Search Results: Titles starting with W from Philip Smith, Bookseller

Staten Island, NY: Student Association of Wagner College, 1962. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 146 pp, printed wrappers. Publisher's leaflet laid in. Third issue, a fine cross-section and overview of the American avant-garde in 1962, edited by a pre-Warhol Gerard Malanga (Faculty Editor was Willard Maas, who was the basis of the male protagonist of Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"). Albee mentions that he is in the process of writing that play in the course of the interview printed herein. Also features an illustrated homage to Maya Deren by Mark McCloskey. Unmarked copy with a bit of wear to front cover.

Sarnia, Ontario: Wagtail, 1970. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 24pp, stapled wrappers. Rare issue of this uncommon underground poetry magazine from 1970 Ontario. Includes Douglas Blazek and other noteworthy contributors. Unmarked copy, light outer wear.

New York: Wake Editions, 1951. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 112pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this postwar little magazine. Issue leads with eight drawings by Saul Steinberg and includes work by cummings, Levertov, many others. Unmarked copy, light toning and spotting to covers from staple rust.

New York: Wake Editions, 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 128pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Includes a 10-page letter from Malcolm Lowry. Woolmer C57. Unmarked copy, light toning to covers.

New York: Wake Editions, 1953. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 148pp, printed wrappers. Contains a number of Alfred Jarry selections translated by Roger Shattuck, also Pirandello, Kazantzakis, Cocteau, Apollinaire, Henri Michaux, et al. Unmarked Near VG copy, a bit of waviness to text block.

Cambridge, MA: The Harvard Wake, 1945. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 58pp, stapled wrappers. Scarce wartime issue of this important 1940s literary magazine from Cambridge. Unmarked copy with general wear and some abrasion to spine.

New York: Wake Editions, 1946. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). Near VG. 8vo, 96pp (plus plates), printed wrappers. Special E. E. Cummings number, with writing by and about him by a range of prominent contributors. Also includes Robert Creeley's first published poem ("Return"). Unmarked copy with general wear and toning (spine browned).

Cambridge, MA: Wake, 1948. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. This issue includes John Hawkes as an editor and includes a preliminary extract from his first novel, The Cannibal (published the following year). Unmarked copy with a little cover soil and toning.

New York: Wake Editions, 1948. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 104pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this late 1940s little magazine. Includes very early work by Robert Creeley, plus Henry Miller and other prominent contributors. Two initials joined by a Cupid's arrow drawn on cover (no other markings), about 5 pages have small (1/4") closed tears at the lower margin.

New York: Wake Editions, 1949. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 136pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this late 1940s little magazine. Includes Paul Bowles, Cummings, Williams, Brecht, and other prominent contributors. Unmarked copy, a bit of edge wear and cover soil.

New York: Wake Editions, 1950. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG. 8vo, 128pp, printed wrappers. Another exceptional issue of this postwar little magazine. Includes prominent contributors as well as early work by "New Writers" Robert Creeley, Jackson Mac Low, et al. Unmarked copy, toning and soil to spine and marks to back cover from staple rust.

Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 2000. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 24pp, stapled wrappers. 1 of 100 stated copies. This rare poetry magazine from Fresno includes work by Alfred Starr Hamilton et al. Unmarked copy, very minor wear.

Fresno, CA: Wake Up Heavy, 2001. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 4to, 12pp, stapled wrappers. Number 36 of 75 numbered copies. This rare poetry magazine from Fresno includes work by Eileen Myles et al. Unmarked copy, very minor wear.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1964. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Early (but not first) printing of the first edition. VG in VG dw. 8vo, [viii]+312pp, light blue cloth with spine stamped in black and gold, printed dustwrapper. A clean copy (no markings) with slight bumping to edges; mylar-protected jacket has 0164 dateline and is not price-clipped and has a few small edge losses to spine and back cover.

Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. A clean copy of this trade paper edition of Charles Williams's classic first novel, originally published in 1930. Treats of occult subjects with unusual insight. Unmarked copy, minor reading wear.

Hull, England: The Sonus Press, 1971. 1st edition. Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Near Fine. 8vo, [ii]+34pp, stapled wrappers. Uncommon underground literary magazine from 1971 Hull, "hand printed" with a range of noteworthy contributors. Unmarked copy with very minor outer wear.

Detroit: Wayne State University, 1963. 1st edition. Soft cover. Good /No Jacket (as issued). Good+. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Rare 1963 literary magazine from Wayne State University, includes pre-Detroit Artists Workshop work by Robin Eichele (who is named as Poetry Editor and contributes five poems) and other students associated with Wayne State University. Has an early psychedelic feel in its design, including art by Lee Brown Coye reproduced from works by August Derleth. Unmarked copy, a bit of cover/edge staining.

Los Angeles and Albany, NY: The Double Pelican, 1982. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, 182pp, printed wrappers. Fourth issue of this literary magazine with Hermetic leanings: includes a 28-page selection from Charles Doria and Dick Higgins's translation of "On the Composition of Images, Signs and Ideas" by Giordano Bruno (9 years before it was published in book form), as well as work by Robert Duncan, Clark Coolidge, George Quasha, Charles Stein, Edward Dorn, Bob Perelman, Charles Bernstein, et al. Unmarked copy, light cover wear.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Double Pelican, 1975. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, about 144pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of this adventurous seventies poetry magazine, contains passages from Cage's "Empty Words" (before book publication). Tight and unmarked copy, a bit of cover wear.

Bloomington, Indiana: The Double Pelican, 1976. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket (as issued). VG+. 8vo, about 144pp, printed wrappers. Obliquely numbered (as two squared) third issue of this adventurous seventies poetry magazine. Unmarked copy, light wear to covers.