedes the Rapp & Whiting trade edition.
  • Something Like a Symphony (9:1:75).
    WARD, David.
    $40.00
    London: Share Publications, 1975. First edition. [22 pp]. Very near fine in side-stapled wrappers. Ten “tracks,” each poem based on a different musical genre. Ward’s fourth publication.
  • The Offenders.
    WARD, R.H.
    $125.00
    London: Cassell (1960). First edition. 223 pp. Light foxing to top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with foxing to the edges of the unprinted rear jacker flap. Trouble at Elvey College. Young 3992.
  • The ACME Novelty Library.
    WARE, Chris.
    $75.00
    NY: Pantheon (2005). First edition. Folio. 108 pp. Fine in illustrated boards. Original wrap-around band present. Dated (2005 A.D.) and SIGNED by Ware.
  • Andy Warhol.
    WARHOL, Andy with Kasper König, Pontus Hultén, and Olle Granath. eds.
    $1,250.00
    Stockholm: Moderna Museet (1968). First edition. Small 4to. A few faint droplet marks to spine, creases to the lower corner of eight leaves (limited to the unprinted margin), else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Texts in English and Swedish translation. Profusely illustrated with photographs of Factory denizens by Billy Name and Stephen Eric Shore. Photographs of works by Rudolph Burckhardt, Eric Politzer, and John D. Schiff.
  • Cowboys and Indians.
    WARHOL, Andy.
    $45.00
    San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery, 2001. First edition. 4to. 40 pp w/list of works. Near fine in printed wrappers. Essay by Bill Berkson. Twenty color and b&w reproductions.
  • Collected Poems 1960-1984.
    WARNER, Francis.
    $25.00
    Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1985. First edition. 256 pp w/indexes of titles & first lines. Small US distributor sticker on title page and front flap, else fine in very near dust jacket. Features the sequence “Experimental Sonnets,” out of print for twenty years.
  • A Place in the Sun.
    WARSH, Lewis.
    $45.00
    NY: Spuyten Duyvil, 2009. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 37 pp. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover and internal illustrations by Pamela Lawton. One of 75 numbered copies SIGNED by Warsh and Lawton.
  • The Maharajah’s Son.
    WARSH, Lewis.
    $20.00
    Lenox & NY: Angel Hair Books (1977). First edition. [110 pp]. Near fine in illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Cover art by Rosemary Mayer. One of 1000 copies. Other people’s letters from 1960-1965.
  • The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold: A Conversation Piece.
    WAUGH, Evelyn.
    $150.00
    London: Chapman & Hall, 1957. First edition. 184 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. Waugh referred to this as his “mad book,” as it is an autobiographical account of his bromide intoxication and accompanying hallucinations. Young 4025.
  • Reading Visual Poetry after Futurism: Marinetti, Apollinaire, Schwitters, Cummings.
    WEBSTER, Michael.
    $75.00
    NY: Peter Lang (1995). First edition. xi + 197 pp. Fine in printed boards. No dust jacket, as issued. A chapter each to the figures mentioned in the title, with a generous selection of representative works at the rear of the volume.
  • Jungle: Poems.
    WEINBERGER, Eliot.
    $125.00
    NY: Geronimo Books Company, 1972. First edition. [40 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Uncommon first book of poems by the well known translator of Paz and Borges among others.
  • The Fast.
    WEINER, Hannah.
    $45.00
    NY: United Artists Books, 1992. First edition. 43 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Cover art by Anne Tardos. The first of four early journals, beginning in 1971 and culminating in her CLAIRVOYANT JOURNAL (composed in 1974, published in 1978).
  • Nach Alles After All.
    WEINER, Lawrence.
    $45.00
    Berlin & NY: Deutsche Guggenheim/Guggenheim Museum (2000). First US edition. [90 pp]. Fine in full orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front cover. No dust jacket, as issued. A vibrant presentation of this work.
  • The Scorpion.
    WEIRAUCH, Anna Elisabet.
    $750.00
    NY: Greenberg (1932). First US edition. 396 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with some light rubbing. Translated from the original German by Whittaker Chambers. One of the first German novels to present lesbian relationships in a positive light. Young 4043.
  • A Lunch Appointment.
    WELCH, Denton.
    $500.00
    [North Pomfret]: Elysium Press (1993). First edition, deluxe numbered issue. [48 pp]. Fine in full cloth with printed spine label in publisher’s matching clamshell case. Foreword by Edmund White. Illustrated by Pierre Le-Tan. One of 20 Roman numbered copies SIGNED by White, and with a corresponding numbered etching SIGNED by Le-Tan. Original prospectus accompanies.
  • Hermit Poems.
    WELCH, Lew.
    $75.00
    San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation, 1965. First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. One of 974 (of 1000) copies. Text reproduced from Welch’s handwritten manuscript. Writing 8.
  • 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.