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  • YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE. by Wouk, Herman
    Wouk, Herman
    YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Collins, 1962. dj. Hardcover first edition - His massive novel, the story of the rise of a young novelist from the Kentucky hills. 766 pp.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (prev owner's name, overall edgewear to the dj., chipping at ends of spine.)

    Book ID: 48180
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  • Wouk, Herman
    YOUNGBLOOD HAWKE.

    Edition: First edition.

    Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1962 dj. Hardcover first edition - His massive novel, the story of the rise of a young novelist from the Kentucky hills. 753 pp.

    Condition: Good+ in a good- dust jacket (sunning to the spine of the dj, other rubbing and wear)

    Book ID: 47145
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  • THE WINDS OF WAR (Special Preview Edition.) by Wouk, Herman.
    Wouk, Herman.
    THE WINDS OF WAR (Special Preview Edition.)

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (mass market paperback format. )

    Norman, OK: Pocket Books, (1973.). First edition - Special preview edition for the first paperback version of this massive historical novel of the events leading up to America's involvement in World War II - from the siege of Warsaw, the Battle of Britain, the march on Moscow to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Laid in is a clipping about the coming 18 hours television series based on this novel and starring Robert Mitchum. 1047 pp.

    Condition: Very good- in bright yellow printed covers (usual toning to the pages, creasing to spine.) An uncommon edition of this best-selling novel.

    Book ID: 44983
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  • INSIDE, OUTSIDE. by Wouk, Herman.
    Wouk, Herman.
    INSIDE, OUTSIDE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Little Brown, 1985. dj. Hardcover first edition - An epic novel spanning 60 years of the 20th century, from the 20's and 30's through World War II, the assassination of Kennedy, and to the 1980's. 644 pp. ISBN: 0-316-955043.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.

    Book ID: 42739
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  • RUSH. by Wozencraft, Kim.
    Wozencraft, Kim.
    RUSH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - a novel based on her own experiences as an undercover narcotics officer and the basis of the movie. 260 pp. ISBN: 0-394-576713.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 40005
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  • NOTES FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB. by Wozencraft, Kim.
    Wozencraft, Kim.
    NOTES FROM THE COUNTRY CLUB.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this former undercover narcotics officer, the story of a woman imprisoned for killing her abusive husband. 206 pp. ISBN: 0-395-62892x.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 47598
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  • THE CATCH. by Wozencraft, Kim.
    Wozencraft, Kim.
    THE CATCH.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Doubleday, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second novel by this former undercover narcotics officer, the story of a couple who have been smuggling marijuana for years, but who have now put down roots in upstate New York and want to go straight - after one last trip, which goes very wrong. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-385-485166.

    Condition: Good in good dust jacket (some crinkling to edges of pages, overall light wear, but still tight and clean.)

    Book ID: 48851
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  • CANAAN'S TONGUE. by Wray, John.
    Wray, John.
    CANAAN'S TONGUE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second novel by the prizewinning author of "The Right Hand of Sleep", a writer named by Granta magazine in 2007 as one of America's best novelists. Inspired by the real life story of the notorious outlaw John Murrell and his protege Virgil, this novel, set on the eve of the Civil War, is about a gang of men hunted by both the Union and the Confederacy for dealing in stolen slaves. SIGNED on the title page. 341 pp. ISBN: 1-400040868.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83009
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  • LOWBOY. by Wray, John.
    Wray, John.
    LOWBOY.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's unusual third novel. "Early one morning in New York City, Will Heller, a sixteen-yearold paranoid schizophrenic, gets on an uptown B train alone. Like most people he knows, Will believes the world is being destroyed by climate change; unlike most people, he's convinced he can do something about it., . . the story of Will's fantastic and terrifying odyssey through the city's tunnels, back alleys, and streets in search of Emily Wallace, his one great hope, and of Violet Heller's desperate attempts to locate her son before psychosis claims him completely." In 2007, Wray was named by Granta magazine as one of America's best novelists. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-0374194161.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 82072
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  • HACKS. by Wren, Christopher.
    Wren, Christopher.
    HACKS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Satiric novel of adventure, love and cutthroat journalism set in a backwater African country by a respected and experienced foreign correspondent. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-684814137.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 42001
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  • Wren, M. K.
    WAKE UP, DARLIN COREY.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Ballantine, 1990. Mystery set in Oregon featuring bookstore owner and private investigator Conan Flagg. ISBN: 0-345-350715.

    Condition: Near fine (bookstore stamp on first page.)

    Book ID: 24770
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  • THE SPUR OF PRIDE. by Wren, Percival Christopher Wren (1875 - 1941)
    Wren, Percival Christopher Wren (1875 - 1941)
    THE SPUR OF PRIDE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Hardcover first edition - Adventure novel by the author best known for the classic 'Beau Geste,' set on the Afghan frontier in pre-Mutiny British India. Originally published in the UK under the title 'Man of a Ghost.'

    Condition: Very good in blue cloth with red lettering (spine faded, a hint of spine slant.)

    Book ID: 55574
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  • THANK GOD I'M MANIC: Assorted Essays & Sketches. by Wren, Rosemary.
    Wren, Rosemary.
    THANK GOD I'M MANIC: Assorted Essays & Sketches.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Santa Cruz, California: Rosemary Wren Productions, (1993). SIGNED first edition - A collection of mostly humorous pieces, most rooted in California, illustrated with drawings by the author. SIGNED on the title page. 124 pp. ISBN: 0-963540807.

    Condition: Fine in stiff red covers with white lettering and illustration.

    Book ID: 84133
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • AFTER GREGORY. by Wright, Austin (1922-2003)
    Wright, Austin (1922-2003)
    AFTER GREGORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Dallas TX: Baskerville Publishers, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the author best known for the literate thriller 'Tony and Susan'. "Sometimes indecipherable, often intriguing, this literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel opens with a man writing about his life. The man reveals that he was formerly known as Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, who tried unsuccessfully to drown himself in the Ohio River. Fleeing a past that may have involved the murder of his neighbor with a hammer, he hitches rides east, assuming and discarding aliases along the way. When an eccentric billionaire summons him to his New York office and gives him a grant he can't refuse -…

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    Dallas TX: Baskerville Publishers, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Fifth novel by the author best known for the literate thriller 'Tony and Susan'. "Sometimes indecipherable, often intriguing, this literary and existential mystery-within-a-novel opens with a man writing about his life. The man reveals that he was formerly known as Peter Gregory, a 35-year-old high school English teacher with an ex-wife and kids, who tried unsuccessfully to drown himself in the Ohio River. Fleeing a past that may have involved the murder of his neighbor with a hammer, he hitches rides east, assuming and discarding aliases along the way. When an eccentric billionaire summons him to his New York office and gives him a grant he can't refuse - $30 million to become yet another new person and cut all ties to the past - he becomes the miraculously fortunate Stephen Trace. Unfortunately for Trace, the detritus of Peter Gregory's life keeps resurfacing. Wright skillfully conveys how we choose to elude our pasts rather than face them, molding ourselves into different people for separate occasions." (Kirkus Reviews)" 292 pp. ISBN: -88090912X.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88788
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  • TONY AND SUSAN. by Wright, Austin (1922-2003)
    Wright, Austin (1922-2003)
    TONY AND SUSAN.

    Edition: First thus.

    New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2001) dj. Hardcover - A reissue of this highly praised literate thriller, originally published in 1993: Susan's exhusband sends her a novel - 'Nocturnal Aminals' - which he has finally finished and she becomes caught up in its story of violence and revenge. Basis for the Oscar nominated film "Nocturnal Animals" directed by Tom Ford starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal. This edition includes praise on the dust jacket from such writers as Ian McEwan, Min Jin Lee, Scott Turow and Ruth Rendell (who called it 'absolutely terrifying, beautiful and appalling." 334 pp. ISBN: 978-0446582902.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 69281
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  • Wright, Barbara
    EASY MONEY

    Edition: First printing.

    Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin, 1995. Hardcover first edition - Author's first novel, the story of Jay, who must grow up too soon.

    Condition: F/F (as new, but rm.)

    Book ID: 4754
    Keywords: fiction
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  • NASTY. by Wright, Bret R.
    Wright, Bret R.
    NASTY.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Colorado Springs, CO: Courtney Literary, (2014). SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel. "Adultery pays. Murder doesn't. That is P.I. Nate 'Nasty' Jepson's motto, and he normally makes his living snapping pictures of cheating spouses. When a stranger is brutally shot in the passenger seat of his car, he finds himself in the middle of a gang war between battling triads, as well as a suspect in the murder. " SIGNED on the half title page. Promotional bookmark laid in. 295 pp. ISBN: 978-0991608812.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 89213
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  • THE RENT COLLECTOR. by Wright, Camron.
    Wright, Camron.
    THE RENT COLLECTOR.

    Edition: First printing.

    Salt Lake City: Shadow Mountain, (2012). SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Survival for Ki Lim and Sang Ly is a daily battle at Stung Meanchey, the largest municipal waste dump in all of Cambodia. They make their living scavenging recyclables from the trash. . . Just when things seem worst, Sang Ly learns a secret about the ill-tempered rent collector who comes demanding money - a secret that sets in motion a tide that will change the life of everyone it sweeps past. A story of one woman's journey to save her son and another woman's chance at redemption." SIGNED on the title page. Includes discussion questions, author's note. 271 pp plus 22 color photographs bound in at rear of book. ISBN: 978-1609071226.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 88096
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  • STEALING THE CHILDREN. by Wright, Carolyne.
    Wright, Carolyne.
    STEALING THE CHILDREN.

    Edition: First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition.

    Boise, ID: Ahsahta Press / Boise State University, (1978). SIGNED first edition - Her first collection of poetry, INSCRIBED (in Portuguese) on the first page and dated in the year of publication "Good luck from a crazy poet." Introduction by Donald Dike. 41 pp. ISBN: 0-916272-095.

    Condition: Very good in printed olive green wrappers (some crinkling to the bottom edges of the pages.) Newspaper clipping with a humorous "guest comment" by Wright.

    Book ID: 61510
    Keywords: first book, Poetry
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  • Wright, Celeste Turner [1906 -1999.]
    SEASONED TIMBER.

    Edition: First printing.

    Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, (1977.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Includes the poems from 'Etruscan Princess' and 31 other poems which had not previously appeared in book form. Dr Wright, a pioneering educator, who received many honors, among them the a silver medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, was the first woman professor at the University of California, Davis (back when it was the annex to Berkeley and only had eight women among the students. ). ISBN: 0-8233-02644.

    Condition: INSCRIBED by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 29023
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • A SENSE OF PLACE. by Wright, Celeste Turner [1906 -1999.]
    Wright, Celeste Turner [1906 -1999.]
    A SENSE OF PLACE.

    Edition: First printing.

    Francestown, NH: Golden Quill Press, (1973.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The second collection of poems by this noted Elizabethian scholar. Dr Wright, a pioneering educator, who received many honors, among them the a silver medal from the Commonwealth Club of California, was the first woman professor at the University of California, Davis (back when it was the annex to Berkeley and only had eight women among the students. ) INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in 1975. ISBN: 0-8233-02644.

    Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, closed tear to upper edge of dj)

    Book ID: 67912
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • Wright, Celeste Turner.[1906 -1999.]
    ETRUSCAN PRINCESS and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, 1964. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in The New Poetry Series. A collection of poems with a strong sense of place - many are rooted in California and its history. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper (with the recipient's name partially erased.)

    Condition: Very good in a good dustjacket with some tape repairs on the interior.

    Book ID: 13287
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • Wright, Celeste Turner.[1906 -1999.]
    ETRUSCAN PRINCESS and Other Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    Denver: Allan Swallow, Publisher, 1964. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A title in The New Poetry Series. A collection of poems with a strong sense of place - many are rooted in California and its history. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Her first collection of poems.

    Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16956
    Keywords: Poetry
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  • APPALACHIA. by Wright, Charles.
    Wright, Charles.
    APPALACHIA.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet, the final book in his trilogy of trilogies. 64 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket .

    Book ID: 58063
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  • BUFFALO YOGA: Poems. by Wright, Charles.
    Wright, Charles.
    BUFFALO YOGA: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short lyric and longer narrative poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet. 76 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (short closed tear to dj at base of spine.)

    Book ID: 48980
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  • BUFFALO YOGA: Poems. by Wright, Charles.
    Wright, Charles.
    BUFFALO YOGA: Poems.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2004.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short lyric and longer narrative poems by this Pulitzer and National Book award winning poet. 76 pp plus notes. ISBN: 0-374-117284.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket (tear to upper corner of dj at fold) .

    Book ID: 86432
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  • THE WIG: A Mirror Image. by Wright, Charles (1932-2008)
    Wright, Charles (1932-2008)
    THE WIG: A Mirror Image.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a surreal look at 1960s New York as shown in the story of Lester Jefferson, "a rambunctiously outgoing and terminally callow variation on Wright's urban-loner persona. Lester is determined to capitalize on the transformative potential of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with some bold transformations of his own. These begin with the vigorous application of something called Silky Smooth Hair Relaxer ('with the Built-in Sweat-proof Base'), thus bringing to life the eponymous 'wig': a lustrously silken hairdo that so boosts his self-esteem (I hadn't felt so good since discovering last year that I actually disliked watermelon) that he believes nothing less than the American…

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    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1966) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a surreal look at 1960s New York as shown in the story of Lester Jefferson, "a rambunctiously outgoing and terminally callow variation on Wright's urban-loner persona. Lester is determined to capitalize on the transformative potential of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society with some bold transformations of his own. These begin with the vigorous application of something called Silky Smooth Hair Relaxer ('with the Built-in Sweat-proof Base'), thus bringing to life the eponymous 'wig': a lustrously silken hairdo that so boosts his self-esteem (I hadn't felt so good since discovering last year that I actually disliked watermelon) that he believes nothing less than the American Dream is within reach." (Gene Seymour) A book which anticipated the work of Fran Ross, Paul Beatty, Darius James, and Ishmael Reed (who calls this novel a landmark in African American fiction.) 179 pp. Dust jacket by Milton Glaser.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79584
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  • ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO GET ALARMED ABOUT. by Wright, Charles (1932-2008)
    Wright, Charles (1932-2008)
    ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO GET ALARMED ABOUT.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - A classic novel about what it means to be a black American - sometimes brutally funny, other times starkly real - as he "sets forth his encounters with poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, venereal disease, murder, bureaucratic indifference, race riots, frustrated rage -and a variety of ways of loving." The third and last novel by this writer, whom Ishmael Reed notably described as "Richard Pryor before there was a Richard Pryor. Richard Pryor on paper." 215 pp. ISBN: 0-374-100365.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 78113
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  • POETRY, Volume CLXVII, Number 3, December 1995. by (Wright, Charles; William Dickey, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon et al) Parish, Joseph, editor.
    (Wright, Charles; William Dickey, Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon et al) Parish, Joseph, editor.
    POETRY, Volume CLXVII, Number 3, December 1995.

    Edition: First appearance in print of these works.

    Chicago: 1995. First edition - Contributions from Paul Mariani, Charles Wright, Philip Booth, William Dickey, Donald Hall, Jane Kenyon and others. Pp 125-170 plus memoriams for Stephen Spender and May Sarton and advertisements.

    Condition: Very near fine in white wrappers.

    Book ID: 55952
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  • CUCINA RAPIDA: Quick Italian-Style Home Cooking. by Wright, Clifford A.
    Wright, Clifford A.
    CUCINA RAPIDA: Quick Italian-Style Home Cooking.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - Begins with a chapter on what you should have in your pantry, followed by 160 quick and easy recipes for delicious Italian-style meals, from pasta to rice dishes, meat and fish and desserts - among them penne with broccoli, fennel, and endive; stuffed pork spareribs; shrimp in garlic cream sauce and more. Index. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-688115322.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86912
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