BETWEEN THE COVERS RARE BOOKS, INC. www.betweenthecovers.com 112 Nicholson Rd (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] C ATALOG 150: Selections from the Library of Tracy Callahan Welcome to Catalog 150, mostly selections from the Library of What fun collecting on that one... Tracy Callahan, with a few additions to fill up the random white I’m told by Dan that since this is Catalog 150, it should be some spaces. Tracy bought these books over a period of about a decade sort of august landmark (witness Tom Bloom’s celebratory cover and a half, a fair proportion of them from us, and his visits to our art), but aside from having the usual nice complement of books, shop were always pleasant and convivial. I’m not sure what that significance would be. Perhaps it should be This is not to say that Tracy was demure. Indeed he is the only called “Gala Catalog 150: The One Before Gala Catalog 151!” client of ours who, I have it on good authority, was thrown out of Or not. a Beverly Hills hotel because The Rolling Stones complained that However, anyone seeking to celebrate Catalog 150 by buying his party was too wild! Presumably this is no mean achievement, the entire contents of the catalogue will be suitably revered by us, although obviously aging rock stars need their beauty sleep too. and probably earn a special mention in my probably-never-to-be- There was also the time when one of his many girlfriends written memoirs. bought from us an expensive book for Tracy’s Christmas present, Tom C. but hadn’t finished paying for it by the time he broke up with her. Terms of Sale All books are First Editions unless otherwise noted. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. 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Inscribed by the author to important African- (1980). American collector Clarence Holte. Nigerian author’s internationally acclaimed first novel, about the clash between Western and traditional First edition. African cultures. The black jacket Fine in fine is always very rubbed, this copy is dustwrapper. much less so than usual, and the True-to-life book is seldom found signed or account of the inscribed. machinations of con-man Abagnale. Basis for the Steven Spielberg film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, 4 Martin AMIS. Christopher Walken, and Martin Sheen. A Money: A Suicide scarce first edition from a publisher usually Note. London: Jonathan associated with reprints. Cape (1984). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by 3 Winifred BLACK. Dope: The Story of the Living Dead. New York: Star Company 1928. the author. First edition. Foreword by Fremont Older. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with edgewear and a short tear on the spine. Exceptionally uncommon in jacket. Pseudonym Revealed 5 ANONYMOUS [pseudonym of Anabel Lane]. Hollywood Wife. New York: G. Howard Watt 1931. First edition. Bookplate of actor Jean Hersholt, a tiny tear at the crown, near fine in near fine dustwrapper (with art by Crary) with tiny nicks. An exotic tale of Hollywood orgies, it is not clear whether this is fact or fiction, but most likely some combination of both. Inscribed by the author: “To Jean Hersholt, a ‘Hollywoodite’ whom I am proud to know. Anabel Lane ‘Miss Anonymous.’” Laid in is a two-page Autograph Letter Signed from Lane to Hersholt, recounting her trip across country by motor car, her health, a visit from her publisher, and a mention of “Von,” possibly Erich Von Stroheim. Hersholt, the Danish actor best known for such roles as the grandfather in Shirley Temple’s Heidi and after whom the famous Humanitarian Award was named, was an avid collector of first editions. Lane was a columnist and film critic, as near as we can tell. 6 Paul AUSTER. The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press (1985, 1986, 1986). First editions. Three volumes. Each volume is fine in fine dustwrapper. The first volume is Signed by the author; the other two volumes are warmly Inscribed to the same recipi- ent. City of Glass is in the rare, first issue dustwrapper, and is very seldom encountered thus. A great set. 7 (Autograph Collecting). George E. GILBERT. An Account of Autographs. Small (approximately 3½" x 5½") wrappered blank book, with adver- tising for Geo. W. Williams & Co. flavoring and extracts. Name of George E. Gilbert on the front wrap. The first five pages contain a list of autographs sent for, a total of 86, with a horizontal line by each name apparently indicating that the autograph was received. Undated but presumably no earlier than 1865 (Gilbert didn’t send for Abraham Lincoln, who died in 1865, and which would have been logical consider- ing the list) and no later than 1868 (Gilbert sent for James Buchanan, who died in 1868). The list includes the following figures, all of whom apparently responded, literary figures Henry W. Longfellow, William C. Bryant, James G. Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Thomas Nast, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the English author George MacDonald; military figures U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, P.H. Sheridan, Wade Hampton, O.O. Howard, Carl Schurz, Ben Butler, John Breckenridge, D.H. Hill, John Singleton Mosby, Raphael Semmes, and James Longstreet; political figures Andrew Johnson, Jefferson Davis, Charles Sumner, and Millard Fillmore; as well as Brigham Young, P.T. Barnum, Henry Ward Beecher, John B. Gough, Henry W. Stanley, and Charles F. Adams. A few of the figures in the collection are noted as “received,” or apparently given to Gilbert, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Daniel Webster, and John Quincy Adams. Autograph col- lecting was a popular pastime in mid-19th Century America, and this is a nice expression of it. Now if we could only find the autographs… The first volume of the “New York Mosaic” 8 Isabel BOLTON [pseudonym of Mary Britton Miller]. Do I Wake or Sleep. New York: Charles Scribner’s 9 Pat CONROY. The Great Santini. Boston: Sons 1946. Houghton Mifflin Company 1976. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear and a little First edition. Fine in just about fine dust- rubbing on the spine. The first volume wrapper with a few tiny spots of foxing of the author’s New York Mosaic tril- on the spine. The author’s first novel. ogy. Miller was in her sixties when she published the first of these novels under the name Isabel Bolton. It was praised by Edmund Wilson in The New Yorker, who was reportedly greatly disappointed when he met this bright new star in the literary firmament – expecting a brilliant and romantic young writer, and instead meeting an amiable “older woman.” Diana Trilling wrote of Bolton, after the publication of her second novel, The Christmas Tree, that “… she 10 —. The Lords of is the best woman writer of fiction in this country today.” However Discipline. Boston: Houghton Bolton had all but disappeared from the literary landscape by the time Mifflin Company 1980. of her death in 1975. With the reissue of the trilogy in 1998 her work First edition. Slight waviness to the spine is once again getting the attention of serious critics. All three novels else fine in a price-clipped, fine dustwrap- are set in New York City and the appeal of Miller’s novels bears some per. This copy stamped “Review Copy/ resemblance to those of Dawn Powell. An especially nice copy of a Not For Sale.” Nicely Inscribed by the fragile wartime title. author: “To — / Here’s to the good life in television / Pat Conroy / Oct. 24 1980.” 11 (Children). Elizabeth BISHOP. The Ballad of the 12 (Children). Roald Burglar of Babylon. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1968). DAHL. Charlie and the First edition. Woodcuts by Ann Great Glass Elevator: Grifalconi. Oblong quarto. A tiny tape The Further Adventures of mark on the front fly where a review Charlie Bucket and Willy Wonka slip was affixed, else fine in fine dust- Chocolate-maker Extraordinary. wrapper with a barely visible smudge. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1972). Advance Review Copy with slip laid in, slip has a small corresponding tape First edition. Top edge a trifle soiled, shadow. A very nice copy of a scarce still fine in fine dustwrapper. children’s book by the noted poet. 13 (Children). Witi IHIMAERA. The Whale Rider. (Auckland, New Zealand): Heinemann (1987). 14 (Children). Richard WILBUR. Digging for First edition (the New Zealand edition). A re- China. Garden City: Doubleday (1970).