Sale 483 Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:00 AM Fine Literature – Books in All Fields Auction Preview Tuesday July 3, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Wednesday, July 4, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Thursday, July 5, 9:00 am to 11:00 am Other showings by appointment 133 Kearny Street 4th Floor:San Francisco, CA 94108 phone: 415.989.2665 toll free: 1.866.999.7224 fax: 415.989.1664 [email protected]:www.pbagalleries.com REAL-TIME BIDDING AVAILABLE PBA Galleries features Real-Time Bidding for its live auctions. This feature allows Internet Users to bid on items instantaneously, as though they were in the room with the auctioneer. If it is an auction day, you may view the Real-Time Bidder at http://www.pbagalleries.com/realtimebidder/ . Instructions for its use can be found by following the link at the top of the Real-Time Bidder page. Please note: you will need to be logged in and have a credit card registered with PBA Galleries to access the Real-Time Bidder area. 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Front Cover: Lot 292 Back Cover clockwise from upper left: Lots 105, 263, 189, 21 Bond # 14425383 Section I: Fine Literature, Lots 1-311 Section II: Fine Books in All Fields, Lots 312-427 Section I: Fine Literature 1. Ali, Monica. Brick Lane. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Doubleday, 2003 Signed and dated by Monica Ali on the title-page. Her first book. Fine in fine jacket. (80/120) 2. Amis, Martin. Success. Black boards, dust jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1978] Signed by Martin Amis on the title-page. Author’s third book. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. (150/250) 3. Amis, Martin. Four titles by Martin Amis, three of them signed. Includes: Other People: A Mystery Story. (Some spotting to page fore-edges.) [1981]. * Money: A Suicide Note. (A few pages with light marginal stains; jacket price clipped.) [1984]. * Einstein’s Monsters. (Jacket with remains of sticker on front flap, price clipped.) [1987]. * Times Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence. [1991]. Together, 4 volumes. Cloth or boards, jackets. First Editions. London: Jonathan Cape, Various dates All but Money signed by Martin Amis on the title-pages. Very good to fine in fine jackets. (200/300) 4. Ashbery, John. Some Trees. Foreword by W.H. Auden. Black cloth, jacket. First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956 First book of poems by John Ashbery, published as No. 52 in the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Jacket stained, small hole in spine, price clipped; volume near fine, jacket good. (100/150) 5. [Asimov, Isaac] French, Paul, pseud. Lucky Starr and the Big Sun of Mercury. Boards, jacket. First Edition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1952 Fourth in Asimov’s pseudonymous “Lucky Starr” series. Slight wear to jacket spine ends and corners; small tape stains to pastedowns; near fine in like jacket. (150/250) 6. Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. Boards, jacket. First Edition. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, [1972] Signed by the author on the title-age. Her second novel. Fine in fine jacket, with former owner’s name in ink on front endpaper. (100/150) Page 1 7. Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]. Autograph Letter Signed by W.H. Auden, to a Mr. Robinson. 11 lined, in ink, on thin sheet of typing paper. 28x21.8 cm. (11x8½”). New York: Jan. 19th, 1971 Auden writes, “You are right, of course, They means the Old Masters. The price of A Certain World is, I agree, prodigious, but that is the Publisher’s doing, not mine. With best wishes, yours sincerely, W.H. Auden.” With original envelope hand-addressed by Auden including his signed return address. Horizontal creases from folding, near fine. (200/300) 8. Barnes, Julian. Before She Met Me. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1982] Inscribed “To Michael with thanks” and signed by Julian Barnes on the title-page. His second book. Fine in fine jacket. (120/180) 9. Barnes, Julian. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters. Boards, jacket. First Edition. London: Jonathan Cape, [1989] Signed by the author on the title-page. Fine in fine jacket. (100/150) 10. Barnes, Julian. Four titles by Julian Barnes, two of them signed. Includes: Flaubert’s Parrot. 1st U.S. edition. Knopf, 1985. * Staring at the Sun. 1st edition. Jonathan Cape, [1986]. * Talking it Over. 1st U.S. edition. Knopf, 1991. * England, England. 1st edition. Jonathan Cape, [1998]. Together, 4 volumes. Cloth &/or boards, jackets. London & New York: Various dates Second and fourth signed by the author on the title-page. Fine copies in fine jackets. (200/300) THE AUTHOR’S FIRST BOOK 11. Barth, John. The Floating Opera. Cloth, jacket. First Edition. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956 Author’s first book. Jacket spine and a few edges yellowed, a few tiny stains or spots of yellowing, a bit rubbed at flap folds; a touch of extremity wear to volume and slightly yellowed endpapers; else a fine volume in a near fine jacket. (300/500) 12. Bayly, Thomas Haynes. “A Ditty” - Autograph poem, signed. 2 page autograph poem, signed. Ink on paper. 22.8x18.5 cm. (9x7¼”). June 22nd, 1835 The 24 line poem is an unpublished poem, and begins with a verse from Isaac Watts. Haynes (1797-1839) signs at the end of the poem, “Written in the shortest minute of the longest day, Thomas Haynes Bayly June 22nd, 1835.” Faint crease lines from where it was once folded, faintly foxed; very good. (300/500) 13. Begley, Louis. Two titles by Louis Begley. Includes: Wartime Lies. 1991. * About Schmidt. 1996. Together, 2 volumes. Half cloth & boards, jackets. First Editions. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, [1991 & 1996] Second signed by Begley on the half-title. Both fine in fine jackets. (80/120) Page 2 14. Bellow, Saul. Henderson the Rain King. Linen-backed bright orange cloth, color pictorial jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, 1959 First issue with the top page edge stained yellow. Edge wear to jacket, a few short tears with tape repairs on verso; small stain to page fore-edges, very good in like jacket. (150/250) 15. Bellow, Saul. The Adventures of Augie March. Black and gray cloth, jacket. First Edition, First Issue. New York: Viking, 1953 Author’s third book. First issue with top page edge stained orange and the copyright page with the “Vail-Ballou” printer’s imprint. First issue jacket with ad for “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck” on the rear flap and with no review quotes.