Search Results: Authors starting with W from Carpetbagger Books, IOBA

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (stickered at $9.95). Brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of poems that finds inspiration from the stories and songs of the Kutenai, Nez Perce, Coeur d'Alene, Lillooet, Cathlamet, Coos, Chinook, Nootka, Kwakiutl, Haida, Tsimashian, and Tlingit.

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Wagoner on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped (no price). Purple cloth with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Wagoner's National Book Award-winning collection of poetry.

New York: Philosophical Library, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. Translated by Forrest Williams and Stanley Maron. Very Good in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.75), faded at the spine. Yellow paper on the boards, bumped at the corners, with blue ink lettering and designs on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, former owner's name inside the front board, clean otherwise. As the title implies, this is Wahl's brief account of existential thought through the ages, ending with a critical summation and discussion.

Los Angeles: Fox Searchlight, 2019. Paperback. Fine. A "For Your Consideration" script issued when the movie was nominated for--and won--Best Adapted Screenplay at the Academy Awards. Includes a Preface by Christine Leunens. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Fine. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

New York: Farrar, Straux & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Noonday N 443. Very Good. Wraps generally rubbed, a small closed tear at the top edge of the front wrap, scar on the back from a sticker removal. Square, bound with some reading wear, remaindered at the bottom edge, clean internally. From the Nobel Prize winner, a collection of poems featuring the titular long narrative poem.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.95), soiled at the back panel. Black buckram with silver gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Walker's debut novel about a war vet-turned banker robber, being adapted into a film by Anthony and Joe Russo and starring Tom Holland.

Saint Paul: Graywolf Press, 1988. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Richard Ford on the first page of his story. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. In addition to Ford's story, this includes work from Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver, Stuart Dybek, Charles Baxter, Tim O'Brien, among others.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($4.95), lightly bumped, a short closed tear at the top panel. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The M.I.T. professor's novel about a psychiatrist who has his patients form trios to deliver extrajudicial justice.

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), rubbed and the surface and edges, tidemark on the back panel. Black buckram with orange ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, foxed at the top edge, clean internally. Wallace's thriller novel adapted multiple times to film, including a 1952 production directed by future James Bond director Guy Hamilton.

New York: New American Library, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by editor Maryann Palumbo on the front endpaper. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($11.95), rubbed and bumped at the top edge. Black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, Palumbo's bookplate inside the front board, clean otherwise. Wallace's political thriller in which "sex becomes the ultimate secret weapon" to induce the U.S. president into revealing a national secret.

New York: Softcover Library, Inc, 1966. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Good. Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, creased at the top fold. Firmly bound with a slight forward lean, initials on the first page, a few pages where the fore-edge coloring has bled onto the margins, clean otherwise. A work that answers the question "Do those Swedish girls make good wives, or are they only good for a night in bed?

New York: Warner, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Inscribed by Waller on the half-title page. About Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95). Green paper on the spine, pushed at the head and foot, with light brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Waller's classic Midwestern love story between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian bride living in southern Iowa, adapted into the 1995 Clint Eastwood film starring Eastwood and Meryl Streep.

New York: Warner, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($14.95), bumped at the head of the spine, a strip of fading down the rear spine fold. Green paper on the spine with light brown paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, former owner's bookplate on the front endpaper. Waller's classic Midwestern love story between a National Geographic photographer and an Italian bride living in southern Iowa. Famously adapted into the 1995 Clint Eastwood film starring Eastwood and Meryl Streep.

Ithaca: Ithaca House, 1978. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Inscribed by Walthall on the title page and with textual corrections on a few page. Near Fine. Wraps faintly toned and rubbed. Square and firmly bound, clean internally.

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Very Good. Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally rubbed, faded at the spine, lightly soiled. Pale blue cloth, unevenly soiled on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, clean internally. A juvenile/young adult science fiction novel about exploring the ocean floor.

New York: Beeline Classics | Carlyle Publishing, 1980. First Edition Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. BL5621-V. Very Good. Wraps rubbed at the edges, a scuff at the bottom of the front, a few stains at the back. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Previously published as Three's a Ball.

Sauk City: Arkham House, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near Fine in an about Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($3.00), soiled at the spine, lightly rubbed at the edges. Black buckram, lightly rubbed, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, signature of science fiction author Chad Oliver on the front endpaper, clean internally. A collection of horror and weird tales by the co-founder of Arkham House.

New York: Scribner's, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($26.00). Red cloth with red paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. Winner of the National Book Award in 2017, hailed as reminiscent of Faulkner's AS I LAY DYING, called one of the best books of 2017 by former President Barack Obama.

New York: Bloomsbury, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Signed by Ward on the title page. Fine in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($24.00). White paper on the boards with black ink lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. With Hurricane Katrina building in the Gulf of Mexico, Ward's National Book Award-winning novel tells the story of twelve days in the life of a family fighting for survival.