Search Results: Authors starting with W from Biblioctopus

New York: Little, Brown & Co, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition. Signed by Wallace on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. His last collection of stories. The writing of these stories overlapped his final novel, "The Pale King" (published posthumously in 2011), some being the manuscripts of the novel.

New York: Atheneum, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. 1st edition of Watson's autobiographical account of his 1953 co-discovery of DNA with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins that won all 3 a Nobel Prize. Contemporary, signed presentation copy, and a fine association, inscribed in black ink, on the red endpaper, from Watson to George Wald, a 1967 Nobel laureate in Medicine, and Ruth Wald, an emeritus biology professor at Harvard, "For George and Ruth, from J-" (Watson and George Wald were colleagues and friends at Harvard). A thin line of fading to the base of the spine but near fine in a dustjacket with a short tear to the top of the spine and slight wear to the corners, else near fine. For a long time, the only signed 1st editions of The Double Helix were presentation copies (gifts from the author), almost all of them inscribed at the time of publication because Watson soon ran out of 1st editions and was loath to buy more during the short time they were available. After that he… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/good. 2 vols. 1st edition in English, 1st printing. Foreword by C. G. Jung. Original cloth, fine, in chipped dustjackets, and worn slipcase. From many varieties, these jackets have rear flap ads reassuringly dated "1950" and married reprints don't. The I Ching is the most venerable masterpiece in all of Chinese Literature with all you can handle on multiple levels including a fortune telling game for the sleeping uninitiated and a stairway into the mind of Confucius for the conscious and awakened. The origins of I Ching were as a divination text from the 10th-4th century BC. This edition was originally translated into German by Wilhelm in 1924, then into English here by Baynes— considered the first accurate and culturally sympathetic translation.

London: Hogarth Press, 1953. Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format.

New York: Doran, 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. fine/very good. 1st American edition of her 2nd novel. Cloth with little corner rubs (light as a cat's footfall), else fine, in an unrepaired dustjacket with the shadow of a handwritten number on the spine, corner chips, and edge tears, else very good. Here is 37-year old Woolf, shrewd as an insurance adjuster, trying her hand at contrasts by portraying 4 young people who idealize different kinds of independence and yet, as is conventional with young people, insist on each other's support and fail to see any irony in that. Duckworth's 1919 London 1st edition of Night and Day is aggravatingly rare in a dustjacket, and one as nice as our NY edition, would be 10 times our price, and if you can find one, and if you can afford it, buy that. This 1st American edition in jacket is less rare, but RBH says only one copy has sold at auction since 1975 (34 years ago), and were it thought to be fairly valued at, say, $5,000, every copy that showed up in the… Read More