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1 John FANTE. Ask the Dust. New York: Stackpole Sons (1939). First edition. A dampstain along the top of the boards, thus good in a good dustwrapper with a corresponding stain which is most visible on the rear panel, and with several small nicks. A flawed but presentable copy of a rare title. Basis for the 2006 film directed by Robert Towne, featuring Colin Farrell, Salma Hayek, and Donald Sutherland.

2 F. Scott FITZGERALD. The Beautiful and Damned. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1922. First edition. Contemporary owner name on the front fly, (“Linda Cleveland Iraughler 1922”), a couple of light spots on the front board, but the spine let- tering bright, a sound, very good copy without the uncommon dustwrapper. Inscribed by Fitzgerald in pencil above the owner’s name: “For Linda. Sincerely, F. Scott Fitzgerald.” Genuine Fitzgerald signatures have become very scarce.

3 (Photography). Chief Two Guns White Calf. Signed Photograph of Chief Two Guns White Calf. Glacier National Park: Hileman (no date - circa 1925). Cabinet photographic postcard. Approximately 2¾" x 4¼". Very light edgewear, an owner name and neat note identifying the Chief on the verso, just about fine. Signed by the subject with his usual pictograph of two rifles and a calf. The ink has run a little from the bottom of each rifle stock. Two Guns White Calf was the Blackfoot chief whose visage provided one of the most recognizable images of a Native American after his portrait appeared on 4 (Comic books). Fredric WERTHAM. the Indian head nickel in 1913. The Seduction of the Innocent. New York: Rinehart and sculptor claimed it was a composite Company (1954). image of several Native Americans, but First edition, first issue. Fine in the general consensus is that Two Guns a spine-faded, very good or bet- White Calf was the model. One theory ter dustwrapper that is unusu- was that the government wanted to deni- grate the Chief’s influence because he ally fresh. A report by a noted headed the Mad Dog Society, which was psychiatrist about the pernicious attempting to preserve Blackfoot culture, influence of comic books on and he might prevail on his tribesman to youth. This copy has the rare revolt. He became an attraction at Glacier bibliographical section listing the National Park where he posed with comic book publishers that had tourists and signed images; and became incurred Dr. Wertham’s ire. A a spokesman for the Northern Pacific threatened lawsuit resulted in the Railroad. He died of pneumonia in 1934. bibliography being excised by the His face also currently appears on the publisher from almost all copies. only pure gold one ounce coin issued by the U.S. government, beginning in 2005. Between the Covers ~2~ Catalogue 142 Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept checks, VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS, DISCOVER, and PayPal. Gift certificates available. Domestic orders please include $5.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom.

5 Ilse AICHINGER. The Bound Man and Other 6 (Anthology). Eugene Stories. New York: Noonday Press JOLAS and Robert (1956). SAGE, editors. Tran- First American edition. Translated from sition Stories. New York: the German by Eric Mosbacher. Fine in a very good or better dustwrapper with a Walter V. McKee 1929. small internal repair, and a faint erasure First edition. A little sunning at the on the front panel. Stories by a cel- spine ends, else near fine in very ebrated Austrian author born to a Jewish good, Politzer-illustrated dustwrap- father and a Christian mother, who per with some modest chipping. An often wrote about the persecution of her attractive copy of an important and family by the Nazis. In 2001, along with very scarce anthology of contribu- W.G. Sebald, she received the Joseph- tions from the magazine Transition. Breitbach-Preis. Very scarce title. Includes works by Franz Kafka, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Robert Desnos, Kurt Schwitters, Robert M. Coates, Peter Neagoe, and others. Editor’s Own Copy? 7 (Anthology). Eda Lou 9 (Anthology, Sixties). Edward LUCIE-SMITH, edited by. The WALTON, editor. Liverpool Scene: Recorded Live The City Day: An Along the Mersey Beat. London: Donald Anthology of Recent American Poetry. New Carroll (1967). York: The Ronald Press First edition. Laminated pictorial boards. One corner very slightly bumped, still easily fine. Company (1929). One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the First edition. Modest wear editor. Sixties poetry (the book is dedicated to to the edges of the boards, The Beatles) with photographs of and contri- and the spine slightly butions by Mike Evans, Henry Graham, Spike darkened, a very good Hawkins, Adrian Henri, Heather Holden, copy lacking the dustwrapper. Important anthology featur- Roger McGough, Brian Patten, and Pete Brown ing most of the more avant-garde American poets. Signed (who wrote lyrics for Cream). by the editor with her address on the front fly, quite pos- sibly an ownership signature. The text contains several small notes, underlinings, and check marks, which appear to be 10 (Architecture). Edward Durell STONE. The in Walton’s own hand. Walton was a New Mexico-born Ph.D. Evolution of an Architect. New York: Horizon Press 1962. who taught anthropology at NYU, and who was the “older woman” and muse of novelist First edition. Quarto. Fine in a modestly Henry Roth when he began his age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with great novel Call It Sleep. a short tear. Inscribed by the author and architect: “To my friend Lyda Nelson with love, Ed.” 8 (Architecture). LE Laid in is a typed note signed CORBUSIER. When the by a secretary on Stone’s let- Cathedrals Were White. New York: terhead, sending the book with Stone’s compliments. Reynal & Hitchcock 1947. Nelson was involved with First American edition. A little light offset- The Architect’s Emergency ting to the preliminary pages from a clipping, Committee in New York. else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Modern First Editions ~3~ New Arrivals

11 (Architecture). Frank Lloyd WRIGHT. A New House by Frank Lloyd Wright on Bear Run, Penn. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1938. First edition. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. (20)pp. Fine in wrappers and fine, printed wraparound band. One of 3000 copies printed at the Spiral Press, 1250 were reserved for members of the Museum. A beautiful copy of this catalogue illustrated with drawings and photos of Fallingwater.

12 (Art). Paul CADMUS. Prints and Drawings 1922-1967. New York: The Brooklyn Museum 1968. First edition. Illustrated papercovered boards. 66pp. Spine a little tanned, and rubbed at the extremities, else near fine. Signed by the artist on the titlepage. An illustrated hardcover exhibition catalogue.

13 W.H. AUDEN and Louis MacNEICE. Letters from Iceland. New York: Random House (1937). First edition. Rear endpapers offset from a clipping else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of 15 Djuna BARNES. small tape repairs. Signed by Auden on the title page. Auden’s celebrated “travel Spillway and Other book” of Iceland, which through prose, Stories. London: Faber and verse, and letters, captured the essence Faber (1962). of the remote land and in many ways Uncorrected proof. First edition foreshadowed the narrative, multi-fac- with this title and in this exact eted approach of John McPhee, Bruce form. Slightly sunned, else fine in wrappers. Chatwin, and others decades later.

14 — and Christopher ISHERWOOD. Journey Beckett’s First American to a War. New York: Random House Book Appearance (1939). 16 (Samuel BECKETT). Samuel Putnam, Maida Castelhun Darnton, George Reavey and J. Bronowski, edited by. European Caravan: An Anthology of the New Spirit First American edition, first issue bind- in European Literature. New ing. Rear endpapers and jacket flap York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam offset from clippings, else near fine in a 1931. lovely, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny First edition. Introductions by tear, and very slight toning at the spine. André Berge, Massimo Bontempelli, Signed by Auden on the title page. Jean Cassou, and E. Giménez Cabellero. Light foxing, near fine in a slightly spine-tanned, near fine dustwrap- per with a couple of tears and tiny nicks. Contains the first book appearance of Samuel Beckett in the United States. Additional contributors include W.H. Auden, H.D., T.S. Eliot, Dorothy Richardson, William Empson, Nancy Cunard, Hugh MacDiarmid, Tristan Tzara, Francis Picabia, Jean Cocteau, Robert Desnos, Blaise Cendrars, and others. Stated as Part I, this was the only volume published. An attractive copy of an important anthology.

17 Samuel BECKETT. Echo’s Bones and Other Precipitates. Paris: Europa Press 1935.

First edition. Self-wrappers. Very good or better with a bit of off-setting to the wrappers, and the bottom corner a trifle bumped. Of a total of 327 copies, this is one of 250 numbered copies on alfa paper. A nice copy of an early and scarce title. Between the Covers ~4~ Catalogue 1 4 2

18 Samuel 19 Brendan 20 John 21 Saul BELLOW. BECKETT. The BEHAN. Richard’s BERRYMAN. Keynote address of Saul Unnamable. New York: Cork Leg. London: Eyre Homage to Mistress Bellow before the Inaugural Grove Press (1958). Methuen (1973). Bradstreet. New York: Session of the XXXIV Farrar, Straus & Cudahy International P.E.N. (1956). Congress. New York: 34th International P.E.N. Congress 1966.

First American edition, trade First edition. Fine in fine issue. Translated from the dustwrapper. Author’s last French by the author. Fine in play, published posthumously. First edition. Illustrated by Ben very good dustwrapper with This hardcover issue is very Shahn. Fine in fine dustwrap- two small chips and a couple uncommon. per. A beautiful copy. of short tears. The third book First edition. Nine mimeo- in his trilogy, the trade issue is 22 Hermann BROCH. graphed leaves, printed rectos exceptionally scarce in jacket. Die Schuldlosen: Roman only, stapled in the upper left- Curiously, the limited edition hand corner. Fine. of 100 copies seems more com- in Elf Erzählungen. Zürich: mon than acceptable copies of Rhein-Verlag 1950. the trade edition. First edition. Text in German, not published in English translation until 1974 as The Guiltless. Fine 23 Bob BROWN. in fine dustwrapper with a touch Globe-Gliding. Diessen: of soiling. Advance Review Copy Roving Eye Press 1930. with slip laid in from the publisher, addressed to the New York Times.

24 Mary BUTTS. Ashe of Rings. (Paris: Three Mountains Press and 25 (Boxing). Jack Contact Editions 1925). DEMPSEY, with Barbara Piattelli Dempsey. Dempsey by Jack Dempsey. New York: Harper & Row (1977).

First edition. Fine in fine First edition. Printed purple dustwrapper. Inscribed by wrappers. Near fine. both Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey, as well as by someone else asso- ciated with the book signing event where the Dempsey’s signed. First edition. Green printed self-wrap- Dempsey was an enthusiastic signer, but this particular title is sur- pers. Modest erosion at the spine ends, prisingly scarce signed. a bright, very good or better copy. An attractive copy of this uncommon novel about the English post-war generation. Modern First Editions ~5~ New Arrivals

26 William BURROUGHS. Naked Lunch. (New York): 28 Italo CALVINO. Grove Press (1959). Italian Fables. New York: First American edition. Fine in a very good Orion Press (1959). or better dustwrapper with some small tears. Signed by the author. Basis for the David Cronenberg film featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider.

27 —. Time. New York: ‘C’ Press 1965. First edition. With four drawings by Brion Gysin. Quarto. Stapled wrappers. A trifle offset on the rear panel, still easily fine.

29 Truman CAPOTE. Other Voices, Other Rooms. New York: Random House (1948). First American edition. Square First edition. Fine in very good dust- small quarto. Translated by wrapper with a small chip at the Louis Brigante. Illustrated by crown, and a couple of short tears. A Michael Train. Light offsetting presentable copy of the author’s first to the half-title, fine in fine book. dustwrapper. Reprinted several times, this first American edi- 30 —. Local Color. London: William tion is scarce, and this is an Heinemann (1950). unusually nice copy. First English edition. Fine in near very good original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with 33 Austin CLARKE. chipping on the spine. One of 200 num- bered copies. Illustrated with photographs Forget-Me-Not. Dublin: by Cecil Beaton, Henri Cartier-Bresson, The Dolmen Press 1962. Hoynigen-Huene, and others.

31 Truman CAPOTE and Harold ARLEN. Souvenir Program for House of Flowers. (New York: Passantino (1955).

Stapled wrappers. Quarto. Fine in illustrat- ed wrappers. Large souvenir program for Capote’s light-hearted musical about the goings-on at two competing broth- els in the West Indies. The show was head- lined by Pearl Bailey, with a cast that included Alvin Ailey, Diahann Carroll, Geoffrey Holder, and Sabu. This program is Inscribed by Capote to Pearl Bailey at his photograph in the program: “Dear Pearl – Thank you for all you First edition. Thin quarto. Top do. Truman Capote.” Capote and corner a little bumped else fine Bailey are pictured in the program in marbled papercovered boards clowning around, either holding hands with applied printed label, in or arm-wrestling, a competition in which the tiny terror would near fine unprinted glassine almost surely come out second best. A wonderful association. dustwrapper. One of 200 num- bered copies Signed by the poet. Complimentary slip from The 32 COLETTE as Colette Willy. Barks and Purrs. New Dolmen Press laid in. York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc. 1913. First American edition. Translated by Maire Kelly. Slight wear at the extrem- ities, some smudging on the rear board, a near fine copy without dustwrap- per. Likely the great French author’s first book published in the U.S. Between the Covers ~6~ Catalogue 1 4 2

34 Cyril 35 Joseph CONRAD. Youth and Two CONNOLLY. The Other Stories. New York: McClure, Phillips and Rock Pool. Paris: The Co. 1903. Obelisk Press (1936). First American edition. Bound in contemporary red half-morocco and marbled papercovered boards. First edition. Self-wrap- Binding ticket of McNamee Binder of Cambridge, pers. A small stain on Massachusetts, and bookplate of Birdsall Otis Edey the front wrap, and a (an early organizer and President of the Girl Scouts of little overall age-toning, a America), both on the front pastedown, some rubbing sound, at least very good at the extremities, else a nice, very good copy. First copy. The author’s first appearance of Conrad’s most famous work, his canoni- book. Scarce. cal novella The Heart of Darkness, one of the most influential, anthologized and studied short novels ever written. Conrad’s richly metaphoric, enigmatic, timeless, Oedipal journey down the Congo River set a new literary standard. 36 Gregory Connolly 100. Only a President of the Girls Scouts could truly understand the CORSO. The Heart of Darkness! Vestal Lady on Brattle and Other Hart Crane’s First Book Appearance Poems. Cambridge, 37 (Anthology). (Hart CRANE). Massachusetts: Richard A Pagan Anthology: Composed of Brukenfeld 1955. Poems by Contributors to the Pagan First edition. Cover by Magazine. New York: Pagan Publishing Co. Nick Cikovsky. Tiny ink (1918). inscription: “To Nick First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards from her roomy” on the with applied printed paper label. A short tear first leaf, modest offset- on the front fly, edge wear to the paper on the ting to the front and rear boards, a very good copy. Among the contribu- wraps, slight spine-tanning, else near fine in wrappers. tions are two poems by Hart Crane, thus com- The author’s first book, one of 500 copies. prising his first book appearance.

38 Harry CROSBY. The Collected Poems of Harry Crosby: 39 E.L. DOCTOROW. Big Chariot of the Sun; Transit of Venus; Sleeping Together; [and] Torchbearer. As Life. New York: Simon and Schuster Paris: Black Sun Press 1931. (1966). First edition. A faint dampstain along First editions. Four volumes, complete. Chariot of the the edge of the front fly and a few tiny Sun, with Introduction by D.H. Lawrence; Transit dampspots of Venus, with Preface by T.S. Eliot; Sleeping Together, on the page with a Memory of the Poet by Stuart Gilbert; and edges, else Torchbearer, with Notes by Ezra Pound. Octavos. Fine near fine in in original printed wrappers, and fine glassine dust- near fine wrappers, in near fine original red cloth publisher’s dustwrap- slipcase with a little sunning. Set number 54 of 500 per with a numbered sets. couple of tiny tears. This copy bears the owner- ship signature (“Ratzkin”) of the book’s jacket design- er Lawrence Ratzkin. A pleasing asso- ciation copy of Doctorow’s very uncommon second book. Modern First Editions ~7~ New Arrivals

40 H.D. [Hilda DOOLITTLE]. 41 Daphne Du MAURIER. Frenchman’s Palimpsest. Paris: Contact Edition Creek. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1926. 1942. First edition. First American edition. Advance Reading Copy in self-wrap- Self-wrap- pers illustrated by Amram Gittelson. A little edgewear, a very pers. A bit near fine copy. Because of the paper shortage in war-torn of modest Britain, the American was the first hardcover edition (as per erosion to several printed production notes bound into this advance edi- the paper tion). Basis for the 1944 film directed by Mitchell Leisen and on the featuring Joan Fontaine. spine, a very good copy. Signed by 43 Robert the author DUNCAN. in the year Fragments of a of publica- Disordered Devo- 44 Lawrence tion: “H.D. tion. San Francisco and DURRELL. Acte. London 1926.” The author’s first novel. Toronto: Gnomon and London: Faber and Faber Island (1966). (1965). 42 Gustav ECKSTEIN. The First edition, first issue, Pet Shop. New York: Harper and with the original cover art Brothers (1944). that was suppressed and later redrawn by Duncan. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. Fine in a very good dust- 45 T.S. ELIOT. wrapper with a couple of Geoffrey Faber 1889- tears and small 1961. London: Faber and Faber internal repairs. (1961). Allegorical First edition. Fine in papercov- play about the ered boards. One of 100 num- world during bered copies of this rare little Uncorrected proof. Printed WWII as a pet memorial address, this copy is brown wrappers. Fine. An shop in tur- unnumbered, press lettered “out uncommon format of this play. moil. Inscribed by the author to Tallulah of series,” and is unsigned. Bankhead: “For Tallulah Bankhead with friendliness, Gustav Eckstein.” 47 Loren EISELEY. The Brown Wasps: A Collection of Three Essays in Autobiography. Mount Horeb: The Perishable Press Limited 1969.

First edition. Illustrated by Jack Beal. Bound by Douglas Cockerell and Son using three different marbled papers. Tiny bump to one corner, still eas- ily fine in marbled papercov- ered boards. Colophon states 46 Stanley ELKIN. A Bad Man. that there were 200 copies New York: Random House (1967). on Charter Oak paper, and First edition. fifty-six copies on Shadwell, Bottom corners a although a laid in printed bit bumped, very statement from the publisher good or better in asserts that there were only very good dustwrap- 185 copies on Charter Oak. This appears to be one of the per with a tear on the rear panel, and other light fifty-six on Shadwell. One of the AIGA’s 50 best designed wear. Signed by the author, his third book and books of the year. Easily Eiseley’s scarcest book. second novel. Between the Covers ~8~ Catalogue 1 4 2

48 Ralph ELLISON. Inscribed by Kenneth Patchen Shadow and Act. 49 Louis M. ELSHEMUS [a.k.a. London: Secker and Eilshemius]. The Devil’s Diary. New Warburg (1967). York: The Abbey Press (1901). First English edition. First edition. A small owner’s label, modest soil- Foredge, and the first and ing and slight erosion at the base of the spine, and last few pages foxed, else a small section of offsetting to a couple of pages, near fine in near fine dust- a very good or better copy. Inscribed by Kenneth wrapper. Inscribed by the Patchen to a friend: “for Arthur in the hope that author: “For Frederic Cole, this volume of Elshemus’ prose will give you even With sincere best wishes, a tenth-part of the pleasure which you had of his Ralph Ellison.” The sec- painting. (1) Bill (2) Kenneth (3) David September ond book by the author of 1945.” The entire inscription is in Patchen’s hand Invisible Man, this except for the names “Bill” and “David.” Bill is Bill is a collection of Shank, a poet (a volume of his poetry was published by William Everson’s pacifist essays written over Untide Press), and his signature and return address are laid in on a corner of a two decades. mailing label. We don’t know who David is. Elshemus was an idiosyncratic New Jersey-born poet and painter who achieved little success in his life- time, but whose work has become of increas- 50 William FAULKNER. ing interest to art col- Knight’s Gambit. New York: lectors and museums. OCLC locates no copies. Random House 1949. First edition. Fine in a very good or bet- ter dustwrapper with some small chips at the spine ends and a little edgewear. 51 Lawrence A nice, presentable copy of this col- FERLINGHETTI. A Coney Island of the Mind. lection of stories featuring the lawyer, (New York): New Directions (1958). Gavin Stevens, as the central character. First edition. Printed wrappers. Pages The story “Tomorrow” was adapted browned, some rubbing to the wrappers, by Horton Foote, first into a teleplay, then a stage production, and a very good copy. Author’s first book. finally as an interesting 1972 film starring Robert Duvall in a perfor- mance that foreshadowed Billy Bob Thornton’s character in Slingblade. Queen’s Quorum. 54 [Mahatma 53 Ford Madox FORD Mohandas] 52 [F.M. Hueffer]. Women & (Ronald FIRBANK). GANDHI. Ifan Kyrle Fletcher. Men. Paris: Three Mountains Press Ronald An Auto- Firbank: A Memoir. With Personal 1923. biogra Reminiscences by Lord Berners, First edition. Printed wrappers. A Augustus John, V.B. Holland, and Contact Editions label on the title phy: The Osbert Sitwell. London: Duckworth 1930. page, mild edgewear, a very nice, Story of My near fine copy. Copy number 48 of Experiments with Truth. First edition. Fine 300 London: Phoenix in a very nice, near num- fine dustwrapper bered Press 1949. with slight fading copies. First English edi- on the spine to tion. Translated by the delicate purple Mahadev Desai. Small ink, and a couple clippings affixed to the front of tiny tears. A and rear endpapers, offset- superior copy of an ting to the blanks from other uncommon book, clippings, thus very good in reminiscences of a modestly spine-faded, else the idiosyncratic near fine dustwrapper with a English author. little rubbing at the crown. Scarce in jacket. Modern First Editions ~9~ New Arrivals

55 Dennis GABOR. Innovations: 56 Allen GINSBERG. Ankor Wat. Scientific, Technological, and Social. (London): (London): Fulcrum Press (1968). Oxford University Press First edition, limited issue. Fine in fine, price-clipped 1970. dustwrapper (we suspect the limited issue jackets were First edition. Fine in very all price-clipped). One of 100 copies hand-numbered good dustwrapper with a and Signed by the author, this is copy number 99. couple of creases on the front flap and toning to 57 (—). Ann Charters, compiled by. the spine. Inscribed by the Scenes Along the Road: Photographs author: “To Merilee and of the Desolation Angels 1944-1960… George with love Dennis.” with three poems and comments by Allen Gabor won the 1971 Ginsberg. (New York): Portents/Gotham Book Nobel Prize for physics for Mart (1970). his “invention and devel- First edition. Thin opment of the holographic quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a faint stain principle.” This title con- at the bottom of the front panel. One of 200 hard- tains a fair bound copies. amount of material on holography. 60 Alec GUINNESS. My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor. London: Hamish 58 Thom GUNN. The Fantasy Poets. Hamilton (1996). Thom Gunn. Number Sixteen. Oxford: Fantasy First edition. Press 1953. Preface by John First edition. Stapled wrap- Le Carré. Fine in pers. Fine. A beautiful copy fine dustwrap- of the author’s exceptionally uncom- per. Signed and mon first book, a slim pamphlet dated by the issued as Number Sixteen in The actor in the year Fantasy Poets series. of publication. 59 —. Fighting Terms. New York: Hawk’s Well Press 1958.

First American edition. Fine in self- wrappers. Author’s first substantial book. Very scarce.

61 Ron HANSEN. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert 62 Anthony HECHT. A Ford. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. Summoning of Stones. New York: First edition. Just about fine in very good dustwrapper Macmillan Company 1954. with some sunning, and a razor cut on the front panel. Inscribed by Hansen to fellow First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good or author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife: “For Nick and better dustwrap- Elena in appreciation for your friendship and admiration. per with small Affectionately, Ron Hansen.” Author’s second novel, and chips at the spine basis for the acclaimed Andrew Dominik film starring ends. Author Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Rockwell, and Sam Shepard. Arthur Mizener’s Allegedly Pitt copy with his insisted that the small bookplate factual novel retain on the front past- its somewhat edown. Hecht’s ungainly title for first book. the film version. Between the Covers ~10~ Catalogue 1 4 2

63 Ernest HEMINGWAY. 64 John HERSEY. To Have and Have Not. Hiroshima. New York: Alfred A. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Knopf 1946. 1937. First edition. Fine in a very good or bet- First edition. Light chipping to two ter dustwrapper with slight toning, and facing pages in the text which were a faint crease on the spine. A much nicer roughly opened, thus near fine in a than usual copy of this book that origi- lightly rubbed, but bright and fine nally appeared as a complete issue of The dustwrapper. Basis, albeit somewhat New Yorker. loosely, for the classic Howard Hawks film, scripted by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, and starring 65 Ha JIN. Waiting. New Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall York: Pantheon Books (1999). in her debut. A nicer than usual copy. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrap- per. Nicely Inscribed by Jin to fellow 66 Henry JAMES. The Bostonians. New York: author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife: Macmillan and Co. 1886. “To Nick & Elena: With deep respect and First American edition, in what is con- gratitude, Ha Jin 5/13/00.” Additionally sidered the first binding: orange cloth Signed in full above his name on the half- with maroon spine. Light pencil gift title. Winner of the National inscription, endpapers Book Award for Fiction. display a little stress at the hinges, but are intact, a near fine, 67 Randall considerably bet- JARRELL. ter than usual copy. James’ novel of the Pictures From an rising feminist move- Institution. New York: ment, and one of the Alfred A. Knopf 1955. first major novels to portray lesbianism. First edition. A little fox- ing to the spine, a very good copy in a rubbed, very good 68 (James JOYCE). Samuel dustwrapper. Signed by the BECKETT and others. Our author. Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of Work In Progress. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1929.

Jarrell’s first and only novel, a First edition. With letters of protest by satirical portrait of a progressive G.V.L. Slingsby and Vladimir Dixon. Self- all-female college not unlike wrappers as issued. Mostly unopened. A tiny Sarah Lawrence, where he chip at one corner of the front wrap else very taught after the war. Not near fine. Prospectus for the book laid in. perfect, but a handsome Contributors include Samuel Beckett, Marcel copy of a book usually Brion, Frank Budgen, Stuart Gilbert, Eugene found well-worn. Jolas, Victor Llona, Robert McAlmon, Thomas McGreevy, Elliot Paul, John Rodker, Robert Sage, 69 Kenneth KOCH and Larry and William Carlos RIVERS. When the Sun Tries to Go Williams. Beckett’s contribution is his first appear- On. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1969. ance in print. A tribute to James Joyce that also con- First edition. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Cloth with tains brief quotations from Work In Progress including mounted cardboard collage by Rivers in original text which was not later incorporated into Finnegans unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Fine. One of 200 Wake. The “Letters of Protest” are reputed to have numbered copies Signed by both Koch and Rivers. been written by Joyce himself. A very nice copy. Modern First Editions ~11~ New Arrivals

70 Ring LARDNER 71 Philip LEVINE. Selected and Nina Wilcox Poems. New York: Atheneum 1984. Putnam. Say It With First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a Oil: A Few Remarks bit of subtle sunning. About Wives. New York: Signed by the author George H. Doran (1923). on the title-page, and additionally Inscribed First edition. Bound dos-a-dos by Levine to fel- with Say It With Bricks: A Few low author Nicholas Remarks About Husbands by Delbanco: “August 22, Nina Wilcox Putnam. Edges ’86 For Del Banco the of the papercovered boards a Nick Here in fabled little worn but still near fine land of poems & sto- in near fine dustwrapper with tiny bits of loss at the crown. ries & friendship. Sincerely, Phil.” Lardner and Putnam’s contribution to the war of the sexes. Uncommon in a nice jacket. 73 Bernard MALAMUD. The Stories of Bernard Malamud. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux 1983. 72 Barry LOPEZ. About First edition. Fine in very near fine dust- This Life: Journeys on the wrapper with a tiny nick at the crown. Threshold of Memory. New York: Inscribed by Malamud to author Nicholas Delbanco and his wife: “For Ellen and Nick Alfred A. Knopf 1998. Delbanco First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. – our dear Nicely Inscribed by Lopez to fellow friends, author Nicholas Delbanco: “Nick – my With love, humble crew – Barry.” Bern.” Delbanco and Malamud both taught at Bennington.

74 Senator Joseph R. McCARTHY. 75 H.L. MENCKEN. The Gist of Nietzsche. Boston: America’s Retreat from Victory: The Story of John W. Luce & Company 1910. George Catlett Marshall. New York: Devin-Adair Company First edition. Cloth and paper labels. Fine, lacking the unprinted glassine dustwrapper. 1951. One of Mencken’s earliest works, commis- First edition, wrappered issue. sioned by his publisher after his 1908 book Price effaced from the front wrap, The Philosophy of Nietzsche. The German clipping on the rear blank, pages philosopher’s primary attraction for, and a little influence upon, the young but individualis- toned, tic American was in his tone and his rejec- and tion of previously held beliefs. In plowing some through the complete works of Nietzsche, in spot- German, the twenty-six year old Mencken ting to formed many of the first the thoughts and hand- opinions to be found in his later work. ful of pages, 76 —. Lo, the Poor Bookseller. a very good copy. Inscribed by the (Hollywood, California: Stanley Rose Ltd. Commie-hunter and demagogue: The Picador Press) 1930. “To Fred and Mimi Woltman, With First edition. Stapled wrappers with applied sincere good wishes, Joe McCarthy.” label on the rear wrap, as issued. 9, (3)pp. A very interesting association: Fred Woltman was a right wing Offsetting on the front wrap, a near fine journalist and notorious “red hunter” for the New York World- copy. Offprint of an essay reprinted from The Telegram. Woltman later changed course, however, coming American Mercury about the poor state of under heavy scrutiny for writing a series of articles criticizing booksellers and bookselling on the heels of the McCarthy and his methods in Time magazine in 1954. Crash. Between the Covers ~12~ Catalogue 1 4 2

77 W.S. MERWIN. The 78 (Military). Michael J. McKEOGH and Lice. New York: Atheneum (1979). Richard LOCKRIDGE. Sgt. Mickey and General Ike. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1946). First edition. Fine in near fine dust- First edition. Introduction by Harry C. Butcher. Offsetting to the end- wrapper with a few small splashmarks, papers from the jacket flaps, slight wear to the boards, else a near fine mostly on the front panel. This hard- copy in a moderately worn, overall good dustwrapper with some chips cover issue is surprisingly scarce. and tears. From the jacket copy: “An intimate portrait of a great man by his friend, orderly and confidant.” This copy Inscribed by McKeogh to the subject of the book, General Dwight D. Eisenhower using the entire front fly: “5-24-46 To my Boss. General D.D. Eisenhower. Dear General, I hope this book shows in some way what you mean to me and what you shall always mean to me, Pearlie, and Mary Ann and those that may follow. If the years of my life that are to fol- low are half as happy as the four years spent with you I shall be a very contented man. May you always enjoy the best of health and happiness. Mickey.” Feel free to wait for a better association copy.

79 Henry MILLER. The 81 Yukio Cosmological Eye. Norfolk, MISHIMA. Connecticut: New Directions (1939). Twilight Sun- flower: A Play in Four Acts. Tokyo: The Hokuseido First edition, Press 1958. first state. First edition in English. Translated from the Japanese by Sigeho Offsetting from Sinozaki and Virgil A. Warren. Self-wrappers. Fine. Very scarce. a clipping and a crease, both on the half-title, 82 Iris MURDOCH. else near fine The Bell. London: Chatto in a very lightly & Windus and The Book rubbed, near Society 1958. fine dustwrap- First edition. A bookplate on per. Miller’s first the front pastedown, a tiny American pub- tear to the edge of one leaf lication. A nice caused by a printer’s slight copy. error, else fine in fine dust- 80 —. The Colossus of wrapper. Signed by the author. Maroussi. San Francisco: Colt Press (1941). 83 (Mystery). First edition. A small owner’s label, and Thomas HARRIS. offsetting to several blank leaves, else near Black Sunday. New fine in near fine dustwrapper with York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1975). modest soiling Book club edition. Near fine in a well-used, very good dust- and a little dark- wrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author to a neighbor and ening to the white friend: “For Jane with pleasant memories of playing word portions of the games in Sag Harbor. spine. Advance Thomas Harris.” Author’s Review Copy first book and basis for with a four-page the John Frankenheimer film. Harris lived in Europe mimeographed for many years, his signature is among the scarcest autobiographi- of contemporary authors, and in particular is seldom cal statement by found as part of a personal association. Miller laid in, and very scarce thus. Modern First Editions ~13~ New Arrivals

84 (Mystery). Sue GRAFTON. Keziah Dane. New York: Macmillan (1967). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a very small crease on the edge of the front flap, and a little rub- bing at the corners of the crown. A nice copy of the author’s scarce first book, a non-mystery published almost two decades before her Kinsey Milhone books. A very attractive copy.

85 (Music). Anton RUBINSTEIN. A Conversation on Music. New York: Chas. F. Tretbar 1892. First edition. Translated by Mrs. John P. Morgan. Neat contemporary owner’s name, cor- ners very slightly bumped, else fine.

86 Flannery O’CONNOR. Everything That Rises Must Converge. London: Faber & Faber (1966). Uncorrected Proof of the first English edition. Two tiny staple holes on the front wrap else fine in unprinted wrappers. A desirable advance state of this classic collec- tion of short stories, the scarcity of which can be judged by the fact that only 2000 copies of the trade edition were printed.

87 Kenneth PATCHEN. The Journal of Albion Moonlight. (New York: Kenneth Patchen 1941). First edition, limited issue. Quarter red cloth and marbled papercovered boards. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else fine cardboard slipcase with printed spine label. Prospectus for the edition laid in, with statements by Patchen and Henry Miller, stating that: “The printing of this book was made possible by fifty people who paid ten dol- lars in advance for a copy of the signed, numbered, deluxe edition. Among these subscribers were Van Wyck Brooks, Maxwell Perkins, E.E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Stephen Vincent Benet, Paul Rosenfeld, John Peale Bishop, Waldo Frank, William Lescaze, Peter Monro Jack, John Slocum, James Laughlin, Louis Untermeyer, Julien Levy, and Sinclair Lewis.” This is copy number 50 of the 50 subscribers’ copies Signed by the author. A very uncommon issue sold by Patchen personally from his home.

88 —. CCCLXXIV Poems. (New York: Padell 1948). First edition, limited issue. A book bound up from the sheets of three other books published by Padell. The Morgan bibliography calls for a black linen binding, this is a possible variant, in gray linen binding. Modest offsetting to a blank page at the rear from a clipping, else fine in a lightly edgeworn, near fine blue buckram dustwrapper custom- made by the author’s wife, with an applied paper-label, and titled in hand by Patchen on the spine. Tipped-in label designating this as copy #41 of 126 numbered copies Signed by the author. A very uncommon issue sold by Patchen personally from his home.

89 (Photography). Arnold GENTHE. Old Chinatown: A Book of Pictures. New York: Mitchell Kennerley (1912). Second edition, and the first edition thus, greatly enlarged from the 1908 edition. Octavo. Black cloth stamped in red and gilt. A small owner’s label on the front pastedown, else fine and bright, without dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. Between the Covers ~14~ Catalogue 1 4 2

90 (Photography). Erskine CALDWELL and Margaret BOURKE-WHITE. You Have Seen Their Faces. New York: The Viking Press 1937. First edition. Large quarto. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Endpapers a trifle soiled, a near fine copy in an attractive and presentable very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Caldwell’s essay accom- panies his then-wife Bourke-White’s photographs of sharecroppers. Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, p. 140-141; Hasselblad, The Open Book, p. 124-125; Roth. The Book of 101 Books, p. 94-95.

91 (Photography). Joseph SZABO. Teenage. (Los Angeles: Grey Bull Press 2003). First edition. Introduction by Cameron Crowe. Oblong quarto. Photographic cloth boards. Top corner a little bumped just affecting the top corner of the pages, else a nice, near fine copy. One of 4000 casebound copies. Images taken by the photographer when he was teaching photography in a Long Island high school from 1972 through 1999, but seemingly with some emphasis on the ’70s and ’80s. A nice copy of an interesting book, the hard- cover issue is very uncommon.

92 Harold PINTER. Poems. (London): Enitharmon Press (1971). Second edition, and the first edition thus with nine additional poems added to the 1968 edition, six of which were unpublished elsewhere. Quarter black morocco and red cloth. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Errata slip laid in. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author, this is copy number three, and additionally it has been Inscribed by Pinter.

93 Sylvia PLATH. Uncollected Poems. London: Turret Books 1965. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers and fine dust- wrapper with nominal spotting on the rear wrap. One of 150 numbered copies.

94 —. Wreath for 97 Katherine Anne PORTER. Ship a Bridal. Farnham, of Fools. Boston: Little, Brown (1962). Surrey: The Sceptre Press First edition. Fine in 1970. very near fine dustwrap- First edition. Fine in per with a short tear, stapled wrappers and fine and a finger puncture in publisher’s unprinted tis- the front gutter. Signed sue dustwrapper. One of by the author on the 100 copies. half-title. Basis for the 95 —. Crossing 1965 Stanley Kramer- directed film featuring a the Water. London: wonderful cast including Faber and Faber (1971). Vivien Leigh, Simone Signoret, José Ferrer, Lee Uncorrected proof. Slight Marvin, Oskar Werner, age-toning, else fine in Elizabeth Ashley, wrappers. George Segal, and Michael 96 —. Crystal Dunn, among Gazer. London: others. The Rainbow Press 1971. film won a couple of Oscars, and was nominated for several more First edition. Fine in a including Best Picture. A nice copy of the author’s lightly rubbed, very near fine slipcase. One of 300 best known work. numbered copies bound in quarter buckram and Japanese paper boards. Modern First Editions ~15~ New Arrivals

98 Reynolds PRICE. A Generous Man. New York: Atheneum 1966. Uncorrected proof. Spiral bound in blue card covers with applied label. Pages printed rectos only. A trifle soiled, still easily fine. Laid in is a separate sheet with a printed autobiographical statement by Price. A very uncommon proof, presumably issued in very small numbers. There is also a relatively common advance reading copy which was issued later.

99 —. Late Warning. New York: Albondocani Press 1968. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author, this copy is letter G. 101 Adrienne Cecile RICH. Adrienne 100 — same Cecile Rich: The Fantasy Poets. (Swinford: The Fantasy title. New 102 Pauline REAGE. York: Albon- Press 1952). Story of O. New York: docani Press First edition. Stapled wrappers. Grove Press (1965). (8)pp. Staples slightly oxidized 1968. else fine. Poetry. A rare little First edition. pamphlet. Fine in self- wrappers. One of 150 num- bered copies Signed by the author, this is copy number 4. 103 (Science-Fiction). Charles BEAUMONT. The Hunger and Other Stories. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1957). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of the author’s first book, a classic selection of horror fiction and a very scarce title. Beaumont is a favor- First American edition. Fine ite of genre aficionados and many of his stories were the basis for some of the in fine white dustwrapper best episodes on The Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, and The Hitchcock Hour. with a slight discoloration on the rear panel. A much nicer than usual copy of the classic 104 Wallace STEGNER. French erotic novel. 105 Anne SEXTON Angle of Repose. Garden City: Transformations Doubleday 1971. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1971. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper First edition. Foreword by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Illustrations by with a few short tears, one on the front panel. Barbara Swan. Fine in about fine tissue dustwrapper and fine A nice copy of a book which shows wear slipcase as issued. One of 500 copies Signed by the author. readily. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.

106 William STAFFORD. Eleven Untitled Poems. (Mt. Horeb): Perishable Press 1968. First edition. Fine in wrappers, and fine dustwrapper. One of 250 numbered copies. Scarce. Between the Covers ~16~ Catalogue 1 4 2

107 William STYRON. Sophie’s 108 (Titanic). John J. FRIEND. Choice. New York: Random House (1979). [Broadside]: The Loss of the Steam- ship Titanic: In Loving Remembrance of First edition, special edition for friends of the publisher those Who Lost Their and author. Fine in very good unprinted glassine dust- Lives on Board the wrapper, with some offset areas. Letter from a Random Steamship Titanic. House Vice President laid in, presenting the book. Bangor, Maine: (no pub- The first trade edition had a large printing, thus this lisher 1912). special edition is particularly desirable. Meryl Streep Broadside. Approximately won an Oscar for her portrayal of the title character in 13¾" by 8¾". Very near the 1982 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, which also fine, with just a little featured Kevin Kline and Peter MacNicol. A Burgess 99 darkening along the top title and winner of the National Book Award. and bottom edges and some light marking to the top right corner. 109 Booth TARKINGTON and Post Wheeler. The Hon. Contains an 80-line Julius Caesar. A Travesty With Music in Three Acts. Presented by poem in ten stanzas com- The Princeton University Triangle Club 1918-1919. Cincinnati: The John memorating the victims of the Titanic disaster, with Church Company 1919. a reproduction of a photograph of the doomed vessel First edition thus, revised by John Biggs, with additional lyrics by several others. above the title. Friend was a Bangor poet whose works Quarto. Canvas spine and pictorial wrappers. Chips to the bottom front wrap were published in broadside form on topics of local and corners of the first few pages, interest, many (although not this one) later collected affecting no text, soiling and small in Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks. With spots to the wraps, a good copy. 110 Robert Penn a newspaper clipping from the May 3, 1912 Boston Musical score for the Triangle play. WARREN. All the King’s Post showing the grieving widow and child of the OCLC Men. ship’s Captain E.J. Smith. OCLC indicates only one locates New York: other copy available, in a different format (priority two Harcourt, unknown). copies. Brace and Company (1946). First edition. Lighly worn, very good in a good or better, first issue dust- wrapper with several modest chips and tears. Signed by the author in a later, slightly infirm hand. A presentable copy of this great American novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Robert Rossen wrote and directed the excellent 1949 film adaptation, which won the Best Picture Oscar, as well as Oscars for Broderick Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge (in her screen debut). Also remade in 2006 with an all-star cast.

One of Fifty Sets for Presentation 111 H.G. WELLS. The Works of H.G. Wells, Atlantic Edition. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1924-1927. First edition, American issue. 28 volumes, complete. Tall octavos. Quarter cloth and paper-covered boards with paper spine labels. Labels uniformly age-toned and a little rubbed, a few corners rubbed, still a very attractive, near fine set. Of the 1050 sets for America, this is one of 50 sets reserved for presentation, with the note “This is one of the fifty sets for Presentation” neatly handwritten across the limitation statements in each of the 28 volumes. Signed by Wells below the statement in Volume One. In the place reserved for the number, the symbol “#” appears in each volume. Shipping at cost.