Search Results: Titles starting with W from Grinning Cat Books

First Edition thus. Folio Society (2007). Fine in a just about fine slipcase. Presents almost as new. Quarter bound in brown leather over pictorial boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated throughout with wonderful engravings by artist Harry Brockway. Housed in a just about fine brown slipcase, two corners slightly bumped. Top edge brick red. Introduction by Roy Foster. Large 8vo. 536 pp. A lovely edition of copy of Yeats' works.

First Edition, First Printing. Near fine in original brown quarter cloth over tan boards, top edge gilt, and very good somewhat dusty dust jacket with a very small chip from the corner at the head of the spine. Signed by Robert Cortes Holliday on the front free endpaper. Very scarce signed and in jacket in this condition. Octavo. 309 pp. Frontispiece illustration of the author, from a lithograph by Walter Jack Duncan.

First Edition. With monochrome reproductions of drawings by David Diaz. Fine in original purple boards and fine pictorial dust jacket, as new. A Newberry Honor book. Octavo. 305 pages. A handsome copy.

First US Edition. Signed by Llosa on the title page. Translated by Helen R. Lane. Fine in a fine jacket, unclipped ($18.95), a bit toned on the flaps. Fine black cloth with yellow paper-covered boards. Square and firmly bound.
Mario Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading writers of his generation. Winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this book we have Llosa's take on the backland uprisings in Brazil. Considered by many to be his masterpiece and boldly stated on the jacket, "To compare The War of the End of the World with the great historical novels of a Tolstoy or a Stedhal is no hyperbole." A beautiful copy of this Vargas classic.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a near fine dustjacket with a single, small closed tear. Jacket design by Hal Seigal. Quarter blue cloth over yellow boards, with metallic blue spine lettering, bright and unmarred. A beautiful copy of Irving's second book. Written when the author was twenty-nine, the main character is a perpetual graduate student with a birth defect in his urinary tract--and a man on the threshold of committing himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Octavo 8vo. 365 pages. "Three or four times as funny as most novels." (The New Yorker). A great copy.

First Edition, First Printing (Random House, New York, 1979). Signed by both Michener and Moll on the half title page. Wonderful black and white illustrations throughout by John Moll. Fine in a fine dust jacket; presents as new. Michener's collection of writings about the Chesapeake Bay region and the watermen who harvest shellfish from its waters. The material is drawn from Michener's historical novel "Chesapeake." Foreword by Michener. Octavo. 193 pp. A fantastic copy of this Michener tribute to the Chesapeake Bay Region.

First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition, number 137 of only 250 copies. Signed by Erskine Caldwell. Caldwell's second volume of short fiction, collecting twenty stories ranging in setting from North to South, Near fine in publisher's original light orange cloth, blocked in brown and green, top edge gilt, and near fine original numbered slipcase. No dust jacket, as issued. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. viii, 264 pp. A very nice copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Jimmy Carter on the title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket, with black cloth and pictorial dustjacket. Octavo. 228 pp. A beautiful copy.

West Bay: Photographs. Poems by Eight Contemporary Poets. First edition. Signed by Parr. One of 250 numbered copies. Fine in original colorful deck-chair canvas and housed in a very lightly used blue cloth slipcase stamped in blind on the upper and lower covers. With 24 full color tipped in photographs reflecting the British seaside. Large oblong folio. Unpaginated. This book is quite large and additional shipping charges may apply. A stunning copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Published by the Asheville, NC, Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Illustrated with several black & white plates. Just about fine in original dark blue cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Small chip near top of spine. Binding square and tight, text clean and bright. Bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Octavo. 6.25 x 9.25 in. 710 pp. A lovely, bright copy.

First Edition. Limited Edition of only 26 copies, this being letter "B." Signed by Metcalf on colophon. Quite rare thus. Fine in a fine pictorial dust jacket. Tansy #6, a thin octavo 1977 literary publication is laid in. It also contains the famous title essay "Where Do You Put the Horse?" Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 165 pp. A wonderful copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Signed by Leighton on the half-title page. Scarce thus. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of engravings by Clare Leighton. Very good plus in original cream cloth, slight soiling to back cover edge. Internally near fine, bright, clean and ummarred. In a very good patterned dust jacket, with toning to the head of spine and corners. Small quarto. 7.75 x 10.25 in. 202 pp. Overall, a lovely copy of this scarce work by Leighton of her beloved Cape Cod.

First American Edition. Fine in original black and white cloth and fine pictorial dust jacket. Unfaded spine. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.5 in. [vi], 279 + [3] pp. A great copy.
A notable work by this jet-setting French novelist / diplomat / filmmaker, centering around the attempted 'de-programming' of a German Shepherd that had been trained, presumably by Southern racists, to attack and kill Black people; Gary, who finds the dog as a stray in the beginning of the book, elicits the help of an African-American animal handler in his attempt to cure the hound of its learned racism. Often characterized as a 'nonfiction autobiographical novel,' most of the book reads pretty much as a straight memoir -- albeit with some individuals anonymized -- of Gary's involvement in the American leftist/progressive political scene (Hollywood chapter) of the day. His presence in that milieu was in large measure due to the even deeper immersion of his then-wife, activist/actress Jean Seberg, who was notorious (at least in the eyes… Read More

First Edition, First Printing. Inscribed by President Carter on a bookplate on the half-title page. Fine in a fine dustjacket. Octavo. 570 pp. A lovely copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. National Book Award winner and one the author's most critically acclaimed works. Notably difficult to locate in top condition. 8vo 8' - 9' tall. A wonderful copy.

First Edition, First Printing (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1990). Fine in a fine dust jacket; as new. Signed by Ford on the title page. His fifth novel. A lovely copy and must have fans and collectors of Richard Ford.

Basis for the 2018 Paul Dano movie starring Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ed Oxenbould. When Joe Brinson was sixteen, his father moved the family to Great Falls, Montana. As seen and told through the eyes of, Joe, a 16 year old coming of age, the story of love and family and the forces that test them to the breaking point.

Fine in publisher's black cloth, gold text on spine. In a fine, pictorial dust jacket. that presents as new. In a protective mylar covering. Octavo. 177 pp.

First Edition, First Printing. Vidal's first book. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, titles to spine and front board in blue, richly colored. Content internally fine. First state dust jacket is bright and in very good condition for age, only lightly rubbed at extremities with wrinkles and minor chips and top and tail of spine; endpapers unevenly tanned. An excellent copy of this amazing author's first book.

First Trade Edition, Later Printing. Signed boldly by Jack Welch on the front free endpaper. Fine in a fine dustjacket. In Winning, Welch delivers a wide-ranging, in-depth, no-holds-barred management guidebook about the tough strategic, organizational, and personal challenges that face people at every stage of their careers. Loaded with candid personal anecdotes, hard-hitting advice, and invaluable dos and don'ts, Jack explains his theory of business, by laying out the important principles that form the foundation of his success.

First Edition, Later Printing (likely c.1937-38). Wishing Horse is the last Oz title that was issued with color plates. (Bienvenue & Schmidt p. 117). A terrific copy. First issue dust jacket. This is a rare copy that has all first edition points but does NOT include color plates. In publisher's original cloth, with color pictorial image matching the dj cover pasted down to front board. Titles and decoration to spine in burnt orange. Blank endpapers (as issued). Internally fine. Ends of spine and corners very lightly bumped. Very good plus dust jacket with wear to the extremities and a bit of chipping to along the edges and ends of the spine; rear dj cover a bit created at top edge. Octavo. 298 pp. Overall, a lovely copy.

First Edition, First Printing. Limited Edition. Number 235 of only 600 copies. Signed by Tom Clancy on the colophon. Near fine with spine a tad sunned, else fine in original grey cloth and very good matching slipcase. Octavo. 16.5 x 24 cm. 639 pp. A great copy!