Search Results: Titles starting with W from Hudson Valley Books for Humanity

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good +. First hardcover edition. Beckett's second novel, written while he was in France during the Occupation. The book was published in the Traveller's Companion Series from Olympia Press in Paris, which was known for publishing avant-garde writers and controversial works of literature. 279 pages. 7" x 4.75". Very good copy with some bowing of the front board, and a small tear at foot of spine. Very good plus bright and unclipped dust jacket with some edgewear and small chip at foot of spine.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition of the 1981 story collection that established Raymond Carver as a master of the American short story. 159 pages. 8.5" x 5.75". Near fine copy. Very good bright unclipped dust jacket ($9.95) with a small tear on upper right corner of back jacket.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition of a "perverse mystery" novel by the writer of Trout Fishing in America. 167 pages. 8.25" x 5.5". Fine copy in near fine dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Signed first edition, with author signature and date on the title page (1/10/83). A love story about a burglar and a dying heiress in a mythic New York City, A Winter's Tale was a #1 New York Times bestseller. 673 pages. 9.5" x 6.5". Near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

New York: Clarkson Potter, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated first edition of a stunning collection of wood engravings by Eichenberg, hand selected by the artist, many of them created as book illustrations. 199 pages. 12" x 9.25". Near fine condition with light spotting on top of textblock. Very good dust jacket, price-clipped with small chip on front of jacket.

New York: Viking, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Signed first edition of T. C. Boyle's darkly comic historical novel set in the Hudson River Valley of his youth. Winner of the Pen Faulkner Award in 1988. 456 pages. 9.5" x 6.5". A fine copy in a bright and sharp very good (price-clipped) dust jacket.