Search Results: Titles starting with W from WhoByBooks

New York: Random House, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A Review Copy with publishers photo and review slip laid in. This is the writers second collection of essays...and "disparate though the subjects of these delightful essays may seem, a unifying, quite conscious theme becomes apparent: the lures and pitfalls of isolation versus the attractions and traumas of what passes for civilization." A presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

New York: Poseidon, 1983. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Excellent novel by the Booker Prize winning writer of Last Orders. This novel was made into a movie, starring Jeremy Irons and Ethan Hawke. A fine book with a remainder stamp on bottom end pages in a fine dust jacket.

Toronto: HarperCollins, 1994. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Dunvegan, Ontario: Cormorant Books, 1997. Soft cover. Fine. A tribute to Adele Wiseman. Selections from her work as well as contributions in honour of Ms. Wiseman by various Canadian literary figures. Presentation copy signed and inscribed by the editor Ms. Greene.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1984. 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. An anthology of 12 western stories by women: Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, Leslie Silko, and others. ump to heel o/w FINE.

London: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1989. Soft cover. Fine.

New York: Viking, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Chatwin's personal selection of his own stories, profiles and travelogues. DJ price clipped, else FINE. INCLUDED: Uncorrected Proof Copy (not signed) of this edition in FINE condition.

London: Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The writer's first book of short stories (prior published work was a volume of poetry). Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart Limited, 1969. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Good. Leo Yerxa. Indian Legends from Labrador. DJ has some edge wear with a few closed tears, GOOD+

New York: Pantheon, 1947. Assumed First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Translated from the French by Sarah Fisher Scott. A 5 cm closed tear to rear at spine with some edge wear. A great reading copy. Probable BCE.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. HCB has slight lean else FINE.

Los Angeles: Wagon & Star Press, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Scarce copy of a fine book of poems by this noted female American writer. Presentation in ink on half title : "For __ [,] may you always where the color of happiness[.] Bernice". Front cover lightly spotted.

United Kingdom: Hutchinson, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. DJ has two small (less than 0.5 cm ) closed tears/edge wear at upper folded corners.

Montreal: Warbrooke Publishers, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. "Sholem Shtern was a poet, essayist, and teacher best known for his novels in verse depicting the life of Jewish immigrants in Canada. He was born in 1906/1907 in Tishevitz, a small town near Lublin, Poland. Shtern emigrated to Canada in 1927. Diagnosed with tuberculosis, he spent almost two years at the Mount Sinai Hospital in the Laurentians. His most well-known work, Dos Vayse Hoyz" or The White House was translated from the Yiddish by Max Rosenfeld and published in 1974. As Rosenfeld points out in his forward, this story is clearly autobiographical -The White House is the hospital that takes care of those who have the dreaded "white disease". A very good copy with showing some edge wear and a 2 cm closed tear at the back. [National Library of Canada]

New York: Viking, 1981. 5th or later Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A very nice tigh copy of this contemporary classic. DJ has very slight eedge wear to heel at spine.

Toronto: Random House of Canada, Limited, 1998. 1st Edition 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Presentation copy signed/inscribed by author.

Toronto: Viking, 1990. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A collection of short stories from this remarkable west coast writer. Warmly inscribed to an obvious acquaintance.

Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/As New. Spanning 50 years (1939 - 1989) selected letters by this noted Canadian poet. Included in book is a Layton Bibliography.

London: Collins, 1963. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. DJ has some light edge wear and is price clipped. Introduction and postscript by Julian Huxley. Rear DJ blurb by Aldous Huxley.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Remainder stamp.