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567. -. Same title. This is the simultaneous issue in wrappers, stamped inside the front cover "Property of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publications." Very good in wrappers.
568. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London: Women's Press 1988). Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
569. WALKER, Alice. The Color Purple. (London): Women's Press (1986). First English hardcover edition (it was a paperback original there first). Fine in fine dust jacket. Her Pulitzer Prize winner.
570. WALKER, Alice. Good Night Willie Lee, I'll See You in the Morning. (London): Women's Press (1987). The first British edition. Paperback original. Fine.
571. -. Another copy of the British edition. This is a fine copy and is signed by the author.
572. WALKER, Alice. Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful. SD: HBJ (1984). Poetry. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
573. -. Another copy. Fine in a very good dust jacket.
574. WALKER, Alice. The Third Life of Grange Copeland. London: Women's Press (1985). First British edition of her second book, first novel, not published until well after the worldwide success of The Color Purple. Fine in fine dust jacket.
575. WALKER, Alice. To Hell With Dying. NY: HBJ (1988). Advance copy of this uncommon children's book, written by Walker and illustrated by Catherine Deeter. Unbound signatures, fine, laid into near fine dust jacket. Scarce format.
576. WALKER, Alice. The Temple of My Familiar. San Diego: HBJ, 1989. The advance reading copy w/errata sheet. Very near fine in wrappers.
577. -. Same title, the first British edition (Lon: Women's Press, 1989). Signed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket.
578. WALKER, Alice. Her Blue Body Everything We Know. NY: HBJ (1991). Uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers. Also includes a photocopy of 49 copyedited pages from the final section. Scarce.
579. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 111 copies signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket in slipcase, as issued. A very small limitation for an author of Walker's stature.
580. WALKER, Alice. Finding the Green Stone. NY: HBJ (1991). Again, an advance copy of a children's book, written by Walker and illustrated by Catherine Deeter. Unbound signatures, fine, laid into near fine dust jacket. Scarce.
581. WALKER, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy. NY: HBJ (1992). Uncorrected proof copy of her latest book, a novel. Fine in wrappers.
582. -. Same title. Word-processed sheets of her latest novel, submitted to Book of the Month Club for book club consideration. Preceded by three pages of publisher's promotional information. Label attached to bottom edge of pages, otherwise a fine set of sheets.
583. (WALKER, Alice). The Color Purple. Burbank: Warner Bros., 1985. A book of color photographs taken by Gordon Parks and John Shannon during the filming of The Color Purple. With comments by Walker, Spielberg, and the cast. Produced for distribution to Academy members prior to Oscar nominations, of which the film received 11. Fine in printed wrappers.
584. (WALKER, Alice). "Anything We Love Can Be Saved" in Zora! A Woman and Her Community. Orlando: Orlando Sentinel, 1991. Compiled and edited by N.Y. Nathiri, with an essay by Walker. Fine in fine dust jacket.
585. WALKER, Margaret. For My People. New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1942. The African-American author's first book, a collection of poems in the prestigious Yale Younger Poets Series. This is a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with tiny chips at the spine extremities. Inscribed by the author. A very nice copy. The author later won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for her novel, Jubilee.
586. WALKER, Margaret. How I Wrote Jubilee. NY: Feminist (1989). Uncorrected proof copy. Very near fine in wrappers.
587. WALTERS, Minette. The Sculptress. London: Macmillan (1993). The second book by the author of the award-winning The Ice House. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
588. WEBER, Katharine. Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear. NY: Crown (1995). The author's well-received first book. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author.
589. WELDON, Fay. Down Among the Women. NY: St. Martin's (1972). Uncommon second novel by the award-winning author of The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, among others. Fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
590. WELDON, Fay. The Life and Loves of a She-Devil. NY: Pantheon (1984). First American edition of this novel which was made into two different movies, nearly simultaneously. Fine in fine dust jacket with blurbs by Erica Jong and Marilyn French.
591. WELTY, Eudora. The Bride of Innisfallen. NY: Harcourt Brace (1955). Very scarce first issue of this collection of stories, with a single copyright date. Minor shelfwear; near fine in an exceptionally bright dust jacket with slight edgewear. A nice copy of an uncommon book.
592. -. Another copy, again of the first issue. Owner bookplate front pastedown; edgewear to cloth. Very good in lightly edgeworn, modestly darkened dust jacket-still very good.
593. WELTY, Eudora. Place in Fiction. NY: House of Books, 1957. A small volume published in the House of Books "Crown Octavo Series." 1/300 numbered copies signed by the author. This is a very fine copy in the original glassine dust jacket, missing tiny chips at the spine extremities, but otherwise fine. A remarkably nice example.
594. WELTY, Eudora. Three Papers on Fiction. Northampton: Smith College, 1962. Three essays, done while she was William Allan Neilson Professor at Smith College. Fine in stapled wrappers.
595. WELTY, Eudora. Losing Battles. NY: Random House (1970). Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
596. WELTY, Eudora. One Writer's Beginnings. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1984. Well received memoir, and the first bestseller that Harvard University Press had ever had-reprinted many times. Foxing to top edge; else fine in fine dust jacket.
597. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 350 copies, signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
598. WELTY, Eudora. Conversations with Eudora Welty. Jackson: U. Press of Mississippi (1984). The hardcover issue of this collection of interviews. Fine in fine dust jacket.
599. WELTY, Eudora. Morgana. Jackson: U. Press of Mississippi (1988). The trade edition of this first separate appearance of two stories from The Golden Apples. Fine in fine dust jacket and signed by the author and the illustrator, Mildred Nungester Wolfe.
600. -. Same title, the limited edition. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator, Mildred Nungester Wolfe. Fine in slipcase.
601. WHARTON, Edith. The Buccaneers. NY: D. Appelton (1938). First edition of her last novel, published in an unfinished form a year after she died. Minor offsetting to endpapers; near fine in very good jacket with some rubbing along the edges and folds. A nice copy, quite uncommon in dust jacket.
602. (WHARTON, Edith). AUCHINCLOSS, Louis. Edith Wharton. A Woman in Her Time. NY: Viking (1971). Biographical portrait, heavily illustrated with photographs. Clothbound. Slight wear to spine lettering; else fine, without dust jacket.
603. WILHELM, Kate. The Killer Thing. Garden City: Doubleday, 1967. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
604. WILHELM, Kate. The Downstairs Room. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. A collection of stories, one of her less common titles. Thin offsetting to endpages and small watermark near spine base; very good in very good dust jacket.
605. WILHELM, Kate. Let the Fire Fall. Garden City: Doubleday, 1969. Science fiction, a novel, by one of the foremost women practitioners of the genre of her time. Remainder spray bottom page edges; watermarks to rear cloth; else very good in very good, price-clipped dust jacket dampstained on verso.
606. WILKINSON, Sylvia. Moss on the North Side. Boston: HM, 1969. First book by this North Carolina native, who is a graduate of Hollins College and its renowned writing program. Very near fine in like jacket.
607. WILLIAMS, Joan. The Morning and the Evening. NY: Atheneum, 1961. The author's first book, which is much scarcer than is commonly supposed: most of the copies that appear on the market offered as first editions are in fact book club editions, although they have priced dust jackets and explicit statements of first edition-normally sufficient to identify a first; with this title, one must look for the embossed "dot" on the rear cover, as well. Fine in near fine dust jacket.
608. WILLIAMS, Joan. The Wintering. NY: HBJ (1971). Her uncommon second book. Remainder mark; near fine in good dust jacket with several edge tear and one open tear mid-spine.
609. WILLIAMS, Joy. The Changeling. Garden City: Doubleday, 1978. Uncorrected proof copy of her second novel. Glue residue on most of front panel where publisher's info sheet was pasted (now laid in); near fine in tall wrappers. Very scarce.
610. WINTERSON, Jeanette. Fit for the Future. London: Pandora (1986). A wholly serious, and personal, manifesto on exercise and nutrition. Her first book of nonfiction and her only title still not acknowledged in later books as "by the same author." The fictional imagination that crafted her later novels shows through infrequently: "...if you have a lethargic lover who can't cope with your increased libido...you may have to have an affair, which may affect your life rather dramatically..." This is the hardcover edition; there was a simultaneous issue in wrappers. Fine in fine dust jacket, and quite uncommon.
611. WINTERSON, Jeanette. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1987). First American edition of author's highly praised first novel, winner of the Whitbread Prize. Only issued in wrappers. Near fine.
612. WINTERSON, Jeanette. The Passion. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (1988). First American edition of her third novel, fourth book. Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. Fine in fine dust jacket with the slightest crimp to the lamination at the spine base.
613. WINTERSON, Jeanette. Written on the Body. NY: Knopf, 1993. Advance reading copy of the first American edition. A love story with a narrator of undeclared gender, and a departure from the magical realism of Sexing the Cherry and The Passion. Fine in wrappers and publisher's pictorial cardstock slipcase. Signed by the author.
614. -. Same title, the trade edition. Fine in fine dust jacket.
615. (WINTERSON, Jeanette). Passion Fruit. London: Pandora (1986). A collection of "romantic fiction," edited by Winterson. With contributions by Bobbie Ann Mason, Laurie Colwin, Sara Maitland, Marge Piercy, Fay Weldon, and others. Only issued in wrappers. Fine.
616. WOLITZER, Meg. Sleepwalking. NY: Random House (1982). First book. Fine in fine dust jacket.
617. -. Another copy. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
618. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929. A short essay, but one of her most important works, which retains its freshness and relevance today, more than 60 years later. Owner name and date in pencil on flyleaf, and some offsetting there; else a near fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket.
619. WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. NY: Harcourt Brace (1931). First American edition of this novel. Previous owner name front endpaper; slight foxing to front and rear endpapers. Very good copy in a spine-darkened dust jacket which is chipped at crown and has a long tear on the front flap. Not gorgeous, but an acceptable copy of this important novel in dust jacket.
620. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. NY: Harcourt Brace (1937). First American edition. Although Woolf is most well-known for her use of stream-of-consciousness technique, The Years is a more traditional and more accessible novel, and her longest book. Vertical line of discoloration along front joint; else near fine in good, price-clipped and spine-faded jacket with small chips at spine extremities and a good tear at the upper front corner.
621. WOOLF, Virginia. Haunted House and Other Stories. London: Hogarth, 1943. A posthumously published collection of short stories, six of which are published for the first time. A small wartime volume, printed on cheap paper and in a thin binding. Very mild offsetting to endpapers; else fine in a very good dust jacket with closed edge tears along all spine folds. Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. A very nice copy of a fragile book.
622. WOOLF, Virginia. A Writer's Diary. NY: Harcourt Brace (1954). Excerpts from Woolf's diaries of 1918-1941, pertaining to her writing life. Edited by her husband. Very good in dust jacket that is chipped at crown and base of spine, and along the top edge of the rear panel.
623. WOOLF, Virginia. Granite & Rainbow. NY: Harcourt Brace (1958). An advance review copy of the first American edition of Woolf's essays on the art of fiction and biography. Owner information front flyleaf; very good in very good edge- and spine-darkened dust jacket, with review slip tipped to front pastedown. Overall, an attractive copy.
624. -. Another copy. Top edge of cloth sunned; very good in a trimmed, very good, price-clipped dust jacket with a few dark stains but no sunning.
625. ZEIDNER, Lisa. Talking Cure. Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1982. Her second book, a collection of poems. A good copy only, in wrappers, but an uncommon title, and inscribed by the author to another writer.