Trevor, William

The Hill Bachelors

(New York), Viking, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 245; black cloth and tan paper covered boards, lettered in gilt in a dust jacket; near fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket. His first collection since the best-selling After Rain, William Trevor's The Hill Bachelors is a heartbreaking book about men and women and their missed opportunities: four people live in a suburban house, frozen in a conspiracy of silence that prevents love's consummation; a nine-year-old dreams that a part in a movie will heal her fragmented family life; a brother and sister forge a new life amid the chaos of Ireland after the Rebellion; and in the title story, a young man chooses between his longtime love and a life of solitude on the family farm. These beautifully rendered tales reveal Trevor's compassion for the human condition and confirm once again his position as one of the premier writers of the short story. Near fine/in a near fine unclipped.

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Updike, John

Rabbit at Rest

New York, Knopf, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 512, (vi); blue cloth, top edge stained purple, lettered in silver in a price unclipped dust jacket; previous owners private stamp on a preliminary. Rabbit breathes his last. Very Good/very good.

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Buchzahl: 15665

Katalog: Fiction

Wait, Lea

Shadows at the Fair; an Antique Print Mystery

(New York), Scribner's, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 255; illustrated with a map and a building plan; green cloth and white paper covered boards in a dust jacket. Entertaining murder mystery set within the world of Antiques Dealers & Shows. Very good/very good.

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Buchzahl: 18573

Katalog: Detective Fiction & Mystery

Welty, Eudora

The Wide Net and Other Stories

New York, Harcourt Brace And Company, 1943. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; (x), (2), 3-214; blue cloth lettered in white; Very good, spine sunned. Ms. Welty's third book, and second published collection of short stories. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 13672

Katalog: Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Short Stories; Eudora Welty;

Wharton, Edith

The Custom of the Country

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1975. Later printing. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (vi), 594, (ii), ads; original printed pictorial wrappers, paperback. "Undine Spragg is an exquisitely beautiful but ferociously acquisitive young woman from the Midwest who comes to New York to seek her fortune. She achieves her social ambitions—but only at the highest cost to her family, her admirers, and her several husbands. Wharton lavished on Undine an imaginative energy that suggests she was as fascinated as she was appalled by the alluring monster she had created. It is the complexity of her attitude that makes The Custom of the Country—with its rich social and emotional detail and its headlong narrative power—one of the most fully realized and resonant of her works." A nice edition. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 18090

Katalog: Fiction

Whitlock, Brand

Her Infinite Variety

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; x, 167, (i); Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy, decorations by Ralph Fletcher Seymour, a frontispiece and eleven inserted black and white plates; decorated blue cloth, with a device in white, & gilt lettering. A novel dealing with Women's Suffrage. Whitlock was an intersting character. He worked with Altgeld, the reform Governor of Illinois and was elected Mayor of Toledo, also served as a diplomat. Very good .

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Buchzahl: 15748

Katalog: Fiction

Wideman, John Edgar

Fever

New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 161, (i), notes; blue cloth and green paper covered boards, lettered in blue in a pictorial dust jacket. A collection of 12 short stories which are connected by common themes of memory and loss, and by the interplay of reality and fabrication. From the author of "A Glance Away", "Brothers and Keepers" and "Sent For You Yesterday", which won the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1983. Very good/very good.

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Buchzahl: 18089

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Williams, Jesse Lynch

Not Wanted

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; (iv), 83. brown cloth and tan boards with a paper title label in a dust jacket; jacket spine ends chipped. The author won the Pulitzer Prize for his play Why Marry?. Very Good/very good.

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Buchzahl: 15495

Katalog: Fiction

Winter, John Strange (Stannard, Henrietta Eliza Vaughan)

He Went for a Soldier

New York, George Munro's Sons, Publishers, 1894. Wraps. Duodecimo; pp; 144, 16, (6), ads; printed self-wrappers. No. 34 of Munro's Library of Popular Novels. A line of early pulp paperback books; this one a "Victorian era novel focusing on the life of British soldiers and the British military. John Strange Winter was the pseudonym for Henrietta Eliza Vaughan Stannard, 19th century English author. Most of her work focused on military life, with Ruskin noting Winter as the 'author to whom we owe the most finished and faithful rendering ever yet given of the character of the British soldier,' (Wikipedia). edge wear, else very good .

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Katalog: Fiction

Wister, Owen

Members of the Family

New York, Macmillan, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo, pp. (6), 7-317, (viii), ads; Illustrated; Frontispiece eleven black and white plates by Harvey T. Dunn; decorated yellow cloth, lettered in red; Jacket spine panel is lacking; A good or better copy with the remains of the dust jacket. two worm holes on the fore-edge. Eight short stories aset in the Wyoming Territory. Wister set his "Virginian" in this same area. Quite scarce in a jacket. Good +/fair.

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Buchzahl: 14385

Katalog: Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Wyoming;

Wodehouse, P. G. and others

Disentangling Old Percy / Golden Book Magazine

New York, Review of Reviews, 1934. Wraps. Octavo; pp; 385-395; original printed red paper wrappers. This number also contains; Lafcadio Hearn's "Fountain of Gold"; Edward Bellamy's "The Water Tank" and other pieces; This is the first American appearance of this tale. Small circular embossed stamp on cover, "Beloit College", no other markings, else bright and very good .

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Buchzahl: 18333

Katalog: Fiction

Wodehouse, P. G.

Right Ho Jeeves

Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, 1934. First Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 312; scarlet ribbed cloth with black lettering on upper board and the spine. Attention All Drones! McIlvaine A-52, issued in the UK and Canada as "Right Ho, Jeeves" but in the U.S. as "Brinkley Manor". A scarce Wodehouse title in first edition; A bright clean tight copy!. very light wear, very good.

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Buchzahl: 18535

Katalog: Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Humor

Wodehouse, P. G.

The White Feather

London, A. & C. Black, Ltd, 1925. Sixth printing. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. 284; red cloth lettered in black; Color frontispiece; A good or better copy, edge wear. McIlvaine A-8a-7; More of the stories of the boys at Wrykyn, first introduced in "The Gold Bat". Vintage editions of the earliest Wodehouse titles are difficult to find. Good + .

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Buchzahl: 13459

Katalog: Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Wodehouse; Humor; Jeeves; Bertie Wooster;

Wood, Jeffrey

Lyft Faetels Inner Peace

New York, iUniverse Inc, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (6.25" x 9.25"), navy cloth, gilt, in pictorial jacket. 433pp. Volume II of the Lyft Faetels Trilogy. Inscribed by the author on the front free-endpaper. Very good/very good.

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Buchzahl: 14747

Katalog: Fiction

Sonstige Stichworte: Fiction; Fantasy; Lyft Faetels Trilogy; Science Fiction