Search Results: Titles starting with W from Triolet Rare Books, ABAA

Detroit: Wayne State University Library, 1960. First edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. First edition of this early bibliographical work, issued in conjunction with an exhibition of Snodgrass' works at the Wayne State University Library in 1960. Stapled printed wrappers. 32 pp. One of 250 copies printed. Spine rubbed with some heavy scuffing at the tail, some soiling to covers. An uncommon early Snodgrass item.

New York: Grove Press, 1954. First English language edition. 61 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind, silver and copper, with the dust jacket. Jacket spine a bit browned, as usually seen, with some very slight edgewear to the top edge and lower spine edge; book is close to fine. An excellent copy, far better than usual. The original French language edition was published two years prior; the Faber edition was published two years later.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A fine copy in a fine jacket, with review slip and glossy photograph of the author laid in.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. First edition. Original wrappers. Near fine. First edition, uncorrected proof. 75 pp. Original perfect-bound printed wrappers. Some minor handling wear. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

San Francisco: White Rabbit Press, 1958. First edition. [10] pp. String-sewn wrappers. Several ring stains and a burn mark on the front cover, which bleeds through to the next two leaves, very good. Runic cover design and illustration by Robert Duncan. Borregaard's first book, and an early White Rabbit title. Johnston A4.

New York: W.W. Norton, 1977. First edition. 149 pp. Blue cloth backstrip over blue paper boards, with the dust jacket. Slight edgewear to jacket spine head and tail, bottom corner of front flap clipped (as common with Norton books from the era). Board edges a little sunned. O'Brien's first book, a classic Los Angeles novel. Darcy O'Brien (1939-1998) was the son of the movie stars George O'Brien and Marguerite Churchill, and this book is a thinly disguised look at growing up in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Reissued by New York Review Books in 2001, the first edition is somewhat uncommon.

Portland, ME: The Mosher Press, 1936. First edition. Blue paper boards, title label on front board. An about fine copy in the original publisher's glassine, which is chipped in spots. Inscribed by the translator, Edna Worthley Underwood, on the free front endpaper.

Los Angeles: Sherwood Press, 1983. First edition. [32] pp. Stapled wrappers (cover photos by Sheree Levin). Staples a little rusty, top edge a bit foxed. A collection of poems, published by the poet David Trinidad's Sherwood Press. Inscribed by Flanagan on the title-page, "these things are not metaphors." Laid in are the elaborate invitation to the book's publication party at Beyond Baroque, and two photocopied poems, both titled "Fuck Sonnet," though different poems, each inscribed by Flanagan and dated 2-6-84.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First edition. 77 pp. Full deep rose cloth, lettered in gilt and blind, with the dust jacket. Slight toning to jacket verso, small crease to top edge of rear jacket panel, near fine. An important collection, winner of the National Book Award. Inscribed by Levine on the half-title and signed on the title-page.

Cambridge: Barbara Matteau Editions, 1995. First edition. Original wrappers. Fine. 53 pp. Perfect-bound printed wrappers. Fine copy of the poet's first book, signed on the half-title.

Merion, PA: Albert C. Barnes, 1945. First edition. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Single sheet, folded to make [4] pages. A typically Barnesian rant regarding the local newspapers' response to Barnes's pamphlet, "Sabotage of Public Education in Philadelphia." Small nick to fore-edge, else fine. WorldCat locates two copies, at Temple and the Barnes Foundation.

London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition thus, and first trade edition. ix, 115 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, design by Sturge Moore. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, spine gilt dulled, first gathering a bit loose. Browning to preliminary and concluding leaves, and pp. 14-15 from previously laid-in newsprint. The Cuala Press limited edition was published two years earlier; this collection is much revised and expanded, and includes two of Yeats' most important poems, "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," not included in the original publication. Bookplates of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks on the front pastedown.

London: Faber and Faber, 1997. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. 160 pp. Glossy printed wrappers, a paperback original. Lower front corner very slightly rubbed, still a just about fine copy. An early Carson appearance in book form.

Brooklyn: Terry Carr, ed, 1966. Original wrappers. Very good +. Terry Carr, ed., for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association. Side-stapled mimeo, printed on recto and verso. 89 pp. Also includes work by Thomas Disch, Gina Clarke, and others. Cover illustration by Jack Gaughan. Spine edges a bit chipped with one short closed tear, some minor browning and surface wear to covers. Dick's essay was later included in the 1996 collection The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings.

New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2004. First edition. 136 pp. Black cloth boards, lettered in blind on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. Curated by David Whitney. Texts by Richard Schiff, Edy De Wilde & Tom Ferrara. Interviews with de Kooning from various years by Storm de Hirsch, Selden Rodman, David Sylvester, Harold Rosenberg and Gaby Rodgers. Lavishly illustrated with color plates and black and white photographs. The exhibition was held April 24-June 19, 2004. Slight shelfwear to jacket, about fine.

Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. One of 400 hardcover copies printed, of which 100 were signed by Gass; this copy one of 300 unsigned. Published as TriQuarterly Supplement #2. Original black cloth with photos inlaid on front and rear boards, no jacket as issued. Printed on varying papers of different colors and weights. Designed by Lawrence Levy. Extremely slight sunning to spine and top edge, but still a fine copy of an extravagant book.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Near Fine. First edition of the first book by this former poet laureate of Alaska. A clean copy in wraps with a touch of surface wear and some slight spotting on the top edge. Signed by Haines on the title-page.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First edition. Paperback. Fine. First edition of the first book by this former poet laureate of Alaska. A clean copy in wraps with a touch of surface wear.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Green cloth, lettered in silver on the spine, with the dust jacket. 200 pp. Cloth a bit stained at heel of spine, jacket price-clipped with some light chipping to the head of the spine and some foxing to the rear panel. McLeod A5, preceding the American edition, which was published in a slightly different form and won the National Book Award.

New York: Luhring Augustine Gallery, 1990. First edition. Stapled wrappers. [24] pp. Catalogue of an exhibition July 5 to September 12, 1990 at Luhring Augustine Gallery. Fine copy.