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See More... Wells, Gabriel THE RIDDLE OF BEING.
A Theory of Correlativity New York Privately Printed 1934 8vo. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards 26, (2) pages
A philosophy theory proposed by Gabriel Wells about the "World Riddle" or the puzzle of life. Booksellers ticket for Dinkytown Antiquarian Bookstore on back paste-down endpaper. Slight shelf wear.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96784

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  West, James L. W. AMERICAN AUTHORS AND THE LITERARY MARKETPLACE SINCE 1900.
Philadilphia University of Pennsylvania Press (1988) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 172 pages.
First edition. An interesting study of authors and the effect of commercial pressures on their work. Discusses authorship and publishing in general and then goes on to look at distribution, the editor and agent, the magazine market, subsidiary rights and blockbusters.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 24724

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  (Whitman, Walt) Bowers, Fredson. WHITMAN'S MANUSCRIPTS, LEAVES OF GRASS, (1860), A PARALLEL TEXT.
Chicago The University of Chicago Press (1969) 8vo. cloth. lxxiv, 264 pages.
First edition, third impression. Describes and offers a parallel text to previously unpublished Whitman holograph manuscripts.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 115096

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See More... Whitman, Walt LEAVES OF GRASS
Philadelphia, PA David McKay, Publisher 1891-2 8vo original green cloth, top edge gilt, side & bottom edges untrimmed 438 pages
BAL 21419, Myerson A2.7-d. "Death Bed" edition. Reprint from the slightly altered plates of the Boston 1881-1882 edition. Illustration of Whitman as a young man. Scuffs to top and bottom of spine. Front cover has a minor bump on bottom edge. Ink inscription on first blank page by former owner.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 105554

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See More... Williams, Tennessee MEMOIRS.
Garden City Doubleday & Company 1975 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, author's name gilt-stamped on front board, dust jacket. xix, 264 pages
First edition. Memoirs of Thomas Lanier (Tennessee) Williams. Listing of Williams's works and 144 black and white illustrations. Foreword. Index. Dust jacket torn at edges and at top and bottom of spine.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 108549

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See More... Wilson, Rufus Rockwell NEW YORK IN LITERATURE THE STORY TOLD IN THE LANDMARKS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Elmira The Primavera Press 1947 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 372 pages.
First edition. The author takes the reader through all parts of New York State and talks about the different literary figures who had a part in the location's history. Very fine.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 74341

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See More... Wilson, Rufus Rockwell with Otilie Erickson Wilson NEW YORK IN LITERATURE THE STORY TOLD IN THE LANDMARKS OF TOWN AND COUNTRY.
Elmira The Primavera Press 1947 8vo. cloth. 372 pages.
First edition. The author takes the reader through all parts of New York State and talks about the different literary figures who had a part in the location's history. Inscribed by both authors in 1947 on free endpaper.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 64566

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See More... Wingate, P.J. THE BEASTS OF BIG BUSINESS.
Wilmington Serendipity Press 1984 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 161 pages.
First edition. Illustrated by Jack Jurden and with a foreword by Edward G. Jefferson. Humorous look at business.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 67387

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See More... Winterich, John T. TWENTY-THREE BOOKS & THE STORIES BEHIND THEM
Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott 1939 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 241 pages.
Stories about PARADISE LOST, WAVERLEY, MOBY-DICK, UNCLE REMUS, WALDEN, LITTLE WOMEN, etc. Jacket chipped and spine spotted. Bookplate.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 10895

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See More... Winterich, John T WRITERS IN AMERICA, 1842-1967 AN INFORMAL GLANCE AT SOME OF THE AUTHORS WHO HAVE FLOURISHED SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DAVEY COMPANY, 125 YEARS AGO.
Jersey City The Davey Company (1968) small 4to. cloth, slipcase. viii, 85, (3) pages.
First edition. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel. With chapters reprinting works by Dickens, Hawthorne, Hemingway and Steinbeck.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 10896

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Wolfe, Thomas THE CRISIS IN INDUSTRY.
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina 1919 (but 1978) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, enclosed in cloth-backed boards case with paper cover label, ribbon tied. 14; 3 pages
Facsimile reprint of 1919 first edition which was Wolfe's first publication. Hillsborough: Balingers' Used and Rare Books, limited to 300 numbered copies. With PROLEGOMENA TO THOMAS WOLFE'S A CRISIS IN INDUSTRY by Richard Walser limited to 50 numbered copies printed by hand by Robert A. Nelson at his Zeppelin Press. Case is faded along edges.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 10927

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See More... Wolfe, Thomas THE CRISIS IN INDUSTRY.
Chapel Hill University of North Carolina 1919 (but 1978) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 14; 3 pages.
Facsimile reprint of 1919 first edition which was Wolfe's first publication. Hillsborough: Balingers' Used and Rare Books, limited to 300 numbered copies. With PROLEGOMENA TO THOMAS WOLFE'S A CRISIS IN INDUSTRY by Richard Walser loosely inserted.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 100600

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  (Wolfe, Thomas) Johnson, Pamela Hansford THOMAS WOLFE,A CRITICAL STUDY.
London William Heinemann Ltd (1947) large 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 138 pages.
Excellent critical study of the work of Wolfe. Captures the soul and spirit of Thomas Wolfe. Contains a discussion of Wolfe's style and philosophy. Carries the reader over the course of four novels: 'Look Homeward Angel', 'Of Time and the River', 'The Web and the Rock', and 'You Can't Go Home Again'.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 55852

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See More... Wolfe, Thomas THE STORY OF A NOVEL.
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1936 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 93 pages.
First edition, first printing (Johnston A5.1.a1). A fascinating autobiographical history of how Wolfe came to be a published author. Minor fading of the spine of the jacket.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 100601

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See More... Woodcock, George GREAT WRITERS STUDENT LIBRARY 20TH-CENTURY FICTION
New York Macmillan Press (1983) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (viii), 781+ (1) pages
Individual entries on over 300 hundred writers with short biography and complete book lists. Includes greats like Beckett, Joyce, and Conrad. Spine slightly faded, minor wear to both covers.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 91775

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See More... Wootten, Rev. John W. POEMS.
N.P. n.p. 1962 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 108 pages
Wootten was born in Gumboro, Delaware and minister in New Castle from 1946-1949. Prolog (sic) by The Rev. Milton H. Keene. Signed by the author. Foxed.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 72796

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See More... (Wright, Richard) Knipp, Thomas (editor) RICHARD WRIGHT, LETTERS TO JOE C. BROWN
Kent Kent State University Library 1968 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages.
Number 1 of the Occasional Papers.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 7027

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See More... (Wyeth, Andrew) Bradford, Alison Kimball POEMS: 1944-1961.
N.P. Wilmington Poetry Society & Delaware Writers Inc. 1961 8vo. boards 31+(1) pages.
Limited to 300 copies. With a cover design by Andrew Wyeth and an introduction by David Hudson.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 66429

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See More... (Yellow Barn Press) JULIAN SYMONS REMEMBERED, TRIBUTES FROM FRIENDS. COLLECTED BY JACK WALSDORF AND KATHLEEN SYMONS.
Council Bluffs, IA The Yellow Barn Press (1996) 8vo. cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label. xi, 55, (3) pages.
Limited to 225 numbered copies. Includes 25 tributes including ones by Simon Brett, P.D. James, H.R.F. Keating, Alan Ross, George Sims and others. Printed by hand by Neil Shaver at his private press. A lovingly produced tribute.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 44687

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See More... (Young, Andrew.) Norris, Leslie (compiler) ANDREW YOUNG
Remembrance & Homage (Cranberry Isles, ME) The Tidal Press 1978 8vo. cloth, dust jacket (x), 63, (3) pages
Limited to 1250 copies. An introduction by Leslie Norris, seven poems by Andrew Young with six illustrations by Charles E. Wadsworth, and thirteen poems in homage to Andrew Young by poets such as John Arlott, Richard Church, and Edmund Blunden. A letter from Charles Wadsworth to Doris Grumbach date February 15, 1979 loosely laid-in. Spine faded. Slight shelf wear.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 96957

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