Search Results: Authors starting with W from Great Northern Books

Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 1998. First printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass's Selected Translations offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs gleaned from more than 500 years of Western tradition." [from publisher] Slight edgewear to cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2006. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. New. First printing. "Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections." [from publisher]

New York: Charles Boni , 1930. First printing. Trade Paperback. Ex-Library. Edited by Charles A. Wagner, with an introduction by Mark Van Doren. The winning poems in contests conducted by Poetry, the Dial, the Nation and other periodicals, 1913-1929. Cover, title page, and endpapers illustrated by Rockwell Kent. Ex-library with usual markings, still a good reading copy.

Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1977. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Wakoski is primarily associated with the deep image poets, as well as the confessional and Beat poets of the 1960s." [Wikipedia] Includes black & white photograph of Wakoski. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988. Second printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Includes most of the poems from each of Walcott's seven prior books of verse and all of his long autobiographical poem. Includes bibliographical references and index. Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Walcott's eighth collection of poems. Walcott won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992. A clean, unmarked copy.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. "Through close readings of poems from the entire range of both poets' careers, the author reveals the pivotal role of Stevens and Williams in the shift from modernism to postmodernism." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Random House, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Walker's first book.

Minneapolis: Walkup Typesetting Company, 1948:June. First edition. Spiral-bound. Near Fine. Trade catalogue, spiral bound. A clean, unmarked copy.

Minneapolis: Walkup Typesetting Company, 1948:June. First edition. Spiral-bound. Very Good. Trade catalogue, spiral bound. A clean, unmarked copy.

Minneapolis: Walkup Typesetting Company, 1948:June. First edition. Spiral-bound. Near Fine. Trade catalogue, spiral bound. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Conde Nast Publications, 2009:December 14. First appearance. Periodical. Very Good . A complete issue of the "New Yorker," containing the first appearance of "All That," the uncollected short story that was originally meant for "The Pale King," but didn't make it into the published version. The word "Loft" written in ink on the front cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Conde Nast Publications, 2009:March 9. First appearance. Periodical. Very Good +. A complete issue of the "New Yorker," containing the first appearance of "Wiggle Room," an excerpt from Wallace’s novel, "The Pale King." Also includes the article, "The Unfinished : David Foster Wallace's Struggle to Surpass 'Infite Jest,'" by D.T. Max, illustrated with a full page color portrait by Philip Burke. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Back Bay Books, 2012:April. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. First printing. The last, and unfinished novel, by the late author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System." Includes four new chapters not included in the first edition as well as "Notes and Asides," "About the Author." and "Reading Group Guide." A clean, unmarked copy.

Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. A collection of essays by the late author of "Infinite Jest" and "The Broom of the System." A clean, unmarked copy.

Morristown, NJ: Print of the Daily Record, 1916. Staplebound pamphlet. Ex-Library. Also includes advertisement leaflet. Only five libraries listed as holding in WorldCat. Ex-library with minimal markings, non external.

1933: Little, Brown and Co., 1933. Early reprint. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Wlan provides "an insiders look at Chinese culture and customs in a time of change following the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty." [from Wikipedia] Includes a bright color frontis and 15 black & white illustrations by C. Leroy Baldridge, noted American leftist and illustrator of such books as 'Brinker and the Silver Skates' and 'White Africans and Black.' Ex-library with minimal markings, not affecting the text.

New York: Arno Press, 1969. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Reprint of 1876 edition, published by Chatto and Windus. Includes additional materials prepared by James Dallaway; further revisions and added notes and numerous new ilustrations by Ralph N. Wornum. The work was further augmented by Frederick W. Hilles and Philip B. Daghlian, who collected hitherto unpublished manuscripts by Walpole, published as, "Anecdotes of Painting in England 1760-1795," published in 1937 and is included as the fourth volume of Arno's uniformly bound edition. [from publisher]

New York: Penguin Press, 2018. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. A history of the Boston underground music scene in the 60s with a focus on Van Morrison and the recording of the album, "Astral Weeks." Includes black & white photographs, index, bibliography, and discography.

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1995. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. "The Dark Room" was was shortlisted for a CWA Gold Dagger Award and adapted for television in 1999, by the BBC. A clean, unmarked copy.