Weldon Warren (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ex Lib wqith usual markings. Toning to text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition Not Stated. Unmarked clean and solid. thin abrasion line on cover's spine, dust jacket with moderate soiling from handling. No indication of later printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 276pp. Illustrated with photographic plates. Text block edges and covers with a few small spots, corners and spine ends lightly bumped, very good in a very good dust jacket with a 2 ½" tear at crown and chipping and small tears along the edges. A Living Age Book. Contains the first book appearance of "Extracts from Addresses to the Academy of Fine Ideas" by Wallace Stevens (*Edelstein* B26); additional contributions by Conrad Akien, W.H. Auden, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, R.P. Blackmur, Weldon Kees, Archibald MacLeish, Louis MacNiece, Marianne Moore, Delmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Allen Tate, Dylan Thomas, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams and more.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Prentice-Hall, 1970. Octavo. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Caroline Chapman on flyleaf. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good with shelf/edgewear and nicks. An excellent copy of this prolific paranormal title detailing the life of medium, Caroline Chapman.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. A HAPPY MEDIUM: THE LIFE OF CAROLINE RANDOLPH CHAPMAN. Warren Weldon. Prentice-Hall, Englewood, 1970. 174p. hardcover with dust jacket, dust jacket bumped/scuffed/sunned/edgewear, boards clean/square, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, NOT xlib SIGNED/INSCRIBED NOT BY AUTHOR BUT BY CAROLINE R. CHAPMAN HERSELF-- 150.00 ISBN 10: 0133837033ISBN 13: 9780133837032. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. Acceptable dust jacket. Gifter's inscription on inside. Spine end frayed. Dust Jacket torn. From the collection of Tom Verlaine. Verlaine was a guitarist, singer, and songwriter who was a founding member of the seminal punk rock band Television. He was known for his innovative guitar playing and songwriting, and he is considered to be one of the most important and influential musicians of the past 50 years.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st edition. Good+. 8vo, 96pp, printed wrappers. A scarce and historic early issue, includes a London Letter from George Orwell, an essay by T. S. Eliot, and contributions from other important writers. Corner chips to acidic wrappers and two interior pages; two later pages of Edmund Wilson story have minor pencil markings. Not Signed.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. WELDON, Warren. A HAPPY MEDIUM: THE LIFE OF CAROLINE RANDOLPH CHAPMAN. Foreword by Hugh Lynn Cayce. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., [1970]. 8vo., pink cloth in dust jacket; 174 pages. First Edition. On her honeymoon, Carolyn Chapman was singled out in the lobby of an Atlantic City hotel by a professional mindreader, who foretold of her personal tragedy and the special gift coming her way. After living on a Cuban plantation her daughter, Marjorie, died and Mr. Chapman was stricken blind after leaving Cuba due to political unrest. She then began to have manifestations that led to her mediumship, with Marjorie as her guide. This is her first biography. Signed inscription by Chapman on the front endpaper: "My Blessings, Caroline R. Chapman" and also with a signed presentation from Weldon: "Dec. 1970, To Mr. & Mrs. Stirland- All best wishes, Warren Weldon" on the same page. Copies signed by Weldon are scarce but having copy also signed by Chapman is very scarce! Very Good (contents clean & tight, one corner a tad bumped); some wear, creases & short tears (lower inch is missing from the spine) d/j. $175.00. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Alan Swallow. Tall octavo. 133, [20] pp. Light wear at the corners and spine ends, titling a bit dulled, near fine. Owner signature of Edward Hart, who is not a contributor but cited in the "Honor Roll of Poets," listing poems published in 1942 (citing his poem "Holiday," which appeared the *Rocky Mountain Review*). Hart was a Rhodes Scholar and professor of English at BYU. Prints the first book appearance of poems by John Berryman ("The Spinning Heart"); Theodore Roethke ("City Limits"); Randall Jarrell ("The Iceberg" and "January 1938'); Weldon Kees ("Henry James at Newport"); Stanley J. Kunitz ("The Tutored Child"); Eve Merriam, Howard Moss, Muriel Rukeyser, Ann Stanford, Alan Swallow, John Ciardi, Kenneth Fearing, and Yvor Winters. A few poems and short stories are reprints, including a poem by Robinson Jeffers ("My Dear Love," which was included in 'Be Angry at the Sun' published in same year) and Robert Penn Warren ("Terror") and two poems by Josephine Miles. Also reprints short stories by Robert Penn Warren ("Goodwood Comes Back"), and Eudora Welty ("A Visit of Charity" from *A Curtain of Green*). An uncommon anthology of writing in this 1942 issue, the only issue published by The Press of James A. Decker. The final two years, 1943 and 1944, were published by Bruce Humphries.