Search Results: Authors starting with W from Lorne Bair Rare Books

[Chicago]: Industrial Workers of the World, 1955. Quarto (27.25cm.); original green mimeographed staplebound wrappers; 11,[1],12pp.; text printed from typescript; lacking top staple, remnants of previously removed paper label on upper wrapper not affecting text; faint toning along fold lines of rear wrapper. Appendix (large tear without loss of meaning) printed on newsprint (offsetting) tipped inside upper cover. Good or better.

New York: Pantheon, 2012. First Edition. First US printing in hardcover of his second memoir in which the author recounts his time at boarding school in Kenya. The Kenya-born Wa Thiong'o has long taught in the US, currently at Cal-Irvine; he is regularly listed as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signed by the author on the title page. A fine copy in like dust jacket.

London: Constable, 1947. First Edition. 12mo. Decorated paper-covered boards with printed title label; 26pp. Slight wear; ink ownership signature ("Alice D. Chamberlayne / Hereford Hill", dated 1960). A Very Good copy.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (22cm). Blue cloth-covered boards, titled and ruled in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt; ix,[1]-324pp. Bright, tight copy with text fresh and unmarked; Very Good or better. Ownership signature to front free endpaper (Anna Brooke Purcell, Richmond, Virginia; dated 1919). Vignettes of Italian travel and residence in Rome by Mary King Waddington, wife of Anglo-French statesman William Henry Waddington, who served as Prime Minister of France from February to December, 1879 and as the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1883 to 1893.

London: Alberta Press, 2002. First Edition. Quarto (25cm.); original white decorative card wrappers; 102pp.; illus. Light shelf-wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog coinciding with a show displaying the works of Conrad Atkinson. Includes contributions by artists and authors in response to the questions: "How does/could/would the withdrawal of art affect the world?" and "Does the answer to the first question reveal ways that art can affect the world or strike a blow on the structures of the world?" OCLC locates 2 copies in North America as of October, 2015, both in California institutions.

Wadsworth, OH: Donning Company, 2013. First Edition. First printing. Landscape format (24cm). Red pictorial paper-covered boards; pictorial endpapers; 112pp; color photographs throughout. Straight and tight, with one or two bumps to edges: Very Good or better. [62618].

Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. First American Edition. Quarto (28.5.cm); yellow/pictorial paper-covered boards in yellow/pictorial dust jacket with identical image and titling, [32pp.]. Text block is clear and sound with only very light handling wear, Fine. Boards slightly worn on edge corners, including those on the spine hinge; soiling on rear board inner margin. Dust jacket has overall yellowing, surface wear and minor soiling. Closed tears present on jacket extremities, with chipping and material loss along the front panel's upper margin and spine. Sticker on front inner flap. Else Very Good. A charming story of the unlikely friendship between a pig, a bird, and a fish, depicted through Waechter's color illustrations. English language version of the German "Wir können noch viel zusammen machen" (1973).

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1954. Octavo (22cm). Green cloth stamped in white, in red and black jacket; xviii,686pp; frontispiece portrait. Ticket of Bull's Head Book Shop, Chapel Hill, NC. Ownership inscription of Julian Mason to f.f.e.p.Cocked, with slight rubbing to extremities, else Near Fine. Jacket rubbed, spine sunned, front flap creased, a few small marginal tears: Very Good.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 288pp. Fine copy in dustwrapper; inscribed and signed by author Waggoner on half-title, "to Brian." Catalog of the 2017 exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Munich/Basle: Ernst Reinhardt, 1967. Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth, grey topstain; [424]pp. Former owner's name and brief pencil annotation to front free endpaper. Straight and sound but faded at spine, with small stain; minor discoloration to endpapers: Very Good.

[n.p.]: Burt Franklin & Co, 1977. Octavo (24cm). Maroon cloth titled in gilt; [xxvi],280pp; black and white illustrations. Very slightly faded at edges, gently cocked: Very Good.

Buffalo: Sum, 1965. First edition. Thin yellow illustrated wraps, stapled; legal-size. Fragile and scarce mimeo magazine begun after the famous Olson, Creeley et al poetry seminars of 1963 in Vancouver, BC. This issue with poetry by Basil Bunting, Tom Raworth, Gael Turnbull, Tom Pickard, Roy Fisher,Charles Tomlinson, John James, Michael Shaer, Mathew Mead, Ansem Hollo, Jm Burns, Andrew Crozier, and John Temple. Acidic paper toned as usual, back cover detached else very good. One of seven issues.

Buffalo, NY: Institute of Further Studies, 1964 - 1969. First Edition. Corrugated cardboard covers, side stapled; small 4to. Complete run of six, the first two not numbered. Fred Wah as editor is assumed as little publication information is given. Contributors include Wah, John Wieners, Charles Olson, John Clarke, Ed Sanders, Albert Glover, Robert Duncan and others. Two with cover art work and one fur pasted on the covers, all now laid in; iss. 1 text pages creased, iss. 3 spine partially split, light toning and generally at least very good. Rare as a set, early issues especially difficult.

New York: St. Martin's Press, [1976]. First American Edition. Octavo (19cm). Original black cloth, in original jacket; plain endpapers; 251pp; publisher's ads to jacket rear and rear flap. Tight, slightly cocked, gently rubbed: Very Good or better. Jacket unclipped (priced $7.95), gently rubbed, else Very Good. Preceded by 1975 UK edition. HUBIN p.419.

London: Macmillan, 1989. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm). Original green paper over boards, in original jacket; plain endpapers; 190pp; ads to rear cover. Lightly rubbed at edges, else Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced £10.95), lightly rubbed: Very Good.

London: Collins Crime Club, 1967. First Edition. 12mo (19cm). Original red and black paper over boards, in original dust jacket; plain endpapers; 224pp; ads to rear and rear flap of jacket. Straight and fresh, lightly rubbed, corners bumped, minor foxing to edges of textblock not affecting pages: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced 16s), spine lightly sunned, edges rubbed, minor tear at head of spine neatly mended with tape to verso: Very Good. HUBIN p.419.

London: Macmillan, 1970. First Edition. First printing. Original light blue paper over boards, in original jacket; plain endpapers; 190pp; publisher's ad to rear cover. Gently rubbed, lightly browned, Very Good; jacket unclipped (priced £1.05 (21s)), lightly rubbed: Very Good. HUBIN p.419.

Buffalo: A. W. Wilgus, 1843. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (17cm). In contemporary tan sheep, with remnants of black leather spine label; plain endpapers; [i]-vi [7]-356pp; frontispiece portrait and folding map of Van Dieman's Land p.353. Pencil ownership signature of A. G. Champlin. A straight copy, leather rubbed and peeling, most of spine label lacking, small loss at head of spine, front pastedown damaged where a bookplate has been removed, joints worn, foxed throughout: Good. Benjamin Wait was exiled to Van Dieman's Land (i.e., Tasmania) for his participation in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837-1838. His wife Maria expended great efforts to free him, getting his original death sentence commuted to transportation and struggling to obtain a pardon for him, but she died shortly after his return to America. This volumes combines his narrative of his experience, taken from letters written to a friend, and an account of Maria's work on his behalf. FERGUSON 3762. HOWES W16. SABIN 100969.… Read More

Baltimore: Maclay, 1993. First, Limited Edition. First Printing. Signed [Total of 18 signatures from all contributers] Octavo (24cm.); maroon boards stamped in silver on cover and spine; acetate dustjacket; silver slipcase; 239pp. Fine copy in a Fine slipcase.

Warrendale, PA: Society of Automotive Engineers, 1998. Octavo (26cm). Orange glazed paper over boards; xxii,332pp; black and white illus. Straight and tight, with spotting to top and fore-edge, else clean: Very Good.