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List Highlights Fredric Brown Ackerman’s Microcosm of London In the Detective Pulps 104 aquatint plates Item 10 Item 136 Rare Algren proof, Item 1 Man with the Golden Arm The third Sherlock First Canadian Edition, preceding A nearly complete, signed collection A Haycroft-Queen Conerstone the British – 1st appearance of of the Pulitzer Prize winner’s books Poirot, Item 21 Item 29 Item 28 Dick Francis Collection Inscribed proof Thirty-six in all Signed on the title page Item 43 Most signed or inscribed And Inscribed on the endpaper Item 37 Item 44 First printing in first-issue dust Inscribed by Harper Lee jacket, signed by Mitchell Later printing Item 86 Rare signed copy Item 77 Item 153 First editions E. B. White’s An attractive set Elusive First Book Item 109 Association copy, Inscribed First & only edition Item 155 Plus Nonfiction Items 124 – 171 Item 115 RARE PROOF in fine dust jacket with the barest wear 1. Algren, Nelson. and local DC bookstore (Saville) sticker THE MAN WITH THE over price. A very good shop in GOLDEN ARM. Garden Georgetown, unfortunately out of City: Doubleday & Co., business for years. A nice copy. $250. 1949. First edition. Winner of the first 8. Biggers, Earl Derr. LOVE National Book Award and INSURANCE. New Y ork: Grosset & made into the movie that Dunlap [circa 1919]. First of this resurrected Frank Sinatra's Photoplay edition, which we assume was career. "Unrevised proofs" in tall, plain blue wraps with light- issued about 1919, or later, as that is the blue label printed in black. Measures 6 7/8 x 11 3/4"; last page year the first movie, with Ralph Denny, number is "122" but pagination is double in that the pages are was made. Another movie, starring numbered "1A," "1B," and so on. A RARE ITEM, we know of Abbott and Costello and with Robert only one other copy, which is in a University collection. Few Cummings, was made in 1940 under the minor scuffs & creases, otherwise near fine. Housed in custom title "One Night in the Tropics." Old clamshell case. $4500. insect damage on bottom of covers, otherwise very good in chipped but still very good dust jacket. 2. Algren, Nelson. A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE. NY: An early photoplay jacket. $250. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1956). First edition. "This is a story that tries to tell something about the natural toughness of women 9. Brodsky, Joseph. A PART OF SPEECH. New York: and men, in that order. Although it is for the most part about New Farrar Straus Giroux (1980). First U.S. edition and first edition Orleans in the 1930's, I like to think it is really about any street of in English. INSCRIBED to the Boston architect Tony Hsiao: any big town in the country" (Algren). Near fine in very good or "For Tony from Joseph Brodsky / to an architect from a ruin." better dust jacket with spine ends a little nicked and rubbed and His second major collection of poems published in English. one small chip from base of spine. Having been a fan of Algren Expelled from the Soviet Union, Brodsky moved to America in our youth we always thought this was a rewrite of his first with the help of W. H. Auden and other literary supporters and book, SOMEBODY IN BOOTS. $75. was eventually appointed Poet Laureate. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987. Tony Hsiao work includes the 3. Baldwin, James. ONE DAY WHEN I WAS LOST. performing arts center at Bryn Mawr College, the new Trial London: Michael Joseph (1972). True first Courthouse at Fall River, Museum Towers in Taipei, and new edition. Baldwin's film script for The religious buildings across the country. Hsaio's small name label Autobiography of Malcolm X. Near fine in on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket. $250. bright, near fine dust jacket. $125. 4. Baldwin, James. IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK. New York: Dial Press, 1974. First edition. One of 350 SIGNED numbered copies. A story of Harlem in the 1970's. Fine in slipcase, without dust jacket, as issued. $350. 5. Banks, Iain. THE WASP FACTORY. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984. First U. S. edition of the AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK-- SIGNED. Writ-ten from the first-person 10. Brown, Fredric. FREDRIC BROWN IN THE perspective of a sixteen-year- DETECTIVE PULPS: Homicide Sanitarium, Before She old describing his childhood, Kills, Madman's Holiday, Case of the Dancing Sandwiches, which included deaths within Freak Show Murders, and more. Tucson, et al: Dennis his family. Fine in dust jacket McMillan Publ., 1984-1991. First editions. All 19 volumes in with only the barest wear on the Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps series plus THE the spine ends. $450. OFFICE--a total of 20 volumes, all limited editions (only 300 6. Banville, John, as Benjamin Black. VENGEANCE. to 450 copies were printed of each). All copies are first edition (London): Mantle (2012). First edition, preceding the U.S. hard covers numbered and SIGNED BY THE Number 68 of 300 SIGNED numbered copies. Sixth book by INTRODUCTION WRITERS where called for (marked with an asterisk*). All are in fine condition in their original Banville writing as Benjamin Black. Fine in dust jacket. $75. illustrated dust jackets. The set includes: 7. Bellow, Saul. MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET. New York: • HOMICIDE SANITARIUM (v.1, ‘84), Bill Pronzini* Viking (1970). First edition of this National Book Award #25/300 • BEFORE SHE KILLS (v.2, ‘84), William F. Nolan*, winner. INSCRIBED, "To --- best wishes. Saul Bellow." Fine #205/350 • MADMAN'S HOLIDAY (v.3, ‘85), Newton Baird*, copies. An early novella. Fine in original glassine wrapper and #317/350 very tight slipcase with some minor wear. $100. • THE CASE OF THE DANCING SANDWICHES (v.4, 14. Callaghan, Morley, (Ernest Hemingway). THAT ‘85), Lawrence Block*, #165/400 SUMMER IN PARIS Memories of Tangled Friendships with • THE FREAK SHOW MURDERS (v.5, ‘85) Richard Hemingway, Fitz-gerald, and Some Lupoff*, #177/350 Others. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, • THIRTY CORPSES EVERY THURSDAY (v.6, ‘86), 1963. First edition. SIGNED by the William Campbell Gault*, #158/375 author. Callaghan was born and raised • PARDON MY GOULISH LAUGHTER (v.7, ‘86), Donald in Toronto and became friends in the Westlake*, #142 of 400 1920s with fellow-reporter Ernest • RED IS THE HUE OF HELL (v.8, ‘86), Walt Sheldon*, Hemingway while working at the #218/400 Toronto Daily Star. He was recognized • BROTHER MONSTER (v.9, ‘87), Harry Altshuler*, as one of the best short story writers of #88/400 his day, sharing Hemingway and F. • SEX LIFE ON THE PLANET MARS (v.10, ‘86), Charles Scott Fitzgerald's editor, Maxwell Willeford*, #292/400 Perkins, who published nine • NIGHTMARE IN DARKNESS (v.11, ‘87), Linn Brown*, of his books. This book is #260/425 based on Callaghan's 1929 • WHO WAS THAT BLONDE I SAW YOU KILL LAST summer in Paris, where he NIGHT (v.12, ‘88), Alan E. Nourse*, #116/450 was part of the great • THREE-CORPSE PARLAY (v.13, ‘88), Max Allan gathering of writers in Collins*, #31/450 Montparnasse that included Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, • SELLING DEATH SHORT (v.14, ‘88), Francis M.Nevins, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce. It Jr.*, #227/450 includes the infamous boxing match between Callaghan and Hemingway during which Callaghan knocked Hemingway to • WHISPERING DEATH (v.15, ‘89), [no intro, so unsigned], the mat. (Hemingway blamed referee Fitzgerald for letting the #84/450 boxing round go past its regulation three minutes, which he was • HAPPY ENDING (v.16, ‘90), [no intro, so unsigned], convinced was in order see him humiliated.) Illustrated with #99/450 photographs of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra • THE WATER WALKER (v.17, ‘90) , [no intro, so Pound et al. Minor wear on corners and spine ends of book and unsigned], #105/425 dust jacket, still near fine condition and scarce signed. We • THE GIBBERING NIGHT (v.18, ‘91), Joe Lansdale*, understand this Canadian edition precedes all others, but it was #331/425 printed in th U.S. so perhaps issued simultaneously with the • THE PICKLED PUNKS (v.19, ‘91), [no intro, so unsigned], Coward-McCann edition? $350. #38/450 • Plus THE OFFICE (1987), Philip Jose Farmer*, #91/425. 15. Capote, Truman. MUSIC FOR CHAMELEONS: New A fine set. $3600. Writing. New York: Random House (1980). First edition. 11. Brown, Sterling A. SOUTHERN ROAD. NY: Harcourt, Number 80 of 350 SIGNED copies. Fourteen new, at the time, Brace and Co. (1932). First edition. AUTHOR'S FIRST pieces including one story and thirteen essays. Issued without BOOK. Cloth spine and patterned boards. Wear on corners of dust jacket in slipcase. Cloth spine has an almost imperceptible boards and spine ends rubbed; bookplate and name and address small darker spot, otherwise almost new in plain reddish brown of former owner on front endpaper. Still, a good to very good paper-covered slipcase. $350. copy of a scarce book. Lacking the rare dust jacket.