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264. -. Same title. One of 50 numbered deluxe copies signed by the author. Fine.
265. MAILER, Norman. Barbary Shore. NY: Rinehart (1951). Mailer's second book. Inscribed by the author. This book, like his first, The Naked and the Dead, is bound in black pseudo-cloth boards that rub remarkably easily, and a coarse paper dust jacket printed in black, which also tends to show wear. This is a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket rubbed and fragile at the folds, beginning to split along one. The jacket is printed in black and red; there was also a black and green jacket, with no priority known.
266. MAILER, Norman. Advertisements for Myself. NY: Putnam (1959). Mailer's fourth major book, a collection of short pieces, some previously published, others not. Faint spot and bump to foredge; very near fine in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket worn at the spine extremities.
267. MAILER, Norman. The Armies of the Night. (NY): New American Library (1968). Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, one of the very few times a book of nonfiction has won both prizes. Inscribed by the author. Boards a trifle edge-sunned; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with scratches to the spine base.
268. MAILER, Norman. Of a Small and Modest Malignancy, Wicked and Bristling with Dots. Northridge: Lord John, 1980. A diatribe against television. Of a total edition of 400 copies, this is one of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Very slightly spine-faded, otherwise fine in a fine slipcase.
269. -. Same title. One of 100 numbered deluxe copies signed by the author. Bound in full leather. Fine in a fine slipcase.
270. MAILER, Norman. Harlot's Ghost. NY: Random House (1991). Mailer's massive novel about the CIA and contemporary America. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
271. MAILER, Norman. How the Wimp Won the War. Northridge: Lord John Press (1992). Mailer deconstructs the first President Bush and the First Gulf War. Of a total edition of 301 copies, this is one of 275 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
272. -. Same title. One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Bound in full leather. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
273. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Natural. NY: Harcourt Brace (1952). His first book, one of the great baseball novels of all time and basis for a well-received movie. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to Ray Teal who, along with Malamud, was employed at Oregon State at the time. An interesting inscription: "For Ray Teal/ in place of the wrestling/ match we never got to/ Bern," and dated "July, 1952." Trace shelf wear to cloth at extremities; still a fine copy in red boards, in a near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny tears at the crown. A scarce first edition, especially with a contemporary inscription.
274. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Assistant. NY: Farrar, Straus, Cudahy (1957). The second book by the author of The Natural. Small stain to extreme top page edges; near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket with some staining and spine-sunning and a few internally tape-mended edge tears; about very good.
275. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author. Trace wear to extremities of spine cloth; else fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with one internally tape-mended edge tear, a couple small spots on the spine, and a partially erased pencil line on the front panel. A very attractive copy of a book that often turns up with a frayed jacket and/or faded spine, and seldom appears signed.
276. MALAMUD, Bernard. Dubin's Lives. NY: FSG (1979). A limited edition of this novel, which was not issued for sale; one of 750 copies. Clothbound, fine; in a sunned glassine dustwrapper.
277. MALOUF, David. An Imaginary Life. NY: George Braziller (1978). The first American edition of the second novel by this Australian writer, who was previously best-known as an award-winning poet. This was his first book published in the U.S. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a tiny surface nick to the front panel.
278. MALOUF, David. Johnno. NY: George Braziller (1978). The first American edition of his first novel, originally published in Australia in 1975. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
279. MARKHAM, Beryl. West With the Night. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1942. The pioneering female aviator's autobiography. Mild mottling to cloth and foxing to top edge and endpages; near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with modest edge wear and one small chip (laid in) at the upper rear flap fold. Overall an attractive copy of this uncommon and important book.
280. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Race Rock. NY: Harper & Brothers (1954). The author's first novel, published just after he returned from Paris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. The book is dedicated to Deborah Love; she and Matthiessen were married from 1963 until her death in 1972. Kennett Love was a former New York Times reporter, specializing in Middle Eastern affairs. His book Suez: The Twice-Fought War is considered the standard work on the subject. He was also involved in a celebrated lawsuit in which a Wall Street Journal writer implied that Love had been involved in the 1953 Iranian coup that brought the Shah to power, and that his involvement was CIA-related. This is the issue in blue cloth and black boards; the priority has not been determined. Love's ownership signature on front flyleaf (and hunting license page 112); offsetting from laid in review on pp. 42-43; spine cloth faded. Still about near fine in a supplied, very good dust jacket heavily rubbed along the folds and with a replaced chip at the spine base. Also laid in is a postcard from a bookstore, quoting the book to Love for $5.00, in 1967. An excellent association copy, being inscribed to the brother of the dedicatee.
281. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. At Play in the Fields of the Lord. NY: Random House (1965). His fourth novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award and filmed nearly thirty years later. A tale of various Americans with widely divergent aims whose actions all have unintended effects on a tribe of Stone Age Amazonian Indians. This was the first fictional treatment of one of the themes that has dominated Matthiessen's writings, both fiction and nonfiction, over the last 30 years -- the impact of Europeans on the environment and on the indigenous cultures living in relative harmony with it, from a perspective that combines the political, cultural and spiritual. Stain to extreme lower page edges; else fine in a dust jacket with just a hint of sunning. An unusually nice copy of this book.
282. McCARRY, Charles. The Miernik Dossier. NY: Saturday Review Press (1973). His first novel, a spy thriller that was highly praised for its authenticity: the author worked for the CIA in the 1950s, and his novels have set a standard for realism that few writers outside of John Le Carré have approached. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
283. McCARRY, Charles. The Tears of Autumn. NY: Saturday Review Press/Dutton, 1975. His second novel, a spy thriller centered on the assassination of JFK. Foxing to top edge; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.
284. McCARTHY, Cormac. Blood Meridian. NY: Random House (1985). His fifth book, a novel of the Old West, based on an actual series of events in 1849-1850 in Texas and Mexico, and rendered with an eye to bringing to life the surreal violence of the time and place. One of the most highly regarded books by this Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. McCarthy is notably reclusive; books signed by him are uncommon.
285. McCARTHY, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. NY: Knopf, 1992. The first volume of the Border Trilogy, a landmark novel that won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award and propelled its author to "instant" literary celebrity -- after nearly three decades of writing well-received literary novels in relative obscurity. The hardcover edition of this novel went into numerous printings, eventually selling nearly ten times as many copies as all of his previous books combined. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
286. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one slight lower corner bump. Signed first editions of this, the author's breakthrough book, are notably uncommon.
287. (McCARTHY, Cormac). BELL, Vereen M. The Achievement of Cormac McCarthy. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1988). "The first systematic review of an important but little-studied southern writer." An appreciation of McCarthy written after his first five books had been published, but before All the Pretty Horses. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a hint of fading to the spine.
288. McELROY, Joseph. A Smuggler's Bible. NY: Harcourt Brace World (1966). His first book. Trace wear to cloth at spine ends; still fine in a near fine but spine-faded dust jacket.
289. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London): Deutsch (1968). Fine in a fine dust jacket.
290. McELROY, Joseph. Hind's Kidnap. NY: Harper & Row (1969). His second novel. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small front gutter tear and an edge tear at the lower rear spine fold.
291. -. Same title, the first British edition. (London): Anthony Blond (1970). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear. Signed by the author.
292. McEWAN, Ian. The Cement Garden. NY: Simon & Schuster (1978). The first American edition, and the true first edition, of his third book. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear.
293. McEWAN, Ian. Soursweet. London: Faber & Faber (1988). Screenplay by Booker Prize-winning author McEwan, based on the Booker-nominated novel by Timothy Mo. Paperback original; fine in wrappers.
294. McGARRITY, Michael. Tularosa. NY: Norton (1996). His first book, a mystery novel set in New Mexico and introducing Kevin Kerney. Nominated for an Anthony Award for Best First Novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
295. McINERNEY, Jay. Bright Lights, Big City. NY: Vintage Contemporaries (1984). His first book, published as a paperback original in the then-new Vintage Contemporaries series of literary reprints and originals, and one of the books that gave credibility to the newly established publishing venture and also earned its author a degree of instant literary celebrity. Acidification to page edges; else fine in wrappers.
296. McMURTRY, Larry. Sin Killer. NY: Simon & Schuster (2002). The uncorrected proof copy of the first book in "The Berrybender Narratives," a proposed tetralogy. By the author of The Last Picture Show, Lonesome Dove and numerous other contemporary classics of the American West. Fine in wrappers.
297. McPHEE, John. Oranges. NY: FSG (1967). McPhee's third book, a fascinating and entertaining study of oranges in history, biology and culture. McPhee has been credited with being one of the foremost "literary journalists" practicing today -- indeed, with helping to create the genre -- and his subjects are often rooted firmly in the natural world. With a reporting style in which the narrator is seldom visible, and almost never a "participant" in the story, McPhee differs markedly from many of the literary naturalists writing today -- opting to let his choice of topics, and the individuals whom he chooses to interview for their perspectives, define the political, social and moral implications of the subject. In plain but nonetheless elegant prose, McPhee consistently reveals wonders of the world that would otherwise remain completely unknown to the general reader. Sunning to board edges; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
298. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Heinemann (1967). Two page corners turned; else fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket.
299. McPHEE, John. The Pine Barrens. NY: FSG (1968). A review copy of his fourth book, a classic of this kind of reporting: McPhee covers history, natural history, and biography, and in so doing reveals in depth a previously all-but-hidden corner of the world, a wilderness in the heart of the Boston-Richmond megalopolis that occupies one-quarter of the state of New Jersey and is as large as Grand Canyon National Park. Fine in a fine dust jacket. One of his scarcest titles.
300. McPHEE, John. A Roomful of Hovings. NY: FSG (1968). McPhee's fifth book, and the first collection of his excellent New Yorker "Profiles" -- a format he virtually made his own for a time, and whose possibilities he expanded notably. Slight fading to board edges; else fine in a near fine, slightly spine-faded dust jacket.
301. McPHEE, John. Levels of the Game. NY: FSG (1969). An account of a landmark tennis match between Arthur Ashe, the first world-class African-American tennis player, and Clark Graebner, "a middle-class white conservative dentist's son from Cleveland." A detailed, point-by-point account of the match, and an exploration of their different tennis styles that sheds light on their different backgrounds and lives and, by extension, the larger cultural differences to be found within American society. Fine in a fine dust jacket with a corner crease to the front flap.
302. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Macdonald (1970). Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
303. McPHEE, John. The Crofter and the Laird. NY: FSG (1970). McPhee's seventh book, in which he returns to the land of the Scottish clan from which he is descended. Fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a few ridges in the lamination.
304. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Angus and Robertson (1972). Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a nick at mid-spine and an edge tear and other slight wear to the bottom edge.
305. McPHEE, John. Encounters with the Archdruid. NY: FSG (1971). Three essays in which McPhee orchestrates a dialogue/confrontation between "archdruid" David Brower -- a former head of the Sierra Club and founder of the more radical environmental group Friends of the Earth -- and several advocates of development and the "responsible exploitation" of the earth's resources. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a small crimp at the crown and a faint degree of spine fading. A very nice copy of a book that is hard to find in this condition.
306. McPHEE, John. Wimbledon. A Celebration. NY: Viking (1972). Large quarto, illustrated with photographs by Alfred Eisenstadt. The text consists of two pieces by McPhee relating to Wimbledon, one of which appeared in A Roomful of Hovings; one of which appeared only in Playboy. Fine in a very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with tiny nicks at the crown and one corner.
307. McPHEE, John. The Deltoid Pumpkin Seed. NY: FSG (1973). A nonfiction account of a serious, but flawed, attempt to create a new kind of aircraft -- a combination airplane and lighter-than-air airship. An intriguing subject elucidated by McPhee's crystal-clear prose. Sunning to extreme edges of cloth; still fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a faint vertical crease the length of the front panel.
308. -. Same title, the first Ballantine paperback edition. NY: Ballantine (1976). Fine.
309. McPHEE, John. The Curve of Binding Energy. NY: FSG (1974). A lengthy profile of Theodore Taylor, a nuclear physicist who spent years working on an eventually-aborted project to develop a spaceship powered by exploding atomic bombs. In later years he became an expert in preventing the "diversion" of nuclear materials to help limit nuclear proliferation. McPhee's explication of the concepts of nuclear physics necessary to tell this story is remarkable. A spot of bleeding from the cloth to the extreme lower page edges; otherwise a fine copy in a dust jacket with a patch of reddish dampstaining to the lower rear panel; about near fine.
310. -. Same title, the first Ballantine paperback edition. NY: Ballantine (1975). Tiny bump at mid spine; still fine.
311. McPHEE, John. Pieces of the Frame. NY: FSG (1975). One of McPhee's scarcest books, undoubtedly made even more so by virtue of its flimsy, "perfect-bound" construction, whereby the pages, rather than being sewn in signatures, are glued, one-by-one, to the spine. Because it is a collection of diverse short pieces, rather than a book on a single subject, this title probably had a slightly smaller print run than others of his from the same period. However, in our experience, it is considerably scarcer than those other titles, a fact probably explained by its construction. Faint dampstaining at extreme lower page edges; else fine in a near fine dust jacket, with very faint dampstaining visible on the lower rear panel.
312. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author on behalf of a third party. Remainder stripe to top edge; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with just a hint of fading to the green of the spine. Signed books by McPhee are fairly uncommon, this title in particular.
313. McPHEE, John. The John McPhee Reader. NY: FSG (1976). Reprints sections from McPhee's first dozen books, along with an introduction by William Howarth and a checklist of McPhee's writings, including a number of unattributed "Talk of the Town" pieces from The New Yorker. Small dampstain to rear pastedown; paperclip imprint front flyleaf; near fine in a fine dust jacket with a corner crease on the front flap.
314. -. Same title, the first Vintage Books edition. NY: Vintage (1977). Page edges acidifying; otherwise fine in wrappers.
315. McPHEE, John. The Survival of the Bark Canoe. NY: FSG (1976). A portrait of a New Hampshire man who made birch bark canoes in the 1970s in the same manner that the American Indians did prior to the arrival of Europeans on this continent -- using the same materials and tools -- and also an account of a 150-mile canoe trip in Maine in one of the vessels, reminiscent of Thoreau's accounts in The Maine Woods. Small joint stain from an excess of binder's glue; still fine in a fine dust jacket with a hint of shelf wear at the crown. A beautiful copy of one of McPhee's scarcest books to find in fine condition, because of its white, soft paper dust jacket, which is usually soiled and frayed.
316. McPHEE, John. Coming Into the Country. NY: FSG (1977). McPhee's breakthrough book -- three pieces on Alaska from The New Yorker -- which was chosen as a Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and became a modest bestseller, immediately being reprinted a number of times. This is the book by which McPhee went from being a relatively unknown staff writer for The New Yorker -- in general someone less famous than the subjects he profiled -- to being a household name among literary cognoscenti. McPhee's lucid, transparent style has come to define a particular era for The New Yorker much as Thurber's and E. B. White's did for an earlier time. After this book, Farrar Straus brought all his earlier books back into print, even reprinting hardcover editions in some cases. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
317. -. Same title, the Quality Paperback Book Club edition, printed from the sheets of the publisher's first edition. Fine in wrappers.
318. -. Same title, the first Bantam edition. NY: Bantam (1979). Acidification to page edges; trace wear at the crown and a scratch at lower front spine fold; very near fine in wrappers.
319. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Hamish Hamilton (1978). One tiny corner bump; else fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
320. McPHEE, John. Giving Good Weight. NY: FSG (1979). A collection of essays and articles from The New Yorker, one of which -- a profile of an anonymous, but purportedly excellent, restaurateur -- created controversy when the subject of the article, Alan Lieb aka "Otto," speculated that a prominent New York restaurant used frozen fish for one of its plates. Heated denials and threats of libel suits followed, and McPhee issued a retraction in a later issue -- the first time such a thing had happened in the New Yorker's history. In the book, the offending passage is footnoted, along with the succinct disclaimer -- "Otto guessed wrong." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a couple faint lamination scratches. Laid in is a generous review of the book, and the controversy, by Larry McMurtry from New York Times Book Review, as well as an unsourced clipping entitled "The Turbot Controversy (Continued)" which announces that the New Yorker is about to print a correction. Together with the September 1979 issue of Food & Wine, which carries a short piece on "Otto" by Richard Sax which summarizes the controversy and reviews Lieb's restaurant, and a devastating review of the restaurant by Mimi Sheraton, New York Times' restaurant critic, who speculates Lieb uses frozen duck. The most complete overview we have encountered of this minor footnote in contemporary literary history.
321. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Spine-sunned; near fine in wrappers.
322. -. Same title. Folded & gathered sheets of the first edition, unbound, with a note of transmittal from the printer to the publisher. One of at most a handful of such sheets that would have been done; perhaps unique. Fine.
323. McPHEE, John. The Fair of San Gennaro. Portland: Press-22 (1981). McPhee's first signed limited edition and his only "book" of fiction, a story that was originally published in magazine form in 1961, four years before his first book. Of a total edition of 250 copies, this is one of 50 Roman numeraled copies signed by the author. The deluxe copies comprised the entire hardbound edition; the numbered copies were softbound. Fine in a fine slipcase.
324. McPHEE, John. Basin and Range. NY: FSG (1981). The first of his books on geology, which eventually led to his winning the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction for his compilation Annals of the Former World, which included the text of this book. This volume focuses on the geology of the Great Basin. Signed by the author. Fine in a very faintly spine-faded dust jacket.
325. -. Same title, the uncorrected proof copy. Light corner bump; near fine in tall wrappers.
326. McPHEE, John. In Suspect Terrain. NY: FSG (1983). The second of his geology books. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
327. McPHEE, John. Riding the Boom Extension. Worcester: Metacom, 1983. The first book publication of this piece, which first appeared in The New Yorker and was eventually reprinted in Table of Contents. Of a total edition of 176 copies, this is one of 26 lettered, hardbound copies signed by the author, the smallest limitation of any McPhee book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
328. -. Same title. One of 150 numbered copies in saddle-stitched self-wrappers. Fine.
329. McPHEE, John. Annals of the Former World. NY: FSG (1983). One of 450 numbered copies of this two-volume limited edition, reprinting two of McPhee's books on geology, Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain, in uniform bindings and pictorial slipcase. Each volume is signed by the author. A later collection, which added three more of McPhee's works on geology but was published under this same title, won the Pulitzer Prize for 1998. Fine.
330. McPHEE, John. La Place de la Concorde Suisse. NY: FSG (1984). A book which began as a study of the Swiss Army knife and ended up as a study of the Swiss Army. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
331. McPHEE, John. The Founding Fish. NY: FSG (2002). The advance reading copy of his latest book, about the American shad. Expanded from a New Yorker series on the subject. Surface scratch front cover, otherwise fine in wrappers.
332. (McPHEE, John). "A Sense of Where You Are" in Best Magazine Articles: 1966. NY: Crown (1966). Also collects pieces by William Styron, Tom Wolfe, Bernard Fall, Elie Wiesel and Alvin Toffler, among others. Ex-library copy with library stamp on title page; ink stripe rear free endpaper; some fading to cloth. Near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket with tape on verso from a previous jacket protector.
333. (McPHEE, John). "The People of New Jersey's Pine Barrens" in National Geographic, Vol. 145, No, 1. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1974. Text by McPhee, with photographs by William Curtsinger. Near fine. Laid in is an unsourced article on the same subject, from 1977, with text by McPhee and photos by Marvin Mort. McPhee's text, in both instances, is from his 1968 book. In 1981 a new edition of the book was issued, illustrated with Curtsinger's photos.
334. MILLER, Henry. Max and the White Phagocytes. Paris: Obelisk Press [1938]. The second volume in the Villa Seurat series, published in an edition of 1,000 copies by Obelisk, which had published Tropic of Cancer in 1934 and Black Spring in 1936 and would publish Tropic of Capricorn in 1939. A fine copy, in self-wraps, and the nicest copy we have seen of this title in years. A large, fragile book, seldom found in this condition. In custom folding chemise and slipcase.
335. MILLER, Henry. Tropic of Capricorn. Paris: Obelisk Press, 1939. The first edition of Miller's fourth full-length book, the companion volume to his first, Tropic of Cancer. Printed in Paris in an edition of 1000 copies -- the same as Cancer and the other two books published by Obelisk. This issue is an unrecorded variant, with the sheets of the variant first edition (Shifreen & Jackson A21b) and the binding conforming to such on all points but with no price on the spine and a 175 00 price on the back wrapper. Small tear and corner crease on rear cover; near fine in wrappers. Tropic of Capricorn, like Tropic of Cancer, could not be published in the U.S. until nearly three decades later because of its frank depiction of sexual matters, but it wielded an enormous influence from afar, and helped usher in the modern era of literature, in which traditional barriers to the artist's self-expression were abandoned.
336. MILLER, Henry. Sexus. Paris: Obelisk Press (1949). The first edition, in two volumes, of the first book in Miller's "Rosy Crucifixion" trilogy -- Sexus, Nexus and Plexus. Issued in a numbered edition of 3000 copies, apparently without dust jackets. The first volume has a white stain on the rear (green) cloth. Both volumes bear scars to the endpages from the application and removal of green plastic tape, which once affixed a homemade dust jacket: ugly endpages; very good, without jackets, as issued, and without the fading to the spines that is usually endemic to this title.
337. MILLER, Henry. Autograph Note Signed. Undated. A 5" x 3" card: "June -/ Tell me what/ you have read/ and I'll know/ better what to/ send!/ Henry." A short but nice sentiment, not only linking Miller with June, his muse, but also with the literary dimension of their lives together. Near fine.
338. MILLHAUSER, Steven. Martin Dressler. NY: Crown (1996). The uncorrected proof copy of the author's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Fine in wrappers.
339. MILNE, A.A. When We Were Very Young. London: Methuen (1924). The first children's book by the author of the classic Winnie-the-Pooh series, a collection of verses written for his son Christopher, and introducing Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. This is the British limited edition, published in an edition of 100 copies, this being an unnumbered presentation copy inscribed by Milne to his publisher, C.W. Chamberlain, Esq., co-owner of Methuen publishing company. Also signed by the illustrator, E.H. Shepard, who illustrated all of the later Pooh books as well. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket sunned in a pattern of vertical stripes; in a custom clamshell box. When We Were Very Young is the scarcest of the Pooh books in the first edition, both in the trade edition and the limited; when Winnie-the-Pooh was published, its first printing was seven times larger than that of the first book. Copies of the signed limited seldom appear on the market, and a copy such as this -- inscribed by the author to a notable figure in the book's publishing history rather than just signed -- are exceptionally uncommon.
340. MILNE, A.A. The House at Pooh Corner. NY: Dutton (1928). The limited American edition of the sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh. One of 250 numbered copies in gilt-stamped salmon-colored cloth, signed by the author and by the illustrator, E.H. Shepard. Paperclip impression on flyleaf; else fine, with no fading to the cloth spine, as is usually found. Much scarcer than the large paper limited edition that was issued in dust jacket, especially in fine condition.
341. MINOT, Susan. Monkeys. NY: Dutton (1986). Her first book, a well-received novel that was quickly reprinted. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
342. MO, Timothy. The Monkey King. Garden City: Doubleday, 1980. The first American edition of his highly praised first novel, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Remainder speckling; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a slight edge crease.
343. MO, Timothy. Brownout on Breadfruit Boulevard. (London): Paddlepress (1995). The first edition of this novel which, to the best of our knowledge, has had no U.S. edition to date. Reportedly printed in an edition of only about 900 copies in hardcover, by a publishing company the author created himself. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
344. MOODY, Rick. The Ice Storm. Boston: Little Brown (1994). His second book, made into a film by Ang Lee that won an award at Cannes, for best screenplay adaptation from a novel. Moody was chosen as one of The New Yorker's twenty best young American authors. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
345. MOODY, Rick. Surplus Value Books: Catalog Number 13. (Santa Monica): Danger Books/(Indulgence Press) (1999)[2002]. The second limited edition, and first hardcover edition of this book that is virtually a novella in the form of a book dealer's catalog. Moody has created a hilarious and touching self-contained world where the values that are accorded to the items for sale (dollars) and the values inherent in them (significance, artistry, passion) are in running comic contrast. Moody has his tongue in his cheek but also his heart on his sleeve; many of the entries embody a sensitivity and tenderness surprising in such a send-up. An effective, even haunting riff on rare book catalogs. First published in 1999 in a wrappered edition of 1213 copies, this edition is limited to 200 hardbound copies, of which this is one of 174 numbered copies signed by the author and by the publisher, David Ford. Attractively bound in quarter leather and white paper boards. Fine in a fine slipcase. List price:
346. MOSLEY, Walter. Gone Fishin'. Baltimore: Black Classic Press (1997). The sixth Easy Rawlins novel, this one a prequel to the series. Published by a small black-owned press. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
347. MURDOCH, Iris. The Bell. NY: Viking, 1958. The first American edition of her fourth novel and the first of her books to portray the complicated and sophisticated sexual relationships for which she became well-known. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing to the edges and folds.