Search Results: Authors starting with W from Idler Fine Books

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986 First printing of the stated first edition, green cloth boards, illustrated with black-n-white photographs. Inscribed by Jane Wagner for cosmetic queen, Mary Kay: To Mary Kay / KEEP TEACHING! / Warmest love & goose bumps! / Jane Wagner; and signed by Lily Tomlin below Wagner's signature. Faint toning to outer edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light wear and a short diagonal crease to upper corner of front flap, else fine. A lovely copy.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1993 First printing of the first edition, cloth-backed decorated boards and quarter cloth with printed spine label, limited to 125 signed and numbered hardbound copies, this being number 83 and signed by Diane Wakoski. Mild bump to upper corner, faint toning to top edge of boards, else book in fine condition.

Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press, 1971 First printing of the first edition, cloth-backed decorated boards, limited to 200 signed and numbered hardbound copies, this being number 106 and signed by Diane Wakoski. Book in fine condition, with light rubbing bottom edge of boards. No dust jacket issued.

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1987 First printing of the stated first edition, review copy, with the publisher's slip laid-in. Faint toning to endpapers and to jacket flaps, else in fine condition.

New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1970 First printing of the stated first American edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid-in. Signed and dated by Derek Walcott directly on the front-free endpaper. Book in fine condition; a hint of tanning to spine, else dust jacket in fine condition.

London: Faber and Faber, 1997 First printing of the first British edition. Book in fine, as new condition; dust jacket with a faint horizontal crease to covers and a very faint diagonal crease to back flap, else fine.

London: Faber and Faber, 1997 First printing of the first British edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973 First edition, stated first edition, advance review copy with the Welsh Arts Council's black-and-white photo of the author and publisher's promotional material laid-in. Signed and inscribed to former poet laureate, Dan G. Hoffman: "To Dan / with love / Derrek"
Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to margins, a couple short closed tears and light edge wear--primarily near crown of spine, else fine.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997 First printing of the stated first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 First printing of the stated first edition. Presentation copy (signed and dated in year of publication on the half-title page) to famed civil rights lawyer and activist, Jack Greenberg (1924–2016): "For Jack Greenberg / long in the / Storm. / Sincerely, / Alice Walker / 2-26-73." Provenance: the personal copy of Jack Greenberg, consigned by his adopted son William Cole.
Light rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning to cover margins, light wear to spine ends, and light shelf wear.

Jack Greenberg was an American attorney and legal scholar. He was the Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund from 1961 to 1984, succeeding Thurgood Marshall.

Greenberg represented Martin Luther King Jr., but was best known for his role in litigating Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 civil rights case in which the high court rejected “separate but equal” public schools for blacks and… Read More

San Diego / New York / London: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1991 First printing of stated first edition. Signed by Alice Walker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Random House, 2000 First printing of the stated first edition, review copy with Jean Weisinger's black-and-white photograph of the author that was used for the back cover of the dust jacket loosely laid-in. Signed by Alice Walker directly on the title page. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Scribner / Simon & Schuster, 1996 First printing of the first edition. Signed by Alice Walker on the half-title page (sale includes provenance, loosely laid-in). Front upper corner rubbed, else book in fine, as new condition; dust jacket with an unobtrusive chip to upper front fold, else fine.

New York / San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 First printing of the stated first edition. Signed and inscribed by Alice Walker "To Wendy, / Alice Walker." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a tiny closed tear and rubbing to bottom spine end and light shelf wear, else fine.

San Diego / New York / London: Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, 1991 First printing of the stated first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

London: The Women's Press, 1985 First printing of the first British edition, preceded by the American edition. Author's first novel. Toning to page margins, else book and dust jacket in fine condition.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968 First printing of the stated first edition. Author's first book. Bookplate of "The Ed Sullivans" to front fly leaf and mild shelf wear to boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with chips, tears and creasing, rubbing along folds, light tanning/offsetting to front cover.

New York: The Dial Press, 1979 First edition, stated first printing. Short gift inscription to second fly leaf, else book in fine condition; price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of rubbing to corners, else fine.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984 First printing of the stated first edition. Light toning and rubbing to board edge, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a chip and closed tear to upper back cover near spine fold, two tiny closed tear and crease to middle of top back cover, mild wear to spine ends, and light edge wear, else fine.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell / CB A Crowell Biography, 1974 First printing of the first edition. Glossy, color pictorial boards, black-and- white illustrations, 34pp., in the original dust jacket with the $3.95 price on the front flap. Light rubbing to board edges and a marker dash at bottom page edge; dust jacket with light rubbing to corners, else fine. Walker's first children's book.