Eugene Walter from Berthoff Books

No Binding. Very Good. Nine loose sheets. Eight ironically captioned drawings by the versatile poet/artist/writer Eugene Walter, printed on 8-1/2" x 11" white card stock, covered with a larger, folded sheet of red paper. There are two copies of the cartoon "The Commitee meets to discuss the future of the Committee." No date or publisher is indicated, only… Read more about this item

Decatur House Press, 1980. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 152 pages. Fourteen short stories by the multi-talented Eugene Walter of Mobile, Alabama, collected and published shortly after his return from 30 years living in Europe. 8vo, plum cloth with gilt lettering on spine, mauve end papers, miminal wear. In unclipped dust jacket with wear along the spine… Read more about this item

Livingston University Press, 1994. Soft cover. Very Good/Good. 91 pages, with index of first lines. Poems are grouped into four sections: Contraband, Contradance, Contradiction, and Counterpoint. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" in white card wraps with a few faint foxing-like marks on front cover, dust soil to top edge, practically no wear; DJ decorated with lizard wearing a spiffy metallic… Read more about this item

Soft cover. Good. 12 pages including front and back, stapled in pamphlet form. Evidently a concert program: "Lyrics by Eugene Walter, Music by Donald Ashwander, Fred Baldwin, Alexis Biolley & Francis Imbragulio". Performer listed after each poem (song): Phyllis Demetropoulos - soprano, Greg Riley - tenor, Teri Ann Willams - soprano, Linda Evans - alto. Most of the… Read more about this item

Crane Hill Publlishers, 1992. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. New Enlarged Edition, ~70 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" soft cover in self-wraps, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper, water spots and rippling to front cover inside and out, reading crease, crease… Read more about this item

Methuen, 1985. Soft cover. Very Good. 188 pages. Fourteen short stories by the Renaissance man Eugene Walter, born in Mobile, Alabama. "Sparklingly witty stories from the Gulf of Mexico" reads the front cover; most of the stories are set along the U.S. Gulf coast. Mass-market paperback (first UK edition), minimal shelf wear, old price written on ffep, pages… Read more about this item

The Willoughby Institute, 1987. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 59 pages. Poems by the inimitable Renaissance man from Mobile, Alabama, illustrated throughout with his drawings. Thirty-five poems including "The Quarterback's Lament" and such works of the Reagan era as "Goodbye to Mr. Edwin Meese, or, The Triumph of Dolly Parton". 5-1/2" x 8-1/2" paperback in… Read more about this item

The Willoughby Institute, 1981. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/Very Good. 60 unnumbered pages. A whimsical alphabet in reverse, with texts and b&w illustrations (drawings and reproductions) throughout. 5-5/8" x 8-1/2" pamphlet style, stapled in pale blue wraps without visible wear, faded along fold, staples rusted, end papers pink, pages printed on alternating pink and yellow paper,… Read more about this item

B. Schott's Söhne, 1967. Soft cover. Very Good. 47 pages. Comic Opera . . . "from a fable in 'The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves' by Wilhelm Hauff", Music by Hans Werner Henze, but this volume is the libretto only. "English Version by Eugene Walter" on label affixed to title page, covering a printed line containing a… Read more about this item