Search Results: Titles starting with W from DuBois Rare Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 208 p. 21 cm. Black cloth over boards, white lettering to spine and front cover. Book Condition: very near fine; with gentle pushed spine ends, brilliant fresh yellow top stained edge, clean and unmarred text block; likely unread. Dust Jacket Condition: Notoriously fragile jacket bright and fresh with light wear to extremities, rubbing to panels, small closed tear to rear panel at top edge. Theroux's first book.

London: The Wallpaper* Group, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover. Very Good. 234pp. illus. many color. 30cm. Tall 4to. Softcover. Perfectbound Magazine. The famous full lenticular cover. Book Condition: Very good. Torn at foot of spine, creasing to corner of lower cover, wear to extremities. Lenticular cover very bright and vibrant, interior unmarred. The Global Style Special. Content includes: Studio Lines, Andreas Gursky, The technocrafters, Hollin Hills, Neon accessories, Dining tables, and Hanoi.

Monte Carlo/Boston: André Sauret/Boston Book and Art Shop, 1963. Lithograph. Fine. Original stone lithograph in black on stiff wove stock. 12.5" × 9.5". Printed by the Atelier Mourlot, Paris and featured in the second volume of Chagall's Catalogue Raisone: Chagall Lithographs II, edited by Andre Sauret and published in 1963. Print condition: Fine, bright, fresh; a pristine print.

New York: Harper & Row, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 309 p. 22 cm. 8to. Publisher's original blue cloth, black title box with gilt spine lettering. Book Condition: Gently pushed spine ends else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: A few nics to the edges, spine toned, red crayon marking to front cover.

New York: Knopf, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 336pp. Hardcover. Octavo. Signed by author.

New York: Random House, 1994. Advance Uncorrected Proof/First Edition, First Printing. Wraps/Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 253 p. 8to. Laminated blue patterned wraps. Initials in felt tip on ffep else fine. Signed by author on title page. Plus: 1st printing of first trade edition. Book Condition: Date in fine hand on ffep, spine ends pushed, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Mild wear to extremities with a few crinkles at the edges. A sharp, signed set.

Saint Paul, Minn: Graywolf Press, 2004. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

New York: A Demeter Press, Book Quadrangle, The New York Times Book Company, 1976. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. xiii, 176 p. : Ill ; 23 cm. Hardcover. The skinny top and bottom of the cloth a little grotty, as is the jacket. Top, fore and bottom text block edges speckled. Interior of book pristine, unread even, while the light colored jacket (lemon yellow) shows dirt but v. little wear. Birds that have the good fortune to reside where fruit is plentiful basically do not have to work for a living. That is to say while their unlucky cousins to the north are more or less looking for fruit 24/7/365, those in the tropical zones can barely fly across town without getting bonked on the head with a pound or so of your ripest and sweetest. So. What do the male birds in the tropics have to worry about? Well, they need to have great big colorful plumage, ginormous beaks, crazy colors or some such if they want to be in the game when it comes to the females. Can't be easy to just sit around and try… Read More

New York: Canongate, 2005. First Printing of First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. xvi, 151 pages ; 21 cm.

Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service with the cooperation of the United States Geological Survey, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Photo Illustrated Wraps. Near Fine. 118 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. Prepared in conjunction with an exhibition presented by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good. 32 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Book condition: spine and edges abraded, covers creased; rounded corners; binding sound with no splitting along spine-the usual fatal flaw...interior unmarked and unmarred. A rare first printing, "A companion and supplement to a booklet issued earlier by the Museum of Modern Art, What is modern design?" "Introductory series to the modern arts, 4."

New York: Random House, 1991. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quarterbound burgundy cloth and green paper over boards gilt spine lettering. A small amount of rubbing to the DJ. One 1/16th inch crinkle to top of DJ near spine else Fine.

Berkeley: Tuumba Press ; Distributed by Small Press Distribution, 2006. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Fine. 226 pages ; 23 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Fine. A nice association warmly inscribed by Bill Berkson to Brigid Berlin, artist and Warhol superstar: "For Brigid, my "tell-all"...Love, Bill" Provenance: Purchased at the Doyle auction of Brigid Berlin's estate on 4/26/2022. "In or around 1977, Bernadette Mayer and Bill Berkson initiated a correspondence that eventually centered on question-and-answer exchanges usually folded inside accompanying cover letters. The candor and intensity of these epistolary interviews was sustained well into the mid 1980s. Included are intimate musings on everyday life, childhood, marriage, sex, poetry and other arts, cooking, weather, house-and-garden details, fashion, politics, philosophy, time, identity, morality, and much else besides... it is the bulk of that early, high-intensity phase that the present volume… Read More

New York: Black Sparrow Press, 1969. First edition, wrappered issue, one of 1500 copies. Wraps. Very Good. 113 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound glossy illustrated wraps. Book Condition: Very Good with crease to front cover and light soiling to lower cover, else fine. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Notes: A poem. Originally appeared in the Hasty papers "This book is published in three editions: 1500 copies in paper wrappers; 200 copies handbound in boards signed by the author & artist; & 5 special copies in a portfolio with an original collage by Larry Rivers, signed by the author & artist"--Colophon.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Printing with full number line of Simon & Schuster Classic Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 268 pages ; 25 cm. Simon & Schuster celebrates 75 years in business with new editions of classics from their past- Mary Higgins Clark's first book being one. Publisher's press release from 1999 laid-in, also laid-in: publisher's fancy invitation to April 13th, 1999 actual Simon and Schuster 75th anniversary party at The Metropolitan (long since closed).

New York: Viking Press, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. 274pp. 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth and paper over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: covers are a little sunned at the edges, slightly cocked. Dust Jacket Condition: a bright, brilliant cover with a crease, closed tear to the bottom of the rear panel, and small nicks here and there. More than presentable.

New York: Viking Press, 1974. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/Very Good +.

Nashville: Broadman Press, 1962. First Edition, First Printing. Near Fine/Very Good+. 112pp. 20cm. Thin 8vo. Hardcover. Publisher's original forest greeb cloth over boards, silver lettering to spine. Book Condition: faint signs of handling, else fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good at least; light wear to the extremities, teeny nicks, curlings, and creasings to edges. An extraordinary copy of a book that is scarce to the the trade. The author has warmly inscribed and dated the ffep, signed the title page and added reference to a bible verse, glued in an original typescript of her poem "Beauty", and pasted another devotional offering to the end page! An overflowing of devotional good wishes from the author to the lucky recipient all still present and in lovely condition. Near Fine in Very Good + dust jacket. Hardcover. "A Mississippi native, Appleby went to OBU and Oklahoma State University. She was the first person to respond to the call to missions at Falls Creek Baptist Assembly. Oklahoma… Read More

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Lacking. vii., 408 pp.; 23 cm. Hardcover. Publisher's original cloth over boards, gilt lettering to spine and upper cover. Book Condition: spine ends show tiny nick to tail end, a nick and a frazzle to head; gilt lettering completely worn off of spine; and in spots on the upper cover, corners bend with a ding or two to covers; pages toned slightly. However, binding is very sound, text block unmarred, and all in all the book presents well. Dust Jacket Condition: lacking. Edited by Charles A. Beard; various great thinkers each contribute a chapter in their area of expertise-Bertrand Russell, Willem Van Loon, Lewis Mumford, Carl Van Doren and a dozen others each take on a topic of civilization.

New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Wraps. Very Good +. 263 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm. Softcover. Perfectbound wraps. Dog-eared corners to front panel else fine. This catalog published on the Occasion of the Exhibition Held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 25 February - 30 May 2010 "Biennial Exhibition 2010" curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari.