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  • It Happened the Day the Sun Rose.
    WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
    $450.00
    Los Angeles: Sylvester & Orpahnos, 1981. First edition, binder’s copy. 34 pp. Fine in full decorated black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Very near fine publisher’s slipcase. Title page woodcut by Achilles Droungas. Printed by Patrick Reagh. A short story. Designated “Binder’s” on the colophon page and SIGNED by Williams.
  • The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Volume 2.
    WILLIAMS, Tennessee.
    $350.00
    NY: New Directions (1971). First edition. 591 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket. SIGNED by Williams on the front free endpaper. Collects THE ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE, SUMMER AND SMOKE, THE ROSE TATTOO, and CAMINO REAL.
  • A Correspondence.
    WILLIAMS, William Carlos & Sanford, John.
    $20.00
    Santa Barbara: Oyster Press, 1984. First edition. 53 pp. Fine in wrappers and integral printed dust jacket. Foreword by Paul Mariani. Both sets of letters, with Sanford’s commentary.
  • Two Poems.
    WILLIAMS, William Carlos and William Zorach.
    $100.00
    (np): Stovepipe Press, 1937. First edition. [8 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers with printed paper cover label. One of 430 (of 500) copies. Prints WCW’s “Advent of To-Day” and “The Girl” along with two drawings by Zorach. Wallace B27.
  • The Build-Up: A Novel.
    WILLIAMS, William Carlos.
    $100.00
    NY: Random House (1952). First edition, second issue. 335 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a small wrinkle to crown. Design by Merle Armitage. “New Directions” pasted over “Random House” on the title page, one of 684 copies thus. Wallace A37a.
  • The Patriot’s Progress.
    WILLIAMSON, Henry.
    $25.00
    London: Macdonald (1968). Second edition, first printing. 194 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Illustrated with lino-cuts by William Kermode. Williams contributes a new Preface and Epigraph to his celebrated WWI novel.
  • End as a Man.
    WILLINGHAM, Calder.
    $150.00
    London: John Lehmann (1952). First UK edition. 240 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Cover art by Roy Sanford. Willingham’s first novel, set in an American Southern military academy. Young 4164.
  • Hesse, Reich, Borges: Three Essays.
    WILSON, Colin.
    $50.00
    Philadelphia: Leaves of Grass Press (1974). First edition. 78 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Review slip laid in.
  • The Bang Bang Family.
    WILSON, Gahan.
    $100.00
    NY: Scribner’s, 1974. First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Wilson on the front free endpaper, “To Marvin / from / Gahan Wilson” with drawings of two stars incorporated into the inscription.
  • Irish Musicians.
    WINCH, Terence.
    $45.00
    Washington DC: O Press (1974). First edition. 4to. 27 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Winch on the title page. Second book by Winch, himself a musician, who also published the first issue of Mass Transit magazine, and co-founded Some of Us Press.
  • Stone in the Hourglass.
    WINDHAM, Donald.
    $200.00
    Verona: Sandy Campbell, 1981. First edition, numbered & signed issue. 153 pp w/note. Fine in illustrated wrappers and fine publisher’s slipcase. Cover art from a collage of printed papers by Fritz Bulman. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. One of 50 numbered copies on Magnani paper SIGNED by Windham.
  • Brilliant Orange: the neurotic genius of dutch soccer.
    WINNER, David.
    $75.00
    Woodstock & NY: Overlook Press (2002). First edition. 276 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.
  • Recollections of the Great War.
    WINTON, David J.
    $85.00
    (np): (np) (1976). First edition. xii + 155 pp. Near fine in full decorated cloth with light foxing to top edge, and a small smudge to fore-edge. No dust jacket, as issued. Foreword by Rowland Evans Jr. Illustrated, one fold-out map. SIGNED by Winton on the first leaf. Memoir by this winner of the Distinguished Service Cross, who shipped off to France in June 1917.
  • Minimum of Two and Other Stories.
    WINTON, Tim.
    $20.00
    London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1988). First UK edition. 153 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
  • Half a Tourist.
    WITKOWSKI, Annie.
    $45.00
    Rocky Ledge: Cottage Editions (1980). First edition. 4to. 33 pp. Very good plus in side-stapled wrappers. One of 215 (of 225) copies. Cover art by George Schneeman. Poems.
  • Medea: A Modern Retelling.
    WOLF, Christa.
    $75.00
    London: Virago (1998). First UK edition. 186 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Translated from the original German by John Cullen. Introduction by Margaret Atwood. SIGNED by Wolf on a sticker on the half-title page, as per the enclosed letter from Waterstone’s to subscribers of their signed first edition series.
  • In Morocco.
    WOLFE, Michael.
    $45.00
    Berkeley: Sombre Reptiles 1980. First edition. 39 pp. Very near fine in wrappers and integral illustrated dust jacket. One of 400 copies. Title page photograph by Penny Pillatt. Dated (Oct. 3. 1980) and INSCRIBED by Wolfe, “For Leslie, / Thanks for the party; / there’s no place like home. / Love, Michael.” Wolfe’s third book, a journal of his 1979 visit to Morocco, from smoking kif to dining with Paul Bowles.
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities.
    WOLFE, Tom.
    $35.00
    NY: Farrar Straus Giroux (1987). Advance excerpt. 18 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. The first chapter from Wolfe’s then forthcoming novel.
  • Bad Debts.
    WOLFF, Geoffrey.
    $125.00
    NY: Simon and Schuster (1969). First edition. 221 pp. Small stain on fore-edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket. INSCRIBED by Wolff, “For Herb Gold - / with respect / and admiration / and thanks / Geoffrey Wolff / Ofctober 1969.” Wolff’s first book, with Gold’s assessment on the front flap, “BAD DEBTS is horrifying, funny, and ultimately very touching.”
  • Taormina.
    WOODBERRY, George E.
    $75.00
    NY: Columbia University Press, 1926. First edition. x + 55 pp. Short closed tear at crown, else fine in printed wrappers. Introductory note by John Erskine. First separate appearance of this essay that appeared originally in Century Magazine in 1893. Poet Woodberry appreciates more than most travel writers of the day.
  • The Motive Key.
    WOODFORD, Jack.
    $125.00
    Buffalo: Dawn Press, 1956. Second edition. 223 pp. A few light spots of foxing on top edge, else very near fine in two completely different dust jackets, one with a $2.00 printed price and the other with a $2.50 printed price. Originally published in 1932 with the title FIND THE MOTIVE, and reprinted here in bowdlerized form.
  • Loving Ladies to Maine and back & beyond.
    WOOLF, Douglas.
    $20.00
    Minneapolis: Zelot (1986). First edition. [48 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. A selection from an autobiographical novel, “concerning mainly one of my daughters, one of my wives, and one of my mothers.”
  • Signs of a Migrant Worrier.
    WOOLF, Douglas.
    $45.00
    Eugene: Coyote’s Journal, 1965. First edition. x + 75 pp. Fine in printed wrappers. A collection of seven stories, issued as Coyote Books #3.
  • Letters.
    WOOLF, Virginia and Lytton Strachey.
    $250.00
    London: Hogarth Press/Chatto and Windus (1956). First edition. 118 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the top edge of the rear panel. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Kirkpatrick A32a.
  • Orlando: A Biography.
    WOOLF, Virginia.
    $7,500.00
    NY: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First US edition, numbered & signed issue. 333 pp. Fine in full black cloth with gilt stamping to spine and front panel. t.e.g. No dust jacket, as issued. One of 800 (of 861) numbered copies SIGNED by Woolf in lavender ink. Kirkpatrick A11a.
  • The Captain’s Death Bed and other Essays.
    WOOLF, Virginia.
    $85.00
    NY: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1950). First edition. viii + 248 pp. Very near fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny tear to the base of spine. Leonard Woolf contributes an introductory note. Kirkpatrick A30a.
  • Rising, Falling, Hovering.
    WRIGHT, C.D.
    $50.00
    Port Townsend: Copper Canyon (2008). First edition. viii + 97 pp w/notes. Fine in fine dust jacket. Briefly INSCRIBED by Wright on the title page.
  • Xionia.
    WRIGHT, Charles.
    $125.00
    Iowa City: Windhover Press (1990). First edition. 4to. 38 pp w/notes. Fine in paper-covered boards with cloth spine and printed label. One of 250 copies on Iyo handmade Japanese paper SIGNED by Wright. Berger 98.
  • No Siege is Absolute: Versions of René Char.
    WRIGHT, Franz.
    $125.00
    Providence: Lost Roads 1984. First edition. 39 pp. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. Early book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. Lost Roads 24.
  • A Reply to Matthew Arnold
    WRIGHT, James.
    $20.00
    Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition. 19 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 478 (of 500) copies on Classic Text. Nine poems.
  • Leave it to the Sunlight.
    WRIGHT, James.
    $75.00
    Durango: Logbridge-Rhodes (1981). First edition, numbered issue. 17 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 22 numbered copies on Classic Text in handmade paper wrappers. A collection of ten poems.
  • The Green Wall.
    WRIGHT, James.
    $450.00
    New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957. First edition. xix + 93 pp. Very near fine in like dust jacket with a sliver of toning along top edge. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Wright’s first book, issued as the 53rd volume in the Yale Series of Younger Poets.