Catalog 159, W-Z
210. WALTON, Todd. Inside Moves. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. His first book. This copy was signed by Walton in 1981 and sent to noted film critic Pauline Kael, with a long letter (included here in photocopy), asking Kael why she did not review the film made from the book. Walton claims the film deserved a scathing review from her, but that he would have felt vindicated by that after the "long nightmare/fairy tale/nightmare" of the process of taking the book to the screen and the battles he had with the film's makers (although he adds that the film has had some success at benefit showings for handicapped audiences). Walton also adds his next novel is starting the same process, and he fears it will end up a John Travolta musical. The photocopied letter has the word "answered" written on the bottom, presumably in Kael's hand. Folded to fit inside the book, which has remainder speckling to the lower edge and is otherwise fine in a near fine dust jacket.
211. WALTON, Todd. Forgotten Impulses and Autograph Letter Signed. NY: Simon & Schuster (1980). His second book, sent to film critic Pauline Kael in 1981. With an autograph letter signed by Walton, much of which relates a long joke about psychoanalysis (complete with taped-over punch line), but Walton also updates Kael on the process of getting a movie made from Forgotten Impulses. (It apparently wasn't filmed.) Two sides of a page; folded for mailing, with envelope. The book is near fine in a fine dust jacket.
212. WELSH, Irvine. Trainspotting. London: Secker & Warburg (1993). The simultaneous softcover issue of his first novel, highly acclaimed upon publication and later the basis for the phenomenally successful movie that became a cultural milestone of the 1990s. Signed by the author. Owner name on first blank, some age toning apparent to foredge; very near fine in self-wrappers.
213. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author in 2002. Owner name to first blank; fine in self-wrappers.
214. WILLEFORD, Charles. A Guide for the Undehemorrhoided. (Boynton Beach): (Star Publishing)(1977). One of the more uncommon books by the author of Cockfighter and the Hoke Moseley mysteries, among others, consisting of outtakes from his autobiography, which was then in progress. Privately published. Light foxing to endpages, else fine in a fine, but slightly dusty jacket.
215. WILLIAMS, Tennessee and BOWLES, Paul. Three. NY: Hargail Music Press (1947). Sheet music by Bowles for this Tennessee Williams poem. The two collaborated a number of times during the period prior to Bowles's first novel, The Sheltering Sky (1949), when his primary creative work was as a composer. Miller E40, approximately 1000 copies printed. Broadsheet, folded to make four pages. 9 1/8" x 12 1/8". Tiny corner chips and minor marginal dampstaining; very good. Scarce in the original, although apparently collected in the 1984 Soundings Press edition of Bowles' Selected Songs.