Between the Covers Rare Books, inc. 112 Nicholson Rd (856) 456-8008 Gloucester City, NJ 08030 [email protected] www.betweenthecovers.com C ata lo g 156: More Treasures from Below (below $100, that is)
You see before you another catalog of interesting but reasonably priced books (all less than $100, in fact), intended to distract you while you are closeted away this frigid January (or not, I guess, depending on where you live), and before we send out our next list of more expensive stuff. Much of the last month at Between the Covers has been spent doing what we do best: amus- ing ourselves, and if it isn’t too much trouble to us, in trying to amuse you as well, at our new Between the Covers blog site: http://betweenthecoversblog.wordpress.com/ Dan, Matt, and I have been trying to regularly contribute articles, bon mots, soupcons, and other nuggets of wonderment about rare books, book fairs, the book trade, our digestion, or whatever else seems to come to mind when Blogmaster General Matt, says “got anything for the blog?” once a week or so. In the future, we hope to have additional staff members contribute as well, assuming that they can aspire to the high standards of mediocrity that we have so far established. Presumably this could distract you for a few minutes now and again, while providing us with an excuse to foist our unsolicited opinions upon you. I keep asking Matt if our blog has “gone viral.” I don’t actually know what this means, but I understand that on the Internet, this is a good thing. I’m not sure that it has yet, but hope springs eternal. Tom C.
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Note: Color pictures of all available items in this catalog can be seen at www.betweenthecovers.com by searching under author or title. 1 ADAMS, Richard. Education for Literature: The First Archibald Yell Smith IV Lecture. Chattanooga, Tennessee: The Baylor School 1976. First edition. Octavo. Printed white wrappers. A little age- toning to the white wrappers, else fine. [BTC #310749]
2 AGEE, James. Letters of James Agee to Father Flye. New York: George Braziller 1962. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Uncommon in this condition. [BTC #276683]
3 ALBEE, Edward. Counting the Ways and Listening: Two Plays. New York: Atheneum 1977. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #106053]
4 —. Three Tall Women. New York: Dutton (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play. A very uncommon title. [BTC #100672]
5 ALLEN, Woody. The Floating Light Bulb. New York: Random House (1982). First edition. Remainder stripe on the topedge, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing and a tiny tear near the crown. A play. [BTC #285194]
6 ANDERSON, Sherwood. Poor White. London: Jonathan Cape (1921). First English edition. Fine in a spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper. Author’s fifth book, a novel, and considered by many critics to be his best. A very nice copy in the uncommon jacket. [BTC #314483]
7 (Animation). JONES, Chuck. Chuck Amuck: The Life and Time of an Animated Cartoonist. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1989). First edition. Foreword by Steven Spielberg. Small quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by Chuck Jones on the half-title. Invitation to a signing party laid in. [BTC #312877] 8 (Anthology). ALLEN, Donald and Robert CREELEY, edited by. New American Story. New York: Grove Press (1965). First edition. Introduction by Warren Tallman. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributions by Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac (“The Railroad Earth, Part 1”), Williams Burroughs (“Ordinary Men and Women”), William Eastlake, LeRoi Jones, Hubert Selby, Jr., John Rechy, and others. Uncommon. [BTC #307640]
9 (Anthology). GARRET, George, Desmond O’GRADY, Patrick CREAGH, Sean O CRIADAIN, Ned O’GORMAN, and Robert BAGG. A Reading of New Poems. Rome: American Academy in Rome 1959. First edition. Corners a little bumped, near fine in printed red wrappers. Poetry first presented in a public reading at the American Academy in Rome on May 10, 1959. [BTC #277540]
10 (Anthology). COUZYN, Jeni, edited by. Twelve to Twelve. Poetry D-Day Camden Festival 1970. London: Poets Trust 1970. First edition. Octavo. Wrappers. Fine. Contains poems by Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Pickard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Seamus Heaney, Jon Silkin, and William Plomer. [BTC #275187]
11 (Anthology). (HUGHES, Ted and others). Moments of Truth: Nineteen Short Poems by Living Poets. London: The Keepsake Press 1965. First edition. Stapled stiff wrappers, with quarter hand- decorated paste-paper overlay. Poetry by George Barker, Martin Bell, John Betjeman, Edwin Brock, Robert Conquest, Gavin Ewart, Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Bernard Gutteridge, Francis Hope, Ted Hughes, Edward Lowbury, Kathleen Nott, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, James Reeves, Peter Russell, David Wevill, and Hugo Williams. A trifle rubbed at the spine fold, else fine. Each represented poet was given twelve copies, and 100 were offered for sale. This is one of the 100. [BTC #276385] 12 (Anthology). LEVERTON, Denise, edited by. 1968 Peace Calendar & Appointment Book. Out of the War Shadow: An Anthology of Current Poetry. New York: War Registers League 1967. First edition. Spiral bound wrappers. Fine. A compilation of anti-war poetry by many prominent poets including Levertov, Muriel Rukeyser, Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Hayden Carruth, Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, Jim Harrison, John Hollander, Gary Snyder, William Stafford, Louis Zukofsky, and others. [BTC #277656]
13 (Architecture). BAYER, Herbert, Walter GROPIUS, and Ise GROPIUS, edited by. Bauhaus 1919-1928. Boston: Charles T. Branford Company (1952). Second edition. Quarto. A faint stain on the rear board, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a corresponding stain on rear panel and light chipping near the crown. [BTC #303576]
14 (Art). CASTELLI, Leo. Jasper Johns: 35 Years. (New York: Leo Castelli Gallery and Abrams 1993). First edition. Edited by Susan Brundage. Essay by Judith Goldman. Design by Smatt Florence. Quarto. Illustrated spiral-bound boards. As new in publisher’s shrinkwrap. [BTC #309168]
15 ASHBERY, John. April Galleons. New York: Viking Press (1979). First edition. Oblong octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #99730]
16 —. Can You Hear, Bird. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of rubbing. [BTC #109217]
17 AUDEN, W.H. Secondary Worlds: Essays. New York: Random House (1968). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #100124]
18 —. City without Walls and Other Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #102257]
19 —. The Platonic Blow. Washington, DC: Guild Press 1970. First illustrated edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. Slight rubbing, very near fine. Homoerotic poem illustrated with explicit photographs. [BTC #306607] 20 BALLARD, J.G. Running Wild. (London): Hutchinson (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #306464]
21 —. War Fever. London: Collins 1990. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #306402]
22 BANVILLE, John. The Untouchable. (London): Picador (1997). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #307258]
23 BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi Jones). Am/ Trak. New York: Phoenix Book Shop 1979. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 126) Signed by the author. [BTC #105913]
24 BARCLAY, Mrs. Hubert. A Dream of Blue Roses. New York: Hodder & Stoughton (1912). First edition. Very nearly fine in cloth with a touch of soiling to the back cover and spine and the endpapers lightly spotted, without dustwrapper as issued. An uncommon romance. [BTC #69684]
25 BARKER, George. The View from a Blind I. London: Faber & Faber (1962). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Unsigned, but with six lines of poetry in manuscript in the author’s hand on each of pages 10 and 12. [BTC #309146]
26 (Basketball). RILEY, Pat. The Winner Within: A Life Plan for Team Players. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1993). First trade edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by Riley. [BTC #290421]
27 BATES, H.E. Edward Garnett. London: Parrish 1950. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a faint tidemark at the bottom of the front panel. [BTC #109027]
28 BECKETT, Samuel. Film: Complete Scenario/Illustrations/Production Shots. New York: Grove Press (1969). First edition. Paperback original. Illustrated. Wrappers. Fine. A beautiful copy. [BTC #274069]
29 —. Worstward Ho. New York: Grove Press (1983). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #104917] 30 BERRY, Wendell. The Hidden Wound. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1970. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of wear. [BTC #308440]
31 BERSSENBRUGGE, Mei-mei. Four Year Old Girl. (Berkeley): Kelsey St. Press 1998. First edition. Oblong octavo. Decorated wrappers. Very near fine.Inscribed by Berssenbrugge to the poet Ray DiPalma. [BTC #311923]
32 BIDART, Frank. Desire. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1997). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #307623]
33 BLUNDEN, Edmund. A Summer’s Fancy. London: Beaumont Press 1930. First edition. Octavo. Illustrations by Randolph Schwabe. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Bookplate on the front pastedown, corners a little bumped, else fine. One of 325 numbered copies on handmade paper. The 25th book from the press. [BTC #308160]
34 BOGAN, Louise. A Final Antidote: From the Journals of Louise Bogan. Omaha: Cummington Press 1991. First edition. Edited by William Maxwell and Charles McGrath. Frontispiece by Priscilla Steele. Fine in fine unprinted blue paper dustwrapper. One of 220 numbered copies Signed by Bogan and with an limited Signed etching by artist Priscilla Steele. [BTC #308312]
35 BOGOSIAN, Eric. In the Dark. New York: Wedge Press 1983. First edition. Paperback original. Stapled wrappers. A fine copy. The author/actor/playwright’s uncommon first book, a collection of stories. [BTC #100455]
36 BOLAND, Eavan. Limitations. New York: Dim Gray Bar Press 2000. First edition. Tall thin octavo. Rossi Medieval Chant printed wrappers. Fine. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by Boland (out of a total edition of 100 copies printed on Iyo Glazed paper). Poem printed to celebrate the occasion of a reading by the poet at The Center for Book Arts in New York City on April 29, 2000. [BTC #308931] 37 BONOMO, Joe. The Strongman: A True Life, Pictorial Autobiography of the Hercules of the Screen, Joe Bonomo. (New York: Bonomo Studios 1968). First edition. Quarto. Red cloth gilt. Some spotting to the boards and a small stain on the page edges, a good copy without dustwrapper. Inscribed: “To my friend William Abner, manager of my favorite restaurant. Lindy’s. Best always, Joe Bonomo. 12-2-67.” [BTC #313303]
38 (Book Collecting). BOUTON, J.W. Catalogue of Typographical Rarities and Literary Treasures, Embracing Illuminated Manuscripts and Books of Hours, Fine Specimens of Early Printing, Unique Copies of Extra Illustrated Books, Choice Illustrated and Art Works, Rare Americana,... New York: J.W. Bouton 1889. Illustrated wrappers. 134pp. Split at the edge of the spine, small chips on the rear wrap, a very good copy. Includes a Shakespeare First Folio, offered with the other three folios as a set for $2750, firsts of Milton’s Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained offered together for $175, etc. Includes a six-page essay by Bouton on history and trends in book buying and selling (also reprinted on our website and blog). Fascinating insight into late 19th Century book collecting. [BTC #316913]
39 (Book Collecting). WAGNER, Henry R. One Rare Book. Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club 1956. First edition. Stapled printed pink wrappers. Faint lightening in the center of the pages, else fine in original mailing envelope addressed to legendary San Francisco bookman David Magee. One of 250 copies printed by the Ward Ritchie Press for Thornton G. Douglas for private distribution to the members of the Zamorano-Roxburghe Clubs. [BTC #309270]
40 BOWLES, Paul. Pages from Cold Point and Other Stories. London: Peter Owen (1968). First edition. Fine in a modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a new publisher’s price sticker covering the original price on the front flap. [BTC #104399]
41 BOYD, William. An Ice Cream War. London: Hamish Hamilton (1982). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #310718] 42 BOYLE, T. Coraghessan. East Is East. (New York): Viking (1990). Advance Reading Copy. Fine in glossy wrappers. Inscribed by the author. [BTC #306617]
43 BROCK, Edwin. I Never Saw It Lit. Poems. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1974. First edition. Illustrated by Liz Brock. 12mo. Illustrated papercovered boards. Spine very slightly sunned, else fine. One of 75 hardbound numbered copies Signed by Brock. Yes! Capra Chapbook Number 22. [BTC #311694]
44 BRONK, William. Six Duplicities. (New York): Jordan Davies [no date]. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 174 copies printed on Rives Light Weight and Fabriano Ingres, and numbered and Signed by Bronk. [BTC #311421]
45 BURROUGHS, Franklin. Horry and the Waccamaw. New York: W.W. Norton and Company 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #314150]
46 BURROUGHS, William and Allen Ginsberg. The Yage Letters. (San Francisco): City Lights Books (1963). First edition. Paperback original. Fine in very lightly rubbed wrappers. [BTC #105914]
47 BURROUGHS, William S. Cobble Stone Gardens. (Cherry Valley): Cherry Valley Editions (1976). First edition. Pictorial wrappers. Fine. [BTC #106745]
48 CASEY, John. An American Romance. New York: Atheneum 1977. First edition. A tiny ink stroke on the bottom edge (not a remainder mark), slight foxing to the foredge, binder’s glue causing some stains on the pastedown, very good in about fine dustwrapper with a bit of foxing. Signed by the author, his first book. [BTC #307876]
49 (Children). FAULKNER, William. The Wishing Tree. New York: Random House (1964). First edition. Illustrated by Don Bolognese. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A short story which had previously existed only in a single, typescript copy prepared by Faulkner in 1927. An as new copy. [BTC #99499] 50 (Children). GOREY, Edward. Gorey Alphabet. London: Constable (1961). First English edition, published in the U.S. as The Fatal Lozenge. Fine in pictorial boards. [BTC #106700]
51 (Children). MILHOUS, Katherine. Patrick and the Golden Slippers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1951. First edition. Thin quarto. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a closed tear on the rear panel. Signed by the author on the titlepage. Children’s book about the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. [BTC #312389]
52 (Children). (MULFORD, Clarence). Hopalong Cassidy and Lucky at Copper Gulch Television Book. Garden City: Garden City Publishing Company (1950). First edition. Thin quarto. Pictorial boards with die-cut window, backed with glassine screen. Very slight wear, about fine. Wheel turns revealing images on the “television screen” on the front board. A very nice copy. [BTC #291296]
53 (Children). ROETHKE, Theodore. Dirty Dinky and Other Creatures: Poems for Children. Garden City: Doubleday (1973). First edition. Selected by Beatrice Roethke and Stephen Lushington. Illustrations by Julie Brinckloe. Fine in a lightly rubbed, else fine dustwrapper. [BTC #277408]
54 CIARDI, John. Live Another Day. New York: Twayne Publishers (1949). First edition. A small owner’s name on the front fly, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a little tanning and a small stain on the spine. Author’s third volume of poetry. [BTC #275703]
55 CLARKE, Austin. Old Fashioned Pilgrimage and Other Poems. (Dublin): Dolmen Press (1967). First edition. A slight smudge on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped and slightly spine-toned, near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy. [BTC #307871] 56 CONRAD, Joseph. Tales of Hearsay. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company 1925. First American edition, issued simultaneously with the English edition. About fine in about very good, price- clipped dustwrapper with slight toning, small nicks and tears, mostly on the spine, and some light staining at the spine-fold. [BTC #291742]
57 CONROY, Carol. The Jewish Furrier. Atlanta: The Old New York Book Shop Press 1980. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards. Crease on final blank, else fine. One of 150 copiesSigned by the author. A volume of poetry, the first book by the novelist, and sister of Pat Conroy. [BTC #286057]
58 COWLEY, Malcolm. Think Back on Us… A Contemporary Chronicle of the 1930’s. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1967. First edition. Edited, with an Introduction by Henry Dan Piper. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small scrapes on the front panel. Inscribed by the author: “For Lee Graham, in memory of a pleasant ordeal. Malcolm Cowley.” [BTC #278071]
59 CREELEY, Robert. Pieces. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1968. First edition. Collages by Bobbie Creeley. Wrapped issue. Fine in marbled wrappers with applied paper label. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the poet. [BTC #99802]
60 —. Hello. Christchurch (New Zealand): Hawk Press 1976. First edition. Fine in wrappers and near fine dustwrapper with a couple of faint stains on the rear panel. One of 750 copies. This copy is Inscribed by Robert Creeley to artists Jorge Fick and his wife, Cynthia Homire Fick, who had been colleagues of Creeley’s at Black Mountain College. [BTC #307858]
61 —. Echoes. West Branch, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press 1982. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 2000 copies. [BTC #275990]
62 CUMMINGS, E.E. Santa Claus: A Morality. New York: Henry Holt (1946). First edition. Small quarto. Gift inscription and some fading at the bottom of the boards, thus very good without dustwrapper. [BTC #311625] 63 DAVIES, Rhys. The Black Venus. New York: Howell, Soskin (1946). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper, with jacket art by Garth Williams. Young woman put on trial for the crime of “courting in bed” or “bundling.” A lovely copy. [BTC #283954]
64 De La MARE, Walter. Crossings: A Fairy Play. (Westminster): Beaumont Press (1921). First edition. Music by C. Armstrong Gibbs. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Fine. One of 264 numbered copies on handmade paper. De La Mare’s first play. [BTC #309173]
65 Di PRIMA, Diane. Hotel Albert. New York: Poets Press 1968. First edition. Stapled illustrated red wrappers. Fine. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the poet. [BTC #275881]
66 —. Loba as Eve. New York: Phoenix Book Shop 1975. First edition. Fine in self-wrappers. One of 100 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #276678]
67 DICKEY, James. Head-Deep in Strange Sounds: Free-Flight Improvisations from the unEnglish. (Winston-Salem): Palaemon Press (1979). First edition. Thin quarto. Fine. One of 475 copies Signed by the author. [BTC #105156]
68 DICKINSON, Emily. Ted Hughes, selected by. A Choice of Emily Dickinson’s Verse. London: Faber and Faber (1970). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. [BTC #276701]
69 DIDION, Joan. The Last Thing He Wanted. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1996. First trade edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #274531]
70 DOBYNS, Stephen. Concurring Beasts. New York: Atheneum 1972. First edition, hardcover issue. Errata slip and Lamont Poetry Selection slip laid in. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first book. A beautiful copy. [BTC #307617] 71 DORN, Edward. Recollections of Gran Apacheria. (San Francisco: Turtle Island Foundation 1974). First edition. Small quarto. Pictorial wrappers. Comic book-style illustration by Michael Myers. Just about fine. [BTC #310693]
72 DRABBLE, Margaret. A Summer Bird-Cage. New York: William Morrow & Company 1964. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first novel. [BTC #311657]
73 —. The Realms of Gold. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1975). Uncorrected proof. Orange printed wrappers. Corners a little bumped, else near fine. [BTC #311662]
74 —. The Ice Age. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1977). Uncorrected proof. Near fine in printed wrappers. [BTC #311646]
75 DRINKWATER, John. Tides: A Book of Poems. (London: Beaumont Press 1917). First edition. Octavo. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards by F. Sangorski and G. Sutcliffe. Prospectus laid in. Fine copy. One of 250 numbered copies on handmade paper. First book by the press. [BTC #308140]
76 DUNCAN, Robert. [Broadside]: Wine. San Francisco: Printed for Oyez by The Auerhahn Press 1964. Broadside. Folio. Rolled, else fine. [BTC #284315]
77 —. Of the War: Passages 22-27. (Berkeley): Oyez (1966). First edition. Wrappers. Fine. An as new copy. [BTC #99828]
78 —. Derivations. London: Fulcrum Press (1968). First edition, trade issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #99489]
79 —. The Opening of the Field. London: Jonathan Cape (1969). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. [BTC #275062]
80 — and Jess Collins. Caesar’s Gate: Poems 1949-1950. (San Francisco): Sand Dollar 1972. Second edition. Paste-ups by Jess. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 600 hardcover copies. A beautiful copy. [BTC #102419] 81 DURRELL, Lawrence. The Plant- Magic Man. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1973. First edition. 12mo. Decorated papercovered boards. Slight soiling on the titlepage, else fine. One of 200 numbered copiesSigned by Durrell. Yes! Capra Chapbook Number 5. [BTC #311699]
82 DYER, Walter A. All Around Robin Hood’s Barn: A Canine Idyll. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company 1926. First edition. Illustrated by Charles Livingston Bull. Corners a little bumped, near fine in a rubbed, near very good dustwrapper with several short tears and aggressively price-clipped. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #310811]
83 EBERHART, Richard. Reading the Spirit. New York: Oxford University Press 1937. First American edition, preceded by the English edition. Trifle sunned at the edges of the boards, else fine in very good or better dustwrapper with modest toning to the spine. The poet’s second book. [BTC #307852]
84 EDSON, Russell. The Traffic.Madison, Wisconsin: Red Ozier Press 1978. First edition. Illustration by Steven Applequist. 24mo. Printed wrappers. [4]pp. Fine. One of 150 copies printed as a New Year’s greeting for the friends of the press. [BTC #312370]
85 EGAN, Jennifer. Emerald City. (London): Picador (1993). First English edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. From the Library of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #283051]
86 EGGERS, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Simon and Schuster (2000). Advance Reading Copy (stated: “Advance Uncorrected Reader’s Proof”). Very slight wear, fine in wrappers. The author’s first book. [BTC #311289]
87 ELIOT, T.S. The Classics and The Man of Letters. London: Oxford University Press 1942. First edition. 12mo. Stapled printed wrappers. A little age-toning, else near fine. The text of an address delivered to the Classical Association. [BTC #290965] 88 EVERSON, William. In the Fictive Wish. Berkeley: Oyez (1967). First edition. Quarto. Illustrated with a woodcut by Mary Fabilli. Fine in fine unprinted dustwrapper with slight age-toning at the spine. Limited to 200 copies Signed by Everson. [BTC #308886]
89 —. Tendril in the Mesh. (Aromas): Cayucos Books 1973. First edition. Large quarto. Quarter calf and paste-paper boards. Fine. One of 250 copies printed by Clifford Burke at the Cranium Press and Signed by Everson. [BTC #308885]
90 — writing as Brother Antoninus. The Crooked Lines of God: Poems 1949-1954. (Detroit, Michigan): University of Detroit Press 1962. Third edition, revised. Ownership signature and a couple of faint spots in the text, otherwise a fine copy in a lightly age-toned dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears. Nicely Inscribed by Everson as Brother Antoninus: “Inscribed for Jake & Mary Leed in appreciation for my stay at Kent State in Ohio. Brother Antoninus May 13, 1965.” [BTC #310535]
91 — writing as Brother Antoninus. The Rose of Solitude. Garden City: Doubleday 1967. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Jacket photo of the author by Thomas Merton. Signed by the author as Brother Antoninus. [BTC #308597]
92 — writing as Brother Antoninus. Robinson Jeffers: Fragments of an Older Fury. Berkeley: Oyez 1968. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first book of prose. [BTC #100225]
93 FAULKNER, William. Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems. (Oxford, Mississippi/New Orleans): Tulane University and Yoknapatawpha Press (1981). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy with errata slip laid in. [BTC #273409]
94 FERLINGHETTI, Lawrence. After the Cries of the Birds. San Francisco: David Haselwood Books 1967. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. [BTC #100414] 95 —. The Sea & Ourselves at Cape Ann. Madison, Wisconsin: Red Ozier Press 1979. First edition. Thin octavo. Illustrations by Janet Morgan. Original wrappers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 200 copiesSigned by Ferlinghetti. Peich 17. [BTC #311756]
96 (Football). BROWN, Paul with Jack CLARY. PB: The Paul Brown Story. New York: Atheneum 1979. First edition. Foredge slightly foxed, else fine in very good dustwrapper with a large but faint stain on the rear panel. Inscribed by Paul Brown, and Signed by co-author Clary. [BTC #287809]
97 (Football). NELSON, Karl and Barry STANTON. Life on the Line. Waco, Texas: WRS Publishing Company (1993). Second edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. BrieflyInscribed by the New York Giants lineman. The story of his battle with cancer. [BTC #289879]
98 FORCHE, Carolyn. The Angel of History. (New York): HarperCollins (1994). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the poet. [BTC #306721]
99 FROST, Robert. Family Letters of Robert and Elinor Frost. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press 1972. First edition. Edited by Arnold Grade, Introduction by Lesley Frost. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a short tear. Nicely Inscribed by Lesley Frost to Daniel Smythe, author of Robert Frost Speaks: “To Dan and Ruth Smythe with love from Lesley Frost. Nov. 19, 1975.” Laid in is a nice Autograph Postcard Signed from Lesley Frost to Smythe. [BTC #312380]
100 (FROST, Robert). An Evening with Robert Frost: Presentation of the 1962 Edward MacDowell Medal. New York: The MacDowell Colony 1962. First edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. Fine. Program for the presentation and reading. Scarce. [BTC #104803]
101 GARDNER, John. On Moral Fiction. New York: Basic Books (1978). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s extremely controversial foray into moral and literary criticism. [BTC #310726] 102 — and L.M. ROSENBERG, edited by. MSS Spring 1981. Dallas, Texas: Press Works Publishing 1981. First edition. Cloth and printed papercovered boards. Fine, lacking the original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 250 copies Signed by both editors, this copy unnumbered and marked “Review.” [BTC #304907]
103 —. another copy. Dallas, Texas: Press Works Publishing 1981. First edition. Cloth and printed papercovered boards. Corners slightly bumped, near fine in fine original unprinted actetate dustwrapper. One of 250 copies Signed by both editors, this copy unnumbered. [BTC #311251]
104 GARRETT, George. In the Briar Patch. Austin: University of Texas Press (1961). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. [BTC #276777]
105 GILCHRIST, Ellen. Two Stories. New York: Albondocani Press 1988. First edition. Stapled self-wrappers. A fine, as new copy with the prospectus for the edition laid in. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #104804]
106 GINSBERG, Allen. Mind Breaths: Poems 1972-1977. San Francisco: City Lights Books (1977). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. A beautiful and fresh copy. [BTC #99494]
107 GLUCK, Louise. Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry. (Hopewell, New Jersey): The Ecco Press (1994). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #306726]
108 GOLDBLATT, Eli. Journeyman’s Song. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press 1990. First edition. Illustrated by Susan Nees. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 400 numbered copies Signed by the author and the artist. [BTC #311998]
109 GOLDING, William. Close Quarters. London: Faber and Faber 1987. First edition. Top corners bumped, thus near fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #106286]
110 —. Fire Down Below. London: Faber & Faber (1989). First British edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #311162] 111 GOLDRING, Douglas. South Lodge: Reminiscences of Violet Hunt, Ford Madox Ford and the English Review Circle. London: Constable & Co., Ltd. (1943). First edition. A little foxing, else near fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of soiling. A very attractive copy. [BTC #278176]
112 GOODMAN, Paul. North Percy. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1968. First edition. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 250 numbered hardbound copies Signed by the author. [BTC #104991]
113 GORDON, Caroline. The Malefactors. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1956). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of toning to the spine lettering. [BTC #309179]
114 GOREY, Edward. Amphigorey: Fifteen Books. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1972). First edition. Corners slightly bumped, near fine without dustwrapper. A nice copy. [BTC #311113]
115 GOYEN, William. Arthur Bond. [No place]: Palaemon Press (1979). First edition. Wrappers with paper label. Bottom corner a trifle bumped, else fine. One of two hundred numbered copies Signed by Goyen. [BTC #105576]
116 GRASS, Günter. New Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace and World (1968). First American edition. Translated by Michael Hamburger. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Illustrated by the author. [BTC #109874]
117 GRAVES, Robert. Poems 1970-1972. London: Cassell (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a faint smudge on the front panel. An especially fresh copy. [BTC #309673] 118 GUNN, Thom. Moly. London: Faber and Faber (1971). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #100806]
119 —. Songbook. New York: Albondocani Press 1977. First edition. Illustrated with four drawings by Bill S[chuessler]. Fine in self-wrappers. Prospectus laid in. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author and the artist. [BTC #105033]
120 —. Selected Poems 1950-1975. London: Faber and Faber (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #102463]
121 —. Sidewalks. New York: Albondocani Press 1985. First edition. Illustrated by Bill Schuessler. Self-wrappers. Fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author and the artist. [BTC #275397]
122 —. The Hurtless Trees. (New York: Jordan Davies 1986). First edition. Illustrations by Andrew Hudson. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 100 copies on Mohawk Super Fine paper Signed by the autor and the artist. [BTC #311594]
123 HARRISON, Jim. Selected & New Poems 1961-1981. New York: Delacorte Press (1982). Uncorrected proof. Spine slightly sunned, very near fine in wrappers. [BTC #307175]
124 HASS, Robert. Sun Under Wood. (Hopewell, NJ): Ecco Press (1996). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a “United States Poet Laureate” sticker on jacket. Inscribed by Hass. [BTC #308829]
125 HEANEY, Seamus. The Makings of a Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats. (Liverpool: University of Liverpool 1978). First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. Lecture delivered on 9 February, 1978. [BTC #312533] 126 —. Among Schoolchildren. A lecture dedicated to the memory of John Malone given by Seamus Heaney on Thursday 9th June, 1983 at Queen’s University, Belfast. (Belfast): John Malone Memorial Committee 1983. First edition, second issue. Octavo. Original printed navy blue wrappers. A fine copy with copyright slip laid in. [BTC #312526]
127 —. The Place of Writing. Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press (1989). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper, an as new copy. [BTC #306484]
128 HEYEN, William. The Swastika Poems. New York: Vanguard Press (1977). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine glassine jacket and slipcase. One of 50 numbered and Signed copies out of a total edition of 3500 copies. [BTC #308234]
129 HIRSCHMAN, Jack. Cantillations. Santa Barbara: Capra Press 1974. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with collages by the poet. Papercovered boards. Fine. One of 75 hardbound numbered copies Signed by the author, this copy additionally Inscribed by the poet in 1982. Yes! Capra Chapbook Number 15. [BTC #311703]
130 HOWARD, Richard and Polly KRAFT. Try These on for Size. Watercolors by Polly Kraft. East Hampton, New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller 1997. First edition. Text by Richard Howard, with fine line lithographs by Polly Kraft. Octavo. Wrappers. Fine. One of 150 copies printed at the Stinehour Press and Signed by both Howard and Kraft. [BTC #311821]
131 HOWES, Barbara. The Triumph of Love. New York: The Caliban Press 1953. First edition. Self-wrappers with printed paper label. Fine. One of 150 copies, none for sale. Brief complimentary note laid in from the publisher, Milton Saul. [BTC #276772]
132 HUGHES, Ted. Scapegoats and Rabies. London: Poet & Printer 1967. First edition. Self-wrappers. Fine. An as new example. One of about 400 copies. [BTC #99705] 133 —. Gaudete. London: Faber and Faber (1977). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #100452]
134 —. Moon-Bells and Other Poems. London: The Bodley Head (1986). First illustrated edition, with three additional poems. Illustrated by Felicity Roma Bowers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy. [BTC #99568]
135 —. Wolfwatching. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1991). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s material laid in. [BTC #100448]
136 (Ice-Skating). BROKAW, Irving. The Art of Skating with Practical Directions by Diagrams and Instantaneous Action Photographs of Skaters in Action. New York: American Sports Publishing Co. (1913). Presumed reprint. 12mo. Printed red pictorial wrappers. A small chip on the front wrap and a scrape on the recto of the first blank leaf, a very good copy. [BTC #309772]
137 JACKSON, Laura (Riding). The Telling. New York: Harper and Row (1972). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy. [BTC #99859]
138 JASPERS, Karl. The Future of Germany. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1967. First edition in English. Translated and edited by E.B. Ashton. Foreword by Hannah Arendt. A small erasure on the front fly, else fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #108676]
139 JOHNSON, Ronald and Eric SATIE. Sports and Divertissments. [Edinburgh]: Wild Hawthorn Press 1965. First edition. Drawings by John Furnival. Spiral bound glossy card covers. A little foxing to the covers, else near fine. Johnson’s poetry for Satie’s music. [BTC #311328]
140 JOHNSON, Ronald. With vignettes by Guy DAVENPORT. The Spirit Walks, The Rocks Will Talk. New York/Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society 1969. First edition. Illustrated by Guy Davenport. Original printed marbled wrappers. A bit rubbed with a slight crease on the rear wrap, near fine lacking the printed mailing envelope. One of 500 copies Signed by Johnson and Davenport. Issued as Jargon 72. [BTC #311335] 141 JONG, Erica. Fruits and Vegetables. New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston (1974). First edition, hardcover issue. Endpapers and foredge foxed, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first book, a volume of poetry. [BTC #309138]
142 JOYCE, James. Stephen le Heros: Fragment de la Première Partie de Dedalus [Stephen Hero]. (Paris): Gallimard (1948). First French edition. Decorated papercovered boards. Slight age-toning, else near fine in near fine unprinted glassine dustwrapper. [BTC #290908]
143 KENEALLY, Thomas. A Family Madness. Sydney: Hodder and Stoughton (1986). First edition (Australian issue). Bottom edges a trifle rubbed, near fine in a very slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author with a sketch of a face: “To Arleen, Warmest thanks and respect. Tom Keneally 1988.” [BTC #285211]
144 KINNELL, Galway. The Past. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1985. First edition. Quarter leather and cloth. Fine in fine slipcase. Copy number 15 of 200 numbered copies Signed by Kinnell. [BTC #308446]
145 KINSELLA, Thomas. Tear. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press 1969. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #100710]
146 KLIMA, Ivan. Lovers for a Day. New York: Grove Press 1999. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #313819]
147 KOCH, Kenneth. Poems from 1952 and 1953. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1968. First edition. Top corner a trifle bumped else fine in stapled wrappers. One of 250 numbered copies in wrappers Signed by the author. [BTC #105445]
148 KOCH, Kenneth. The Pleasures of Peace and Other Poems. New York: Grove Press (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper designed by Alex Katz, with one short tear. [BTC #311417] 149 —. (Larry RIVERS). When the Sun Tries to Go On. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1969. First edition, wrappered issue, one of 1500 copies. Illustrated by Larry Rivers. Fine. [BTC #275190]
150 KOKOSCHKA, Oskar. A Sea Ringed with Visions. New York: Horizon Press (1962). First American edition. Tiny tear at the crown and a little foxing, else near fine in very good or better price-clipped dustwrapper with a corresponding small tear and a little foxing. [BTC #276801]
151 KUMIN, Maxine. Up Country: Poems of New England. New York: Harper and Row (1972). First edition. Fine in a modestly rubbed else fine dustwrapper. Warmly Inscribed by the author. [BTC #309147]
152 L’ENGLE, Madeleine. Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1989). Second printing. A slight bump on the front board else fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by L’Engle on a label on the front pastedown. [BTC #313282]
153 LAMB, Wally. She’s Come Undone. New York: Pocket Books (1992). Uncorrected proof. Very slight age- toning, else very near fine in wrappers. First novel by an author who rocketed to fame and fortune when this title was chosen for Oprah Winfrey’s on-the-air book club. [BTC #307393]
154 LEAVITT, David. Saturn Street. Amsterdam: De Harmonie (1996). First edition. Small octavo. Original wrappers. Fine. A 73-page novella, privately published to honor the New Year. One of only 125 copies, none of which were for sale; the publishers also issued a Dutch translation of the text by Jan Fastenau in an edition of 250 copies in the same format. Although not called for, this copy is Signed by Leavitt. [BTC #310746]
155 LEITHAUSER, Brad. A Seaside Mountain: Eight Poems from Japan. [No place]: Sarabande Press (1985). First edition. Eight wood engravings by Mark Leithauser. Tall octavo. Cloth. Fine. One of 300 copies Signed by Brad Leithauser and the illustrator, Mark Leithauser. [BTC #313882] 156 LEVERTOV, Denise. Embroideries. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1969. First edition, wrappered issue. Self-wrappers. Fine. One of 300 numbered copies in wrappers Signed by the author. A beautiful copy. [BTC #277661]
157 —. The Sorrow Dance. (New York): New Directions (1976). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of age-toning. A beautiful copy. [BTC #100043]
158 —. Oblique Prayers: New Poems with 14 Translations from Jean Joubert. (New York): New Directions (1984). First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #100044]
159 LEVINE, Philip. 1933. New York: Atheneum 1976. First edition. Paperback original. Wrappers. Some light sunning to the spine and a bit of rubbing and edgewear, thus very good. Signed by the author. [BTC #307899]
160 —. Ashes. Poems New and Old. New York: Atheneum 1979. First trade edition. Paperback original. Octavo. Glossy wrappers. Covers lightly tanned, else fine.Signed by Levine. [BTC #313639]
161 —. Pili’s Wall. (Greensboro, North Carolina): Unicorn Press (1979). Second edition, hardcover issue. Octavo. Printed papercovered boards. Fine. One of 500 copies. [BTC #313662]
162 LEWIS, Wyndham. Rotting Hill. Chicago: Henry Regnery 1952. First American edition. A small owner’s name on the front fly, else fine in a slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear panel. [BTC #307748]
163 LIMPUS, Lowell M. History of the New York Fire Department. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company 1940. First edition. Preface on “The Ancient Art of Fire Fighting” by John J. McElligott. Offsetting on front endpapers from a clipping, and corners a trifle bumped, a near fine copy in near fine dustwrapper with a modest tear on the front panel. [BTC #293418] 164 LINDSAY, Howard and Russel CROUSE. The Great Sebastians: A Melodramatic Comedy. New York: Random House (1956). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A melodramatic comedy that featured Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne on Broadway. Slip of paper Signed by Russell Crouse laid in. [BTC #292098]
165 LOWELL, Robert. For the Union Dead. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1964. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #99895]
166 —. The Old Glory. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1965). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An especially fresh, essentially as new copy. [BTC #274628]
167 —, Peter TAYLOR and Robert Penn WARREN, edited by. Randall Jarrell 1914- 1965. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. [BTC #100034]
168 LOWRY, Malcolm. Lunar Caustic. London: Jonathan Cape 1968. First edition in English, previously published several years earlier in a French translation. Edited by Earle Birney and Margerie Lowry. Foreword by Conrad Knickerbocker. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #277584]
169 MACBETH, George. Poems. Farnham, Surrey: The Sceptre Press (1970). First edition. Fine in wrappers. One of 26 lettered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #106104]
170 MALAMUD, Bernard. Pictures of Fidelman: An Exhibition. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning. [BTC #100825]
171 MAMET, David. Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations. New York: Grove Press (1978). First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. [BTC #277407]
172 —. Some Freaks. (New York): Viking (1989). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s material laid in. [BTC #276493] 173 MANSFIELD, Katherine. The Aloe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1930. First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and a lightly worn, near fine slipcase. One of 975 numbered copies. [BTC #307920]
174 MARKHAM, Edwin. Campbell Meeker. New York: Harold Vinal 1925. First edition. Tipped-in frontispiece photograph. Plain papercovered boards with printed label on the front board. Label well- rubbed and corners a little worn, else very good. One of 147 copies Signed by Markham. Essay and poetry about Meeker, who died young in 1924. Markham was not shy about signing books, but this seems one of his less common titles. [BTC #298732]
175 MASON, Bobbie Ann. The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide. (Old Westbury): The Feminist Press 1975. First edition. Fine in wrappers, not issued in hardcover. The author’s second book, a study of the female detective in children’s literature. Scarce, and increasingly so in this condition. [BTC #307334]
176 —. With Jazz. (Monterey, Kentucky): Larkspur Press 1994. First edition. Illustrated by LaNelle Mason. Octavo. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine. One of 50 specially bound numbered copies Signed by the author and the artist. A story that originally appeared in The New Yorker. [BTC #308207]
177 McCLURE, Michael. The Sermons of Jean Harlow & The Curses of Billy the Kid. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation with Dave Haselwood Books 1968. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. [BTC #274023]
178 —. another copy. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation and Dave Haselwood Books 1968. First edition. Papercovered boards. Fine. One of 50 numbered copies bound in boards and Signed by the author. [BTC #308188]
179 McEWAN, Ian. The Cement Garden. New York: Simon and Schuster (1978). First American edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two tears on the front panel, one a bit creased. The author’s first novel. [BTC #274299] 180 McINERNEY, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City. A Novel. New York: Vintage (1984). Uncorrected proof. Fine in printed wrappers. The author’s first book. [BTC #308927]
181 McPHEE, John. Irons in the Fire. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux (1997). Uncorrected proof. Slight sticker shadow, else fine in wrappers. [BTC #277609]
182 MELVILLE, Herman and Antonio FRASCONI. On the Slain Collegians. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux (1971). First edition. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. A faint erasure on the rear pastedown else fine in a slightly edge-toned, else fine dustwrapper. One of 1000 numbered copiesSigned by Frasconi. Melville’s Civil War poem unearthed, illustrated, and applied to the Vietnam War and the Kent State debacle. [BTC #307905]
183 MERRILL, James. Scripts for the Pageant. New York: Atheneum 1980. First edition, wrappered issue. Fine in wrappers. Signed by the author. The third volume in this monumental narrative poem. [BTC #307590]
184 MERWIN, W.S. Finding the Islands. San Francisco: North Point Press 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #99875]
185 (Miniature Book). COOVER, Robert. The Convention. Northridge: Lord John Press 1982. First edition. Full leather in slipcase as issued. Fine. A miniature book measuring approximately 2½" x 2". Copy number 13 of 50 deluxe numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #312270]
186 (Miniature Book). HOCKNEY, David. Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with Etchings by David Hockney. London: Petersburg Press 1970. First edition. Full leather. 32mo. Fine. [BTC #312273] 187 MITCHELL, Joseph. Old Mr. Flood. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce (1948). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping and some foxing on the rear panel. Three interconnected articles, about the Fulton Fish market and its denizens, that appeared originally in The New Yorker. [BTC #293086]
188 MOMADAY, N. Scott. The Colors of Night. San Francisco: Arion Press 1976. First edition. Folded broadside in wrappers. Fine. One of 500 copies. [BTC #311836]
189 MONETTE, Paul. The Carpenter at the Asylum. Boston: Little, Brown and Company 1975. First edition, hardcover issue. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The author’s first book, a volume of poetry. A beautiful copy. [BTC #307555]
190 (MOORE, Marianne). An Act of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the Life and Work of Marianne Craig Moore. November 15, 1887 — February 5, 1972. Brooklyn: The Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn 1972. Wrappers. 16pp. Frontispiece. Fine. [BTC #277314]
191 MURDOCH, Iris. The Nice and the Good. London: Chatto & Windus 1968. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with nominal toning to the spine. A very nice copy of this novel that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [BTC #307765]
192 MURPHY, Gregory. The Countess. New York: Dramatists Play Service (2000). First edition. Printed wrappers. Fine. Signed by the playwright on the front wrap. [With]: Program for an Off-Broadway performance, Signed by most of the principal cast members including Kristin Griffith, John Quilty, and Richard Seff. The play ran for 618 performances. [BTC #300711]
193 (Mystery). AMBLER, Eric. The Care of Time. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1981). First American edition. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #306836] 194 (Mystery). BELLAIRS, George. Death on the Last Train. New York: Macmillan 1949. First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine Arthur Hawkins, Jr.-illustrated dustwrapper with slight wear at the top of the front panel. An early Inspector Littlejohn mystery. [BTC #285378]
195 (Mystery). CHRISTIE, Agatha. At Bertram’s Hotel. London: Collins Crime Club (1965). First edition. Penciled owner’s name and corners a little bumped, near fine in a slightly spine-toned, near fine dustwrapper. [BTC #309677]
196 (Mystery). DUNNING, John. The Bookman’s Wake. New York: Scribner (1995). First edition. Foxing on the spine, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with corresponding foxing on the inside only of the jacket. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s material laid in. The second Cliff Janeway novel. [BTC #290726]
197 (Mystery). FFORDE, Jasper. Lost in a Good Book. (London): Hodder & Stoughton (2002). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #306960]
198 (Mystery). LARIAR, Lawrence. Win, Place and Die! New York: Appleton Century Crofts (1953). First edition. A bit cocked, thus very good in a slightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Murder at the harness racing track. Jacket art by Paul Laune. [BTC #293003]
199 (Mystery). LE BRETON, Auguste. The Law of the Streets. London: Collins Crime Club (1957). First edition. A small bookseller label on the front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. [BTC #286696] 200 (Mystery). STEIN, Gertrude. Blood on the Dining-Room Floor. (Pawlet, Vermont): The Banyan Press (1948). First edition. Introduction by Donald Gallup. Former owner’s “chop” mark on the front fly, and edges of the boards a little rubbed, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, very good slipcase (not shown in illustration). One of 600 numbered copies from a total edition of 626. Stein’s attempt at a detective story. [BTC #313928]
201 (Mystery, Film Noir). JOHNSON, Kevin. The Dark Page: Books that Inspired American Film Noir, 1940-1949. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 2007. Second printing, with corrections. Foreword by Paul Schrader. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A thoroughly researched guide, by a noted bookseller, to the novels and plays which became the basis for all American film noir movies of the 1940s, with a photograph of each first edition, issue points, etc., accompanying its entry. An attractive and informative volume – highly recommended (and not just because the exceptional photography was by none other than BTC’s own Dan Gregory). [BTC #95592]
202 —. The Dark Page II: Books that Inspired American Film Noir, 1950-1965. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press 2009. First edition. Foreword by Guy Maddin. Folio. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. The second volume in the series, a thoroughly researched guide, by a noted bookseller, to the novels and plays which became the basis for all American film noir movies of the 1950s and ’60s, with a photograph of each first edition, issue points, etc., accompanying its entry. Another highly recommended, attractive and informative volume with photographs by Dan Gregory. [BTC #307712]
203 (Mystery). CHRISTIE, Agatha writing as Agatha Christie MALLOWAN. Come, Tell Me How You Live. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company (1974). Revised American Edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear. A non-fiction chronicle of the famous mystery writer’s time spent in Iraq and Syria with her archeologist husband Sir Max Mallowan. [BTC #310770]
204 NAIPAUL, V.S. The Overcrowded Barracoon and Other Articles. (London): Andre Deutsch (1972). First edition. Ownership signature and date, else fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #309131] 205 NEMEROV, Howard. Gnomes & Occasions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (1973). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a little rubbing at the crown of the thin spine. [BTC #100383]
206 NIEDECKER, Lorine. T & G: The Collected Poems (1936-1966). Penland, North Carolina: Jargon Society 1968. First edition. Plant Prints by A. Doyle Moore. Tall octavo wrappers. Slight sunning to the wrappers, else fine in a slightly torn, near fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Limited to 2000 copies. Published as Jargon 48. [BTC #309127]
207 NIMS, John Frederick. The Six-Cornered Snowflake. (New York: Sea Cliff Press 1991). First edition. Tall, narrow, accordion fold octavo. Illustrated with wood engravings by Dean Bornstein. Papercovered boards in paper sleeve with printed label. A little foxing on the label else fine with a tiny tear on the sleeve. One of 60 copies Signed by Nims and Bornstein. A prospectus for the book laid in. [BTC #312283]
208 NORMAN, Charles. Portents of the Air and Other Poems. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1973). First edition. Very near fine in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to playwright Samuel McCleery. Laid in are two typed poems by Norman, one of them Inscribed by him to McCleery and his wife. [BTC #275946]
209 NUTTALL, Jeff. Oscar Christ and the Immaculate Conception: Another Novelette. London: Writers Forum Poets [1967]. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. [32]pp. Fine. Hand-numbered as number 5 of 12 copies and Signed by Nuttall. [BTC #311369]
210 O’BRIAN, Patrick. The Hundred Days. New York: W.W. Norton (1998). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #274302]
211 O’CONNOR, Flannery. Conversations with Flannery O’Connor. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (1987). First edition. Edited by Rosemary M. Magee. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #106206] 212 (O’CONNOR, Flannery). The Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Home, Atlanta, Georgia. A Memoir of Mary Ann by the Dominican Nuns of Our Lady of Perpetual Home, Atlanta, Georgia. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy (1961). First edition. Introduction by Flannery O’Connor. Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper. [BTC #307480]
213 OATES, Joyce Carol. Wooded Forms. (New York: Albondocani Press 1972). First edition. Wrappers. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Fine in envelope and card stiffener. One of 300 copies used as a Christmas greeting. [BTC #106704]
214 —. The Hostile Sun: The Poetry of D.H. Lawrence. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow 1973. First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 300 numbered hardcover copies Signed by the author. [BTC #307438]
215 —. Triumph of the Spider Monkey. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press (1976). First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper in fine slipcase. This is one of 50 numbered copies handbound by Earle Gray, but curiously, is not signed by Oates. [BTC #307442]
216 —. Invisible Woman: New & Selected Poems 1970- 1982. Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press (1982). First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, about fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper. One of 300 specially bound and numbered copies Signed by Oates. [BTC #310521]
217 OLSON, Charles. Proprioception. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation 1965. First edition. Fine in stapled wrappers as issued. A scarce collection of poems, issued as Writing 6. [BTC #275258]
218 —. Selected Writings. New York: New Directions (1966). First edition, hardcover issue. Edited and with an Introduction by Robert Creeley. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of rubbing. [BTC #99552] 219 —. Pleistocene Man: (A Curriculum for the Study of the Soul Series 1). (Buffalo): The Institute for Further Studies 1968. First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. An as new copy. [BTC #99863]
220 —. Causal Mythology. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation 1969. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. An as new copy. [BTC #99774]
221 —. Poetry and Truth: The Beloit Lectures and Poems. San Francisco: Four Seasons Foundation 1971. First edition. Edited by George F. Butterick. Fine in boards, issued without dustwrapper. Issued as Writing 27. [BTC #104866]
222 —. Spearmint & Rosemary. Berkeley: Turtle Island 1975. First edition. Wrappers. Fine. One of 1000 copies. An as new copy. [BTC #99834]
223 —. Some Early Poems. Iowa City: Windhover Press (1978). First edition. Title-page woodcut by Roxanne Sexauer. Octavo. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine. One of 300 copies. [BTC #311741]
224 (Olympics). O’BRIEN, Dan. Dan O’Brien’s Ultimate Workout: The Gold-Medal Plan for Reaching Your Peak Performance. New York: Hyperion (1998). First edition. Trade paperback original. Fine in wrappers. BrieflyInscribed by the Olympic Gold Medal decathelete. [BTC #289506]
225 ONDAATJE, Michael. The English Patient. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1992. Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine in wrappers. Booker Prize winner and basis for the Oscar- winning Best Picture from director Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Juliette Binoche, who won for Best Supporting Actress Oscar. [BTC #307375]
226 OPPENHEIMER, Joel. The Great American Desert. New York: Grove Press (1966). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Fine. A playscript. [BTC #311972] 227 —. Generations. [No place]: (Jordan Davies 1986). First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers. A tiny tear at the crown, else fine. One of 75 copies on Opale de Rives and Iyo Glazed papers Signed by Oppenheimer. [BTC #312342]
228 PAGE, Elizabeth. The Tree of Liberty. New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1939). First trade edition, issued simultaneously with a limited edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear at the crown. Basis for the 1940 film The Howards of Virginia with Cary Grant and Cedric Hardwicke, and both Alan Ladd and Peter Cushing in small, uncredited early roles. [BTC #314443]
229 PALMER, Alice Freeman. Why Go to College? An Address. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company (1897). First edition. Small octavo. A tiny contemporary gift inscription, bottom corners bumped, and a small stain on the rear board, about very good. [BTC #309721]
230 PEIRCE, Kathleen. Divided Touch, Divided Color. XII Poems. Iowa City: Windhover Press 1995. First edition. Woodcuts by Peggy Fitzgerald. Quarto. Patterned green paper wrappers. Fine. One of 200 copies printed. Berger 104. [BTC #311983]
231 (Photography). MENAPACE, John. Letter in a Klein Bottle. (Highlands, North Carolina): Jargon Society 1984. First edition. Afterword by Jonathan Williams. Fine in fine dustwrapper, in publisher’s shrinkwrap. Issued as Jargon 97. [BTC #312387]
232 (Photography). SPEAR, David M. The Neugents “Close to Home”. (Winston- Salem, North Carolina): The Jargon Society (1993). First edition. Afterword by Jonathan Williams. Large quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Issued as Jargon 111. [BTC #309205] 233 PINTER, Harold. Landscape. (Ipswich): Emmanual Wax for Pendragon Press 1968. First edition. Fine. One of 2000 numbered copies. [BTC #276400]
234 —. Mac. (Ipswich): Emmanual Wax for Pendragon Press 1968. First edition. Fine. One of 2000 copies. [BTC #276357]
235 —. Family Voices: A Play for Radio. (London): Next Editions (1981). First edition. Spiral bound wrappers. Paintings by Guy Vaesen. Very light wear, just about fine. [BTC #99942]
236 —. Poems and Prose 1949-1977. New York, New York: Grove Press (1996). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of age-toning. [BTC #284339]
237 PLANTE, David. My Mother’s Pearl Necklace. New York: Albondocani Press 1977. First edition. Self-wrappers. Fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the author and artist. [BTC #105038]
238 PLATH, Sylvia. Million Dollar Month. Farnham Surrey: The Sceptre Press (1971). First edition. Wrappers. Fine. Number 15 of 150 numbered copies. [BTC #277733]
239 POUND, Ezra. EP to LU Nine Letters Written to Louis Untermeyer by Ezra Pound. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1963. First edition. Fine in papercovered boards and fine, unprinted acetate dustwrapper as issued. [BTC #276501]
240 PRICE, Reynolds. Things Themselves: Essays and Scenes. New York: Atheneum 1972. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy of a scarce title. [BTC #99906]
241 —. Lessons Learned. New York: Albondocani Press 1977. First edition. Self-wrappers. Fine. Prospectus laid in. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #104999] 242 —. Private Contentment. New York: Atheneum 1984. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. Relatively uncommon play. [BTC #99902]
243 —. The Laws of Ice. New York: Atheneum 1986. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher’s material laid in. [BTC #274328]
244 PURDY, James. The Nephew. New York: Farrar Straus and Cudahy 1960. First edition. Sunning to the top of the spine else near fine in very good dustwrapper with slight sunning to the spine. Inscribed by the author. [BTC #307446]
245 —. Cabot Wright Begins. London: Secker & Warburg 1964. Uncorrected proof of the British edition. Very good in printed orange wrappers. [BTC #110062]
246 RATTRAY, Jeanette Edwards. East Hampton Literary Group. East Hampton: Printed by The East Hampton Star 1962. First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. [12]pp. Illustrated. Creases on the front wrap, very good or better. Offprint from the Long Island Forum about four East Hampton literary figures: Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Irvin S. Cobb, and John Wheeler. Scarce. [BTC #308989]
247 READ, Herbert. T.S.E. — A Memoir. Monday Evening Papers: No. 5. (Middletown, Connecticut): Center for Advanced Studies Wesleyan University (1966). First edition. Stapled wrappers. A touch of age-toning, else fine. A memoir of T.S. Eliot. [BTC #99931]
248 REXROTH, Kenneth. The Heart’s Garden The Garden’s Heart. Cambridge: Pym- Randall Press (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 300 clothbound copies. [BTC #106744]
249 RICHARDS, Susan. Horse Fables. Monterey, KY: Larkspur Press 1987. First edition. Cream colored wrappers. Fine. One of 500 numbered copies. Although not called for, this copy Signed by the author. [BTC #312343] 250 ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. New York: Simon & Schuster (1993). First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards as issued, without dustwrapper. Fine. Advance Review Copy published for booksellers. An unusual format for an advance copy. Winner of the 1994 PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction. From the Library of Bruce Kahn. [BTC #282914]
251 RUSHDIE, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet. London: Jonathan Cape (1999). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #307637]
252 —. Fury. London: Jonathan Cape (2001). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #307696]
253 —. Shalimar the Clown. London: Jonathan Cape (2005). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #307693]
254 (Science-Fiction). ANDERSON, Poul. World Without Stars. London: Dennis Dobson (1975). First English edition, and first hardcover edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. [BTC #287286]
255 (Science-Fiction). BLOCK, Lawrence. Random Walk. A Novel for a New Age. New York: Tor (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by Block. A beautiful copy. [BTC #311011]
256 (Science-Fiction). De CAMP, L. Sprague. Solomon’s Stone. New York: Avalon Books 1957. First edition. Fine in very slightly spine-faded, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Jacket art by Ric Brinkley. [BTC #286332]
257 (Science-Fiction). — and Fletcher Pratt. Tales from Gavagan’s Bar. Philadelphia: Owlswick Press 1978. Expanded edition, adding six stories. Fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine dustwrapper. [BTC #301611] 258 (Science-Fiction). RICE, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1996. Twentieth anniversay edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase. A lovely copy of the author’s first book, and the first entry in her Vampire Chronicles. Basis for the Neil Jordan film with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Antonio Banderas, Stephen Rea, Christian Slater, and 12 year-old Kirsten Dunst in her breakthrough role. [BTC #307919]
259 (Science-Fiction). SIMMONS, Dan. Prayers to Broken Stones. Arlington Hts., Illinois: Dark Harvest 1990. First edition. Illustrated by Val Lakey Lindahn and Ron Lindahn. Fine in fine dustwrapper and fine slipcase as issued. One of 550 numbered copiesSigned by Simmons, and both Lindahns. [BTC #307180]
260 (Science-Fiction). SMITH, Edward E. Gray Lensman. Hicksville, New York: Gnome Press (stated 1951, really 1962). 1962 reprint, but retaining the original date and first edition statement. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the rear panel, and a touch of rubbing. A crisp copy. [BTC #290427]
261 (Science-Fiction). STRAUB, Peter. Mrs. God. Hampton Falls, New Hampshire: Donald Grant 1990. First separate edition with expanded text. Illustrated by Rick Berry. Quarter morocco and cloth with applied illustration in slipcase. Fine. One of 600 numbered copies Signed by both Straub and Berry. [BTC #306898]
262 (Science-Fiction). DISCH, Thomas M. Ringtime. [West Branch]: Toothpaste Press 1982. First edition. Illustrated by Ann Mikolowski. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies specially bound and Signed by both Disch and Mikolowski. [BTC #312229]
263 SETH, Vikram. Two Lives. (New York): HarperCollins (2005). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of an unspecified number of copies of the first edition, bound with a page Signed by the author. [BTC #107487] 264 —. same title. London: Little, Brown (2005). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author. [BTC #307138]
265 SEXTON, Anne. 45 Mercy Street. Boston: Mifflin 1976. First edition. Edited by Linda Gray Sexton. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #274066]
266 SHEPARD, Sam. Simpatico: A Play in Three Acts. New York: Vintage Books (1995). Book club edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some scratches on the front panel. [BTC #106687]
267 SHUTE, Nevil. The Rainbow and the Rose. New York: William Morrow 1958. First American edition. Spine very slightly sunned, thus near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the rear panel and the spine lettering a little toned. A nice copy of this story about the dangerous air rescue of an injured Australian pilot. [BTC #312865]
268 SIMPSON, Louis. Selected Poems. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World (1965). First edition. Sunning to the gutters, else fine in a slightly age-toned dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher’s slip laid in. Signed by the author on the title page. [BTC #310723]
269 SMITH, William Jay. A Rose for Katherine Anne Porter. New York: Albondocani Press 1970. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Prospectus laid in. One of 150 numbered copies (of an edition of 180) Signed by the author. [BTC #105479]
270 —. Journey to the Dead Sea. Omaha: Abattoir Editions 1979. First edition. Wrappers. Oblong quarto. A small spot on the front wrap, else near fine. One of 222 numbered copies. [BTC #308179]
271 SNODGRASS, W.D. Six Troubadour Songs. Providence: Burning Deck (1977). First edition. Fine in wrappers, and fine dustwrapper. One of 500 copies. [BTC #105146] 272 (Sound Recording). READ, Oliver and Walter L. WELCH. From Tin Foil to Stereo: Evolution of the Phonograph. Indianapolis: Howard W. Sams & Co. (1959). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel. [BTC #312906]
273 SPENDER, Stephen. The Year of the Young Rebels Revisited. Berkeley: Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California/(Arion Press) 1984. First edition. Fine in boards. Fine. One of 50 numbered hardbound copies Signed by Spender. [BTC #309602]
274 STAFFORD, William. Stories That Could Be True. New and Collected Poems. New York: Harper & Row (1977). First edition. Very slight sunning to the boards and top edge slightly foxed, else a fine copy in about fine dustwrapper with a price sticker on the rear panel. Signed by Stafford on the title page. A relatively uncommon title. [BTC #311233]
275 STERN, Gerald. Last Blue. New York: Dim Gray Bar Press 1998. First edition. Fine in stitched self- wrappers. Fine. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by the poet. [BTC #308525]
276 STEVENS, Wallace. Vassar Viewed Veraciously: 16 Pencil Sketches. Iowa City: Windhover Press (1995). First edition. Introduction and notes by D.H. Woodward. Square octavo. Wrappers. Fine. One of 350 copies printed on handmade Bibliophile Society paper. [BTC #311908]
277 STEVENSON, Anne. Selected Poems 1956-1986. Oxford: Oxford University Press 1987. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Inscribed on the title page: “For Alastair, with admiration in his room – Edinburgh, February 1988. Anne Stevenson.” [BTC #311190]
278 STONE, Robert. A Flag for Sunrise. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1981. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award. [BTC #307186] 279 STOREY, David. Present Times. London: Jonathan Cape (1984). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A very nice copy. [BTC #100005]
280 STYRON, William. As He Lay Dead, A Bitter Grief. New York: Albondocani Press 1981. First edition. Fine in saddle-stitched self wraps. Prospectus laid in. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Reprints Styron’s eulogy of Faulkner that originally appeared in Life magazine. [BTC #104992]
281 —. A Tidewater Morning: Three Tales from Youth. New York: Random House (1993). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. [BTC #302498]
282 TATE, James. Riven Doggeries. New York: Ecco Press (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by Tate. A lovely copy. [BTC #311129]
283 TAYLOR, Peter. A Summons to Memphis. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1986. Uncorrected proof. Spine a trifle sunned, very near fine in wrappers. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. [BTC #307371]
284 THEROUX, Paul. The Consul’s File. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1977. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Scarce in this condition. [BTC #274662]
285 THOMPSON, Ernest. On Golden Pond. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1979). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little wrinkle at the crown. Thompson won an Academy Award for his script of the film version; Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn were similarly honored (his only Oscar, her record-breaking fourth). In addition, the teaming of Fonda, in his final film, with his daughter Jane, in roles paralleling their own relationship, provided a brilliant swansong for a long and distinguished acting career. [BTC #302506]
286 TOMLINSON, H.M. The Snows of Helicon. London: William Heinemann (1933). First edition. A trifle foxed, near fine in just about fine dustwrapper. [BTC #277330] 287 TRACY, Don. Streets of Askelon. New York: Dial Press 1951. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some rubbing and a small scrape on the front panel. An endless cocktail party that revolves around a handsome financier and his heiress wife in an American city during the 1920s. A very nice copy. [BTC #95720]
288 TYLER, Anne. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with the slightest of toning on the rear panel. Tyler’s ninth, and some think her best novel. A lovely copy. [BTC #307848]
289 —. The Accidental Tourist. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1985. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Basis for the excellent Lawrence Kasdan film with William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, and Geena Davis in her Oscar-winning role. A beautiful copy. [BTC #306320]
290 —. Saint Maybe. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1991. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.Signed by the author on a cancel (an extra leaf bound in by the publisher for that purpose). [BTC #306828]
291 UPDIKE, John. Midpoint and Other Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of the author’s third poetry collection. [BTC #306120]
292 —. Seventy Poems. (Harmondsworth): Penguin (1972). First edition (no equivalent American title). Wrappers. Pages a little browned, else a fine and unread copy. Poems gathered from two previous collections. [BTC #275251]
293 —. Query. (New York): Albondocani Press (1974). First edition. Stapled wrappers. Cover drawing by Robert Dunn. Fine with cardboard backer and fine original envelope that is a little age-toned. Issued as a Christmas greeting by the publisher. One of 260 copies printed for the use of the author and artist. [BTC #307356]
294 —. Tossing and Turning: Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a bit of age-toning. The author’s fourth collection of poems. [BTC #274503] 295 —. Three Illuminations in the Life of an American Author. New York: Targ Editions 1979. First edition. Fine in a slightly age-toned, unprinted dustwrapper. One of 350 numbered copies Signed by the author. Three short stories, narrated by the author’s alter ego, Bech, one of which concerns his encounter with the most fervent collector of his first editions. [BTC #307299]
296 —. Ego and Art in Walt Whitman. New York: Targ Editions 1980. First edition. Fine in fine unprinted dustwrapper. One of 350 copies Signed by the author. Text of a talk given by Updike at the Morgan Library in 1977. [BTC #306489]
297 —. Hawthorne’s Creed. New York: Targ Editions (1981). First edition. Fine in quarter cloth and marbled papercovered boards in a slightly spine-tanned and soiled, near fine original unprinted dustwrapper. One of 250 copies Signed by the author. The text of an address. [BTC #307300]
298 —. Bech Is Back. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. [BTC #306125]
299 —. another copy. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1982. Uncorrected proof. Fine in yellow wrappers. [BTC #307732]
300 —. The Beloved. Northridge: Lord John Press 1982. First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated paper over boards. Fine. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. De Bellis and Broomfield A92a. [BTC #306429]
301 —. Emersonianism. Cleveland: Bits Press (1984). First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine. One of 200 copies Signed by the author. De Bellis and Broomfield A104a. [BTC #306444]
302 —. More Stately Mansions. Jackson, Mississippi: Nouveau Press 1987. First edition. Cloth and papercovered boards with paper spine label as issued. Fine. Copy number 27 of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #307870] 303 —. Trust Me. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in wrappers. [BTC #306115]
304 —. Getting the Words Out. Northridge: Lord John Press 1988. First edition. Quarter cloth and papercovered boards. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. De Bellis and Broomfield A125a. [BTC #306441]
305 —. Rabbit at Rest. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. Uncorrected Proof. Bottom corner a little bumped, else near fine in printed yellow wrappers. [BTC #307169]
306 —. Memories of the Ford Administration. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1992. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and promotional material laid in. [BTC #275247]
307 —. The Afterlife, and Other Stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1994. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with slight sunning at the spine. Signed by the author. [BTC #306123]
308 URIS, Leon. Topaz. New York: McGraw- Hill (1967). First edition. Non-authorial gift inscription, else fine in a price-clipped, fine dustwrapper. Card with Leon Uris’ Signature laid in. Basis for the 1969 film of the same title directed by Alfred Hitchcock. [BTC #284788]
309 VAN DRUTEN, John. I Remember Mama: A Play in Two Acts. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1945). First edition. Fine in an uniformly age- toned, else near fine dustwrapper with a little tanning at the spine. Adapted from Kathryn Forbes’ book Mama’s Bank Account, the play was the basis for the 1948 George Stevens film with Irene Dunne as Mama. Dunne, Oskar Homolka, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Ellen Corby were all nominated for acting Academy Awards; none of them won. Homolka reprised his role from the original theatrical production, which also featured Marlon Brando in a lesser role. [BTC #284594]
310 VAN DUYN, Mona. Near Changes. Poems. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. First edition. Boards a little bowed, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [BTC #308441] 311 (VONNEGUT, Kurt). PIERATT, Asa and Jerome KLINKOWITZ. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: A Descriptive Bibliography and Annotated Secondary Checklist. (Hamden, Connecticut): Archon Books 1974. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. The first Vonnegut bibliography. A lovely copy, usually found pretty worn. [BTC #307827]
312 VONNEGUT, Kurt. Bluebeard. New York: Delacorte Press (1987). Uncorrected proof. Slight sunning to the spine, near fine in printed red wrappers. [BTC #307164]
313 WAKOSKI, Diane. On Barbara’s Shore. Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press 1971. First edition. Quarter cloth and decorated papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted acetate dustwrapper. Limited to 100 numbered copies Signed by Wakoski. [BTC #311296]
314 WARREN, Robert Penn. Being Here: Poetry 1977–1980. New York: Random House (1980). First edition. Cloth and slipcase as issued. Fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by the author. [BTC #308530]
315 —. New and Selected Poems. Helsinki: Eurographica 1986. First edition. Fine in wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 350 copies Signed by Warren. [BTC #308469]
316 WELTY, Eudora. On Short Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. (1949). First edition. Some wear to the spine edges, very good or better, lacking the original unprinted tissue dustwrapper. Nicer than usually found. One of 1500 copies sent out as a New Year’s greeting to the friends of the author and publisher. Becoming quite scarce. [BTC #307843]
317 WHITE, Kenneth. The Tribal Dharma: An Essay on the Work of Gary Snyder. (Dyfed): Unicorn (1975). First edition. 12mo. Japanese-style wrappers. Corners a little bumped, else a fine copy.Inscribed by White to translator and literary critic Bertrand Mathieu: “for Bert – and for the tribe – euramerasianly. Ken.” [BTC #309187]
318 WHITTEMORE, Edward. Quin’s Shanghai Circus. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (1974). First edition. Fine in a slightly spine-sunned, else near fine dustwrapper. The author’s first book, preceding the Jerusalem Quartet. [BTC #306784] 319 WILLIAMS, C.K. The Lark. The Thrush. The Starling. [Poems from Issa]. Providence: Burning Deck (1983). First edition. Fine in wrappers and slightly age- toned, near fine dustwrapper. One of 500 copies. Although not called for, this copy is Signed by Williams. [BTC #311178]
320 WILLIAMS, Tennessee. The Knightly Quest: A Novella and Four Short Stories. (New York): New Directions (1965). First edition. Faint offsetting on the front fly else fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy. [BTC #309061]
321 WILSON, Woodrow. Cabinet Government in the United States. Stamford, Connecticut: The Overlook Press 1947. First edition. Papercovered boards. Fine in fine original unprinted glassine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. One of 1000 copies. [BTC #284980]
322 WITTE, George. The Secret Alphabet. New York: Sea Cliff Press 1990. First edition. Thin octavo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 66 copies Signed by Witte. [BTC #312008]
323 WODEHOUSE, P.G. A Pelican at Blandings. London: Herbert Jenkins (1969). First edition. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. [BTC #314507]
324 WOOLF, Douglas. The Hypocritic Days. (Mallorca): Divers Press 1955. First edition. 12mo. Wrappers with cover drawing by Kitasono Katue. A trifle foxed, else fine copy. The author’s first book, published at Robert Creeley’s press. [BTC #311588]
325 WOOLF, Virginia. Freshwater: A Comedy. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1976). First edition. Edited and with a Preface by Lucio P. Ruotolo. Illustrated by Loretta Trezzo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of toning at the extremities. [BTC #109218]
326 WYLIE, Andrew. Oetean Thermopylae. Cambridge: Pym-Randall Press 1967. First edition. Quarto. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 126) Signed by the author. [BTC #312287]
327 ZUKOFSKY, Louis. Futura 5 “a”- 9. [No place]: Hansjorg Mayer 1966. Broadsheet. One folio leaf folded to make sixteen pages, printed on eight sides only. Fine. [BTC #277660] Items 201 & 202:
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