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Between the Covers Catalog 179 New Arrivals 112 Nicholson Rd. (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] Terms of Sale: Images are not to scale. Dimensions of items, including artwork, are given width first. All items are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Orders 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 from this catalog will be shipped gratis via UPS Ground or USPS Priority Mail; expedited and overseas orders will be sent at cost. All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Member ABAA, ILAB. Artwork by Tom Bloom. © 2012 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. www.betweenthecovers.com 1 George ADE [Broadside]: James Whitcomb Riley: The Convocation Address delivered by Mr. George Ade. Eliza Fowler Hall, Purdue University, October 5, 1922. [Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University] 1922. Broadside. Approximately 8½" x 20". Very shallow chipping in the upper left-hand margin, old folds with tiny tears, else near fine. Signed by Ade and dated by him in 1940. Purdue alumnus Ade’s appreciation of his fellow Indiana author, who had passed away six years before. Both authors used Midwestern idiom and dialect to create humorous Midwestern cultural identities. Riley also recognized the limitations of regional appeal and with Lew Wallace and others formed the Western Association of Writers as a Midwestern literary club and community. Ade observes here: “Ninety-eight per cent of the people of this State can read and write. One hundred per cent can quote from Riley” and “He was the best story teller I ever heard because his character impersonations were vivid and accurate and convincing beyond all belief.” Exceptionally uncommon. OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #370067] 2 James AGEE A Death in the Family. New York: McDowell, Obolensky (1957). First edition with all points. Sunning to the edges of the boards else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with several small tears and foxing on the flaps. Agee’s posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize winning novel. This copy is from the library of fellow Tennessee-born, Pulitzer Prize- winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, with Peter Taylor’s ownership Signature. [BTC #354800] 3 Maxwell ANDERSON Key Largo: A Play in a Prologue and Two Acts. Washington, D.C.: Anderson House 1939. First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with some very slight age-toning and tiny nicks at the foot of the spine. Signed by the author on the title page. A play set in the Florida Keys where an escaped gangster holds the guests of a hotel hostage during a tropical storm. The play was good enough to lure Paul Muni back to Broadway after a seven-year hiatus in Hollywood. John Huston directed the loose film adaptation with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in their fourth and final film together. A very nice copy. [BTC #371820] 4 Mary Hayley BELL Whistle Down the Wind: A Modern Fable. London: T.V. Boardman & Company Limited (1958). First edition. Very near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with an ink squiggle on the front panel, several small chips and tears, and with clippings for the world premiere of the stage version and for the film laid in. Inscribed by the author to actress Vivien Leigh: “For Vivien for Christmas with my love always. Mary.” A fable for children, basis for the film of the same name, which included one of the earliest performances by the author’s daughter, Hayley Mills. Also made into a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber in 1992 with lyrics by Jim Steinman. Leigh was a close family friend and the godmother of Hayley’s sister, Juliet Mills. [BTC #372324] 5 [ANONYMOUS] Marie Love: A Naughtibiography. Being a Pastiche so Designed as to Expose the Inner Secrets of Mayfair in the Nineteen Twenties: together with Moral Reflections upon Science and Art and the Follies of Various Charming Authors. London: Robert Holden and Co. [1925]. First edition. Illustrated. Some modest foxing and slight cocking else near fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper (with wraparound jacket art illustrated by “Benjamin”) with a few short tears on the rear panel and a tiny chip. Fictionalized satire of English society. OCLC locates three copies, with only one in the U.S. [BTC #372309] First Broadway Cast 6 Samuel BECKETT [Playbill]: Waiting for Godot. New York: The John Golden Theatre / The Playbill May 7, 1956. Program. Octavo. 20pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Slight age-toning, tiny nicks to a few page corners, else near fine. Program for the fourth week of the first Broadway run, which starred Bert Lahr and E.G. Marshall in the roles they made famous. From the library of Edwin Erbe, Director of Publicity for New Directions. Scarce. [BTC #373006] 7 G.G. BELLI. Translated by Harold NORSE The Roman Sonnets of G.G. Belli. Highlands: Jonathan Williams 1960. First edition. Preface by William Carlos Williams. Introduction by Alberto Moravia. Page edges a bit tanned, and light wear, else near fine in wrappers. Inscribed by Norse to novelist James Jones: “For Jim Jones & Gloria. Affectionately, Harold Norse. Paris 1960.” Issued as Jargon 38. A notable association. [BTC #92412] 8 Elizabeth BISHOP Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. Laid in is a complimentary slip from the publisher sending the book at Bishop’s request. From the library of Peter and Eleanor Ross Taylor (see item 2), with the latter’s ownership Signature on the front free endpaper. [BTC #354817] 9 Black Mountain College 1933-1934. Black Mountain, North Carolina: Black Mountain College 1933. Stapled wrappers. [24]pp. Some glue remnants at the top of the front wrap from the original mailing envelope, and some oxidation at the staples, else near fine. The first catalog distributed for this highly influential college presenting class schedules, faculty and students, as well as general information about admissions and campus activities. With a foreword stating: “Black Mountain College was founded in order to provide a place where free use might be made of tested and proved methods of education and new methods tried out in a purely experimental spirit.” And boy was that ever an understatement. Black Mountain was home to a generation of artists who thrived on its innovative course structure and teaching methods which supported the idea that work and play are interchangeable, and that practical responsibility is essential for student development. Numbered among its students and faculty were John Cage, Willem de Kooning, Charles Olson, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Creeley, Ben Shahn, John Rice, Josef Albers, and Merce Cunningham, to name only a few. An early document from a college that became one of the most influential liberal arts schools of the 20th Century and the prototype for the modern alternative colleges found today. OCLC locates two copies. [BTC #348947] 10 Paul BOWLES A Little Stone. London: John Lehman (1950). First edition, first issue binding. Fine in a fresh, near fine dustwrapper with three tears on the front panel. A very attractive copy of this collection of stories. [BTC #100659] 11 Diane di PRIMA New Mexico Poem. (New York: Igal Roodenko 1967 [1968?]. First edition. Quarto. Saddlestiched wrappers with applied printed gold label. Slight waviness to the wrappers, else fine. One of 50 numbered copies bound in assorted European and Asian papers and handbound and Signed by the author. A very scarce fine press production.[BTC #351694] 12 Hilda DOOLITTLE writing as H.D. Bid Me to Live. New York: Grove Press 1960. Uncorrected proof. Quarto. String-tied stiff card covers with applied paper label, printed rectos only. Dampstain visible on both covers, and to a lesser extent on the top corner of the pages. An exceptionally scarce format, presumably no more than a handful were produced. [BTC #100183] 13 William FAULKNER Intruder in the Dust. New York: Random House 1948. First edition. Spine lettering a trifle rubbed else fine in a bright, fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this novel about murder and the mass mind, the popularity of which was instrumental in gaining Faulkner the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1949 Clarence Brown film, considered one of the most powerful films about racial prejudice ever made. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. [BTC #369652] 14 Anne FRANK The Diary of a Young Girl. Garden City: Doubleday 1952. First American edition. Introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt. Fine in a slightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with just a slight bit of the usual spine-sunning. The most famous and widely- read diary of the 20th Century. Adapted to the screen several times, first and most notably in 1959 by George Stevens, with a script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, based on their Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A nice copy of an increasingly scarce title. [BTC #371819] 15 Gabriel GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories. New York: Harper and Row (1968). First American edition. Fine in fine, first issue dustwrapper with virtually no rubbing. The Nobel Prize-winning author’s first book published in the United States. Excessive rubbing seems endemic to this title – this is a superior copy. The title story was the basis for a 1999 film starring Salma Hayek.