Search Results: Authors starting with W from Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

New York: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1975. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Ngugi wa Thuing'o on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light rubbing at tips. In a Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing and light edge wear, price intact. A collection of 13 stories by the African author, including earlier works written while still a student at Makerere Univeristy in the early 1960s.

Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College, 1966. First edition. First edition. [vi], [30] pp. Bound in publisher's side-stapled wraps. Near Fine with light wear, toned with age, slight corner crease to contents. A mimeographed booklet civil rights for a conference on civil rights at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Includes "Notes from an Alienated White," quotes from Langston Hughes and "Negro Churchmen." The uncredited cover image is the famed Danny Lyon photograph from the March on Washington, best known from the SNCC "Now" poster. A program for the conference is not included, but according to the college's annual report, Jesse Jackson and Floyd McKissick were among the speakers. Scarce, a single copy located in OCLC search.

[Detroit]: Perpetual Soul Saving Mission for All Nations Inc, 1970. Second Edition. Second edition. [1], 39 pp. Bound in publisher's stapled wraps. Very Good with light staining and light creasing, toning to wraps, rubbing to spine. A soul food cookbook by a renowned Detroit social welfare activist and Pentecostal minister known as Mother Waddles. She was described as "a one-woman war on poverty," offering meals for 35 cents or free, if one could not afford it. Consists of recipes and a few poems.

Paris: Hachette et Cie, 1911. Signed Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Deluxe French limited edition; copy #213 of 340 (of 390 total) signed by Arthur Rackham on the limitation page. Publisher's full vellum binding, stamped in gilt. Near Fine. Boards faintly bowed, bump to top of spine, vellum lightly soiled, bookseller ticket to front paste down. All illustrations and tissue guards present, lacking ribbon ties. A lovely copy of the deluxe French limited edition, which had a much smaller limitation than its British counterpart.

London: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition. Signed by John Wain on the title page in blue ink, inscribed to former owner. [viii], 50, [2] pp. Publisher's illustrated boards. Fine in Fine dust jacket. A book-length poem by the British author and poet known as one of the Angry Young Men and associated with the literary group The Movement.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First Edition. First edition, first impression. Signed by Derek Walcott twice: warm inscription to former owner on front free endpaper, "To Ruth [MacKenzie] / thanks for a very calm and beautiful afternoon at the National Gallery / Henry James Waldo Thoreau Emerson Poe / [signed] Derek /" and signature on half title dated half title dated Oct 21 68. Former owner's name written above signature on front free endpaper. 79 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth-backed patterned boards with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with tiny stain to fore edge, bookstore stamp of The Voice Bookshop in St. Lucia, Very Good dust jacket with rubbed edges, unclipped. The Nobel laureate's first poetry collection to be published outside of the Caribbean, rare signed.

San Francisco: Published by the Author, 1945. Number 1. April, 1945. 3pp. Two side-stapled sheets. Very Good with toning and light wear. An early sci-fi fanzine.

Boulder, CO: Songbird Editions, 1976. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by Anne Waldman in green ink on the title page, with "for new year 1977" added in holograph at rear copyright page. Publisher's side-stapled wraps, with pages printed on rectos only. Very Good with uneven toning to wraps. Faint waviness to pages. One of 150 copies printed.

New York: Angel Hair, 1969. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. First edition. (One of 474 unsigned, unnumbered trade copies, according to the colophon.) 4to. Stapled wraps. Very Good condition.Toning at edges of cover, some edge wear, tiny stains, and dust soiling.

London: The Women's Press, 1986. First British hardcover edition. First British hardcover edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the page following the front free endpaper [vi], 245, [5] pp. Bound in publisher's black cloth with silver spine lettering. Fine, with pages a bit age-toned, in Fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed.

New York: Avon Books, 1993. Paperback. Signed by David Foster Wallace on title page in black ink with his printed name crossed out, dated 3/16. [viii], 467, [2] pp. Bound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Second edition, first printing. About Very Good with creased spine, , slight lean, bumped corners, small stain on fore edge, pages toned with age.The author's first published novel.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Very Good. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author as issued by the publisher. Very Good with wear to covers, small tear to foot of upper spine joint. Type on contact information label to front cover is scribbled out in ink, several pages are wavy. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most important literary works to come out of the 1990s (also known as pre-subsidized time, as the Year of the Depend Adult Undergarment where most of the novel's actions occur is most likely either 2008 or 2009.).

London: Macmillan and Co, 1870. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original green pebbled cloth with covers ruled in blind and spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with bumping to corners, light rubbing at extremities, light wear to spine ends and slight darkening to spine. Inner hinges slightly cracked and tender. Pages toned. A British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. Wallace is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Near Fine with toning to top and bottom board edges, bumped corners, light soiling to front cover and stain to bottom of textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with William T. Vollmann's name misspelled. A lovely copy of the late author's magnum opus and post-modern masterpiece.

Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1997. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing, limited issue. Copy number 11 out of a limited 100 copies, signed by David Faster Wallace on publisher's tipped-in limitation page. Fine in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Wallace's collection of humorous essays detailing "fun" experiences including his time at the Illinois State Fair, a visit to David Lynch's Lost Highway film set and more.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Near Fine with light soiling, light wear to spine and light rubbing to bottom corner of textblock edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with William T. Vollmann's name misspelled and light shelf wear. A lovely copy of the late author's magnum opus and post-modern masterpiece.

Oxford: Mrs. C.L.H. Wallace, 1883. First Edition. First edition. 135, [3], xii pp. Bound in publisher's dark green cloth with elaborate gilt and black stamping, patterned endpapers. Very Good+ with light wear, a few tiny stains to cloth, a few spots of foxing to edges, hinges starting.A scarce vegetarian cookbook with daily recipes, complete with an in-season meal planner, four courses per meal, ("a soup, a savoury course, a sweet course, a cheese course, and a beverage, with all their suitable accompaniments"), with no duplication of recipes. A cook's guide is at the rear detailing the preparation of many of the dishes in the menus. Wallace (1854-1927) was a spiritualist and healer who strongly advocated a vegetarian diet as a cure-all. She also was a crusader against both public vaccination and alcohol.Scarce. Only three copies of this edition located in a recent OCLC Worldcat search.

New York: Viking Penguin Inc, 1987. First Edition. Fine/Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over black spine cloth stamped in metallic turquoise. Toning to pages, else Fine in a like unclipped dust jacket with trivial shelf wear. A lovely copy of David Foster Wallace's first published book.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996. Advance Reading Copy. Near Fine. Advance uncorrected proof of the first edition, signed by the author, as issued by the publisher. Near Fine with light wear to wraps; a beautiful copy. The late author's magnum-opus, and one of the most important literary works to come out of the 1990s (also known as pre-subsidized time).

New York: Atlas Books / W. W. Norton and Company, 2003. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Signed by David Foster Wallace on the title page. Bound in publisher's original blue paper-covered boards over black spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light softening to spine ends, in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing.