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Catalogue: $10 112 Nicholson Rd BETWEEN THE COVERS Gloucester City NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Rare Books, Inc. [email protected] Inscribed to Terry Southern 1 Jack KEROUAC. The Dharma Bums. New York: Viking Press 1958. First edition. A worn, fair only copy, heavily rubbed and frayed at the extremities, in a rubbed, very good dust- wrapper that is almost certainly married to the book (but which came to us thus), in a fine custom made quarter morocco clamshell case. Kerouac’s follow- up to On the Road, a thinly-veiled account of his spiritual growth and friendship with poet Gary Snyder. Inscribed by Jack Kerouac to Terry Southern: “To my lovely tortured Terry, Jack XXX. To Terry who is Terry.” Kerouac and Southern met through Southern’s Candy co-author Mason Hoffenberg, when Southern returned to New York and settled in Greenwich Village. Southern was notorious for the usage of his books and this copy is no exception, not particularly pretty, but a spectacular association linking two iconic counterculture figures in what is often considered the scarcest of Kerouac’s books to find signed. [BTC #346433] 2 Vladimir NABOKOV. Look at the Harlequins! New York: McGraw-Hill (1974). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author to Gordon Lish, who published some of Nabokov’s sto- 3 Dawn ries when he was fiction editor at Esquire: POWELL. Turn, “for Gordon Lish with best regards from Vladimir Nabokov who has corrected sever- New Magic Wheel. al misprints in this copy. 6-ix-74. York: Farrar & Rinehart Montreux.” Nabokov has made corrections (1936). to pages 8, 90, and 116, including crossing through two whole sentences. Housed in a chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. [BTC #346457] First edition. A couple of pages a little roughly opened with corresponding small tears, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper with a very short tear. By con- sensus the best novel on New York’s bohemian life by this satirical, proto-feminist novelist who has recently been rediscovered. Gore Vidal, whose critical essay helped restore her fame, called her a better satirist than Twain and said she was “our best comic novelist.” Ernest Hemingway once told her she was his “favorite living novelist” – although she was not averse to poking fun at Hemingway himself, which she did in her novel, The Wicked Pavilion. Novelist Lisa Zeidner, in a review of the Tim Page biography of Powell in The New York Times Book Review, said that “she is wittier than Dorothy Parker, dissects the rich better than F. Scott Fitzgerald, is more plaintive than Willa Cather in her evocation of the heartland and has a more supple control of satirical voice than Evelyn Waugh, the writer to whom she’s most often compared.” Powell was an archetypal free spirit, living much of her life in Greenwich Village, taking – and flaunting – lovers frequently although she was married, and merci- lessly skewering the postures and foibles of an array of New York types, from bohemian artists to wealthy tycoons. Probably the nicest copy we’ve seen of an exceptionally scarce book. [BTC #342146] Between the Covers ~2~ Catalog 169 Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. Dimensions for all items, including artwork, are given width first. All items 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 accom- pany order if you are unknown to us. 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Non-Fiction ................................Item 1 Children’s Books ........................................................... 143 Art and Illustration ....................................................... 133 Mystery and Detective Fiction ......................................150 Baseball and Sports ....................................................... 137 Science-Fiction, Fantasy & Horror ................................164 4 Franklin P. ADAMS. Something 5 Samuel Hopkins ADAMS. Our Square and the Else Again. Garden City: People In It. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Doubleday, Page 1920. Company 1917. First edition. A small stain at the bottom of the spine, and some offsetting on the First edition. Bookplate and facing front end- ownership signature of Lewis E. papers, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Gensler, boards a little soiled, Nicely Inscribed by the author: “To Martha Mc. very good in very good dust- J. Biddle, the best golf partner I ever had, this wrapper with some shallow book is appreciatively inscribed by the author, chipping around the crown. Samuel Hopkins Adams. Hibernia, Fla. Mar. 21st Inscribed by F.P.A. to Gensler. 1920.” A collection of stories about New York City. The story “Orpheus, Who Humorous doggerel from the author’s popular column. Made Music in Our Square” was the basis for the 1917 Tod Browning film A Scarce in jacket. [BTC #347699] Love Sublime with Wilfred Lucas and Carmel Myers. [BTC #84202] Agee at Harvard 6 (James AGEE). Harvard Class Album 1932. Cambridge: Harvard University Class of 1932 1932. First edition. Folio. 291pp. Embossed leather grained cloth gilt. Spine gilt a little dull but easily readable, near fine. Among the graduating seniors is James Rufus Agee, who is pictured in two group photos on page 170 of the Advocate Board; his senior photo with biographical information and activities appears on page 210. He is also noted as the “Class Odist” on page 199 in the list of Class Officers; and finally, all of page 204 is devoted to his Class Ode. [BTC #344074] 8 John ASHBERY. Rivers and Mountains. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1966). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper 7 Cyril ALINGTON. with the slightest of wear, and the Eton Fables. London: Longmans, spine-lettering unfaded. Advance Green and Co. 1921. Review Copy with slip, photo, and pro- First edition. Fine in very good plus motional material laid in. Nominated dustwrapper with slight chipping at the for a National Book Award. [BTC spine ends, and other light wear. Stories #99726] by the Head Master of Eton College. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #84358] Modern First Editions ~3~ New Arrivals 9 (Anthology). John HELD, Jr., Dorothy PARKER, Ben HECHT, Heywood BROUN, Alexander WOOLLCOTT, George S. CHAPPELL, and sev- eral others. Nonsenseorship: Sundry Obser– vations Concerning Prohibitions, Inhibitions and Illegalities. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1922. First edition. Gilt lettering a little dull but readable, a little rubbed, a modest tear on the last endpaper, a very good copy. The dustwrapper, lacking the flaps, is folded and laid into the book. Literary spoof of the bluenoses of the era with contribu- tions by Dorothy Parker, Ben Hecht, Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, and several others. Amusing illustrations by Ralph Barton of the contributors at battle with the forces of prudery. This copy Signed or Inscribed by several contribu- tors and other literary luminaries including George S. Chappell, George P. Putnam, Charles Hanson Towne, traveler Frederick O’Brien, Charles Furlong, Hubbard Hutchinson, and Philip Ashton Rollins. Perhaps the most important contribution is an original drawing by Held of the blonde lady who was the recipient of the book. With a clipping laid in recounting the signing event. [BTC #344259] First American Yiddish Women’s Poetry Anthology 10 (Anthology). Ezra KORMAN, editor. Yidishe Dikhterins: Antologye [Yiddish Women Poets: Anthology. Collected, Arranged, and Published with a Foreword, Bibliographic Notes, and Photographs of the Poets]. Chicago: L.M. Stein 1928. First edition. Large, thick octavo. Lavish woodcut illustrations, tipped-in photographs of the authors, and facsimiles of important title pages throughout; dark blue pebbled cloth, stamped in gilt. One of 1500 copies, the entire edition. Spine gilt a little darkened, else just about fine. First edition of the first collection of Yiddish poetry by women, with selections from over seventy poets between 1586 and 1927. Until recently, there has been almost no treat- ment of female Yiddish poets. Women were included sporadically, if at all, in Yiddish literary anthologies, an ironic state of affairs considering that more women expressed themselves in Yiddish than in Hebrew, which was taught only to men. Korman, a Detroit teacher and literary critic, included four women whom Howe, Wisse and Shmeruk would include sixty years later in The Penguin Book of Modern Yiddish Verse: Kadia Molodowsky (who explored women’s themes); Anna Margolin, Rachel Korn, and Celia Dropkin (who pioneered eroticism in Yiddish poetry). Also includes a 232 title bibliography. Scarce, we have never seen another copy in the trade. [BTC #341119] 13 Saul BELLOW. 11 Philip BARRY. Hotel Universe. New York: 12 Brendan BEHAN. Seize the Day. New York: Samuel French 1930. Confessions of an Irish Viking Press 1956. First edition. Slight sunning at the Rebel. London: Hutchinson extremities, top corners a tad bumped, of London 1965. very good or better without dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: “To Adèle and Bob with love from Phil, 12 June 1930.” Adèle Lovett was a glamorous socialite, a B player in the Algonquin Round Table, a friend of Dorothy Parker’s, and report- edly the lover of Robert Benchley; her husband Bob was a businessman and later Secretary of Defense in the 1950s, succeeding George Marshall, and directing the Korean War in that capacity. A moderate commercial success, First edition.