The Womb House Books Gift Guide
Happy Holidays from WHB! Books make the best gifts. All she wants is books.
Womb House Books is celebrating the holiday season (and our first six months in business at our brick and mortar location in Oakland) with this literary gift-guide. Thank you for all your support. The next two months are crucial for the survival of our brick and mortar location. Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year!
Womb House Books Foundational Texts
These are some of the foundational texts of Womb House Books and we’ve bundled them in fiction, nonfiction, or hybrid groups that come with our Womb House Books tote for easy gifting.
Rare and Signed Listings
Signed mass market paperback of The Red and the Green by Iris Murdoch. Live or Die by Anne Sexton, first paperback, 1966. Signed special Ms. edition of Gloria Steinem’s Revolution from Within. First Edition of First Delights inscribed by Tasha Tudor. Inscribed first edition of Anne Sexton by Diane Middlebrook with press clippings enclosed.
Gift Support of Womb House Books
The best way to support your favorite bookstore is to simply buy books from them. But, if you’d like other avenues of support, The WHB Review will become a paid subscription starting in January. Support our work and writers by gifting a yearly subscription. You can also gift a donation in support of our imprint. Gifts of $250 or more will receive copies of the first five books we publish. With a gift of $500 or more, in addition to receiving the books, we’ll also acknowledge your name in the colophon of each edition.
Submissions for our publishing arm open February 2025.
Julia Vinograd Collection
The Julia Vinograd Collection. Thirteen books of poetry and a signed typed draft of "The Sproul Hall Sit-In." "Berkeley Street Cannibals" collection signed. "Darkness" signed. "Cannibal Crumbs" signed. "Blues for the Berkeley Inn" signed. "Blues for All of Us" signed. Also including "Beside Myself," "Face to Face," "Buttering the Wind," "Street Skins," "Suspicious Characters," "Against the Wall," "The Eyes Have It," and "Speed of Dark."
For Lads and Dads
First Book Club Edition of Dune by Frank Herbert, 1965. Book Club Edition of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe. First Edition of White Noise by Don DeLillo.
Goodnight Moon Board Game and Margaret Wise Brown Hat
Goodnight Moon Board Game: A Children’s Matching Game by Briarpatch with a WHB Margaret Wise Brown hat.
Restore Your Faith in Literature with Marguerite Young
Dalkey Archive blessed us this year with reissues of two books by Marguerite Young: her epic 1,198 page novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, and her history of two warring 19th century Utopian societies, Angel in the Forest. Be prepared to take notes of Young’s gorgeous sentences and mind-boggling lists with a notebook from Cambridge Imprint.
A Signed Copy of Our Favorite Book of the Year
Our copies of Liars, the best book of 2024, are signed by author Sarah Manguso.