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Catalog 128, W-Z

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329. WALLANT, Edward Lewis. The Pawnbroker. NY: Harcourt Brace World (1961). The author's second book, and the basis for a well-received movie. Wallant died at the age of 36, in 1962, and an annual award was created in his name for the best work of fiction that "has significance for the American Jew." Light creasing to a couple pages; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a couple very short edge tears, the one at the crown internally tape mended.

330. WARREN, Robert Penn. John Brown. The Making of a Martyr. NY: Payson & Clark, 1929. The first book by the author of All the King's Men, and many other important works of fiction, as well as a number of volumes of poetry. This is nonfiction, a biography of the 19th century abolitionist. Printed in an edition of only 500 copies. Small price sticker rear pastedown; cloth corners lightly rubbed; spine cloth a bit dulled; near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Very uncommon.

331. WARREN, Robert Penn. All the King's Men. NY: Random House (1960). The play version of Warren's 1946 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, which had been made into an Academy Award-winning film in 1949. Near fine in a very good, spine-sunned and price-clipped dust jacket.

332. WARREN, Robert Penn. The Legacy of the Civil War. NY: Random House (1961). Nonfiction, subtitled "Meditations on the Centennial." As a Southerner, and one of the key figures in the Southern literary movement called The Fugitives, who looked back to the South's agrarian traditions for their sense of regional culture and identity, Warren's meditations on the centennial of the Civil War would be especially interesting: by 1961, he was more a national literary figure than a regional one, but his roots and his sensibilities arose out of a strongly regional movement derived, in part, from the Confederacy. Signed by the author. Top board edges lightly sunned; else fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket.

333. WARREN, Robert Penn. A Place to Come to. NY: Random House (1977). A novel. Warren is one of the few writers to have been nominated for the National Book Award for poetry, fiction and nonfiction, winning the award once for poetry, and the Pulitzer Prize once for fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine jacket.

334. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

335. WELLS, Rebecca. Little Altars Everywhere. Seattle: Broken Moon Press (1992). Her first book; winner of the Western States Book Award. Only issued in wrappers. Cover splayed; near fine.

336. WELLS, Rebecca. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. (NY): HarperCollins (1996). Her second book, which became a bestseller and the basis for a film. Tiny scrape to front board; still fine in a fine dust jacket. Bookplate signed by the author laid in.

337. WELTY, Eudora. Delta Wedding. NY: Harcourt Brace (1946). Her fourth book, second novel, set at a wedding in Mississippi in the 1920s, portraying the interplay of the various family members and capturing the nuances of their particular Southern manners. Offsetting rear endpages from a newspaper sketch of Welty laid in; near fine in a very good dust jacket with modest rubbing and edge wear. A nice copy of a fragile book.

338. WIDEMAN, John Edgar. A Glance Away. NY: Harcourt Brace (1965). The first book by this award-winning author. A fine copy in a near fine, mildly rubbed dust jacket with a couple tiny edge nicks. A much-nicer-than-usual copy of this important first novel.

339. WIDEMAN, John Edgar. Hurry Home. NY: Harcourt Brace World (1970). His uncommon second book. Discoloration to endpages; minor page edge foxing; mottling to spine cloth. Still about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with several small edge tears.

340. WIDEMAN, John. The Lynchers. NY: HBJ (1973). Wideman's third novel. Offsetting to front flyleaf from a contemporary newspaper review laid in; small nick to cloth upper rear cover; near fine in a fine dust jacket.

341. WIDEMAN, John Edgar. Philadelphia Fire. NY: Holt (1990). A novel based on the Philadelphia Police Department's bombing of the radical African-American group MOVE's headquarters in a bloody standoff that leveled a city block. The second of Wideman's books to receive the PEN Faulkner Award. Inscribed by the author to another writer with "love," and signed "John." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

342. WIDEMAN, John Edgar. Fatheralong. NY: Pantheon (1994). Nonfiction, "a meditation on fathers and sons, race and society." Nominated for the National Book Award. Inscribed by the author to another writer with "love." Fine in a fine dust jacket.

343. WIDEMAN, John Edgar. Two Cities. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. Fiction, connecting Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the two cities that provide the settings for most of Wideman's novels. Inscribed by the author to another writer. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

344. WILEY, Richard. Soldiers in Hiding. Boston/NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1986). His first novel, winner of the PEN Faulkner Award. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

345. WILLIAMS, C.K. Poems 1963-1983. NY: FSG (1988). A collection of poems published the year after he won the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, for Flesh and Blood. Williams also won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Inscribed by the author in 1996. Upper corners tapped; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny corner chip.

346. WILLIAMS, C.K. The Bacchae of Euripides. NY: FSG (1990). The very uncommon hardcover issue of his translation of Euripides. Inscribed by the author in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

347. WILLIAMS, C.K. A Dream of Mind. NY: FSG (1992). A poetry collection that was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Inscribed by the author in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

348. WILLIAMS, C.K. Selected Poems. NY: FSG (1994). Poems spanning the first three decades of his writing, plus 14 new poems. Inscribed by the author in 1996. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

349. WILSON, August. The Piano Lesson. (NY): Dutton (1990). Book club edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play by the acclaimed African-American author. Inscribed by Wilson in 1998. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of small, internally tape-mended edge tears.

350. WILSON, August. Three Plays. (Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press (1991). Collects Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, the first and last of which both won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play in their respective years, and the middle one of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1987 -- a remarkable accomplishment in American drama. With a preface by Wilson. Inscribed by the author in 1994. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

351. WILSON, August. Two Trains Running. (NY): Dutton (1993). The uncommon hardcover edition of this play, which won the American Theater Critics' Association Award for Best Play of the year. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed by Wilson on the front flyleaf. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

352. WILSON, August. Seven Guitars. (NY): Dutton (1996). Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play. Inscribed by the author in 1998. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

353. WILSON, August. Promotional Postcard. Hanover: Dartmouth College, 1998. Promotional postcard publicizing his lecture "Testimony of the Witness." Photo and scheduling info on front; brief bio on back. Signed by Wilson on verso. Fine.

354. -. Another copy, unsigned. Fine.

355. WOLFE, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. NY: FSG (1987). Wolfe's huge, bestselling novel of New York, in which he tried to prove wrong his own dictum that fiction is dead because it can't live up to the weirdness of everyday life. Tiny foredge spot, else fine in a fine dust jacket.

356. WOLFF, Tobias. In Pharaoh's Army. NY: Knopf, 1994. The second volume of the author's memoirs, picking up where This Boy's Life left off and following the author to Vietnam, and chronicling his experiences there. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

357. WRIGHT, Charles. Bloodlines. Middletown: Wesleyan U. Press (1975). The hardcover issue of this early collection of poems -- his third book -- by the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author. Inscribed by the author and signed "C.W." Fine in a fine dust jacket.

358. WRIGHT, James. To a Blossoming Pear Tree. NY: FSG (1977). A poetry collection by the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winner for poetry. Fine in a spine-tanned, else fine dust jacket.

359. WRIGHT, Richard. Native Son. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1940. His landmark second novel, considered by many the most important title in 20th century African-American literature. It was selected by the Book of the Month Club, a rarity at that time for a black writer. Later, Wright's acclaimed and bestselling book Black Boy was also a BOMC selection. As James Baldwin did later, Wright became an expatriate and lived in France because of the ongoing, prevalent racism he encountered in the U.S. A fine copy of the first issue in a near fine, first issue dust jacket with several short, closed edge tears and a couple of light spots to the rear panel.

360. YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. Yevtushenko Poems. NY: Dutton, 1966. An early collection by the acclaimed Russian poet. Inscribed by the author: "To Freedmans/ family/ with one/ condition:/ not to read/ this terrible/ translations." Small nick to crown; else fine in a very good, rubbed and price-clipped dust jacket.

361. YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. Stolen Apples. Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. A review copy of this collection of Yevtushenko's poetry, translated by eight different authors including John Updike, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, James Dickey, Richard Wilbur and Stanley Kunitz. Trace foxing to top edge, else fine in a very good, spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket with light edge wear and internal tape-strengthening to the spine extremities.

362. YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. The Face Behind the Face. NY: Richard Marek (1979). Warmly inscribed by the author on the front flyleaf: "To ____ -/ to the/ most beautiful/ statuette/ of America./ I like you/ much more than/ the giant one./ Yevtushenko." Then again inscribed by the author (to another recipient) on the half title. Embossed ownership stamp on title page; near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

363. YEVTUSHENKO, Yevgeny. The Collected Poems. NY: Henry Holt (1991). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

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