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177. HANNAH, Barry. Geronimo Rex. NY: Viking (1972). His first book, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won the William Faulkner Prize. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1987: "For Sam Lawrence,/ My great publisher/ and friend. Long may/ you reign -- Barry Hannah." An excellent association: Lawrence became Hannah's publisher in the mid-1980s, and Hannah stayed with him until Lawrence died. One of his later books, Never Die, was dedicated to Lawrence. Top edges faded, shadow front pastedown; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket tanned at the top edge.
178. HANNAH, Barry. Airships. NY: Knopf, 1978. His third book and first collection of stories, widely considered a contemporary classic of the new Southern Gothic. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1986. Top edges sunned; near fine in a near fine spine- and edge-sunned dust jacket.
179. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. The front cover bears a typewritten notice declaring this book to be the "First Winner of the Arnold Gingrich Short Fiction Award," sponsored by Esquire magazine and Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in wrappers.
180. HARR, Jonathan. A Civil Action. NY: Random House (1995). The advance reading copy of his acclaimed National Book Award winner, a nonfiction account of a legal case against a corporate polluter brought by the families of the victims of the alleged pollution. The book went into numerous printings, being re-released after an initial slow response, and was then made into a well-received movie starring John Travolta. Fine in wrappers, and signed by the author. The first edition itself is quite scarce these days; the advance issue even more so.
181. HARRIS, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs. NY: St. Martin's (1988). His highly acclaimed third novel, which introduced one of the archetypal villains in contemporary literature. Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the basis for the Jonathan Demme film. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
182. HEANEY, Seamus. The Makings of a Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wadsworth and Yeats. (n.p.): University of Liverpool, 1978. A pamphlet printing the text of the first of the Kenneth Alcott Lectures, which Heaney delivered in February, 1978. Fine in stapled wrappers. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
183. HEANEY, Seamus. Field Work. NY: FSG (1979). The first American edition of this collection of poetry by the Irish Nobel Prize winner. Signed by the author in 1982. One page has a small smudge and edge tear, not affecting any text; else fine in a fine dust jacket with a stray pen mark to the cover.
184. HEANEY, Seamus. Among Schoolchildren. (n.p.): John Malone Memorial Committee, 1983. A lecture delivered at the Queen's University in Belfast. Fine in stapled wrappers.
185. HEANEY, Seamus. Place and Displacement. (n.p.): (Trustees of Dove Cottage) (1984). The Pete Laver Memorial Lecture, on contemporary poetry of northern Ireland. Fine in stapled wrappers and dust wrapper.
186. HEARON, Shelby. The Second Dune. NY: Knopf, 1973. Review copy of her second novel, winner of the 1973 Texas Institute of Letters Fiction Award. Inscribed by the author "with love." Fine in a fine dust jacket with trace dust soiling. With review slip and photo laid in.
187. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. [NY: Putnam, 1961]. Taiwan piracy of Heinlein's classic, winner of the Hugo Award for best novel of the year, and one of the most influential books on the counterculture of the Sixties. Only a handful of novels were significant in helping articulate the terms by which the counterculture defined itself: the era was characterized more by experiment and experience. This novel, however, with its society of aliens who indulged in free love, lived communally, and communicated telepathically, anticipated many of the aspects of the hippie movement, and its attempt to redefine the social contract. Heinlein's imagined world suggested that new paradigms of behavior could be invented, as he had, by intellectual inclination, emotional predilection, and sheer will. The book was so widely read that at least one invented alien word -- grok, meaning to understand fully, with one's complete being -- became a part of the hippie vernacular and is still in use today. Previous owner name; near fine in a very good jacket, with an internally repaired tear at the upper edge of the front panel.
188. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. NY: Scribner, 1940. Hemingway's last great novel, a partisan tale of the Spanish Civil War, which he had covered as a journalist, and which was charged with great portentousness in the days leading up to the Second World War. For Whom the Bell Tolls has been called Hemingway's most ambitious novel, and it is the one in which his political convictions reveal themselves most fully: he effectively conveys the idea that a people's freedom is worth fighting, and even dying, for. This passionate defense of the ill-fated Spanish Republic was so compelling that 30 years later, under the Franco government, the book was still entirely banned in Spain; copies were smuggled into the country and passed around surreptitiously. Two owner names on the front flyleaf, some offsetting to the front endpapers, and a bit of rubbing to the spine cloth; still near fine in a very good, first issue dust jacket, rubbed mostly along the spine and flap folds, and inexpertly colored at the extremities, although this is most noticeable on the verso, where there is also one tape repair. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1954.
189. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Wild Years. (NY): Dell (1962). A posthumously published paperback original, collecting 73 newspaper articles Hemingway wrote for The Toronto Star from 1920-1024. Organized by subject. Light vertical crease to front cover; corner crease to rear; about near fine in wrappers.
190. (HEMINGWAY, Ernest.) Ship's Log Signed. c. 1934. The passenger log for the private yacht, Minoco, from December, 1932 to March, 1937. Signed by Ernest and Pauline Hemingway. Hemingway has signed his name in full, with his street address and "Key West Florida." While the Hemingways' entry is undated, it is apparently from the winter of 1934-35. The Minoco was a large private yacht, apparently based near Chicago during the warm months of the year, which, along with various other yachts from the northern climes, wintered in Key West during the mid-1930s. Apparently, the owners hired out for private trips, ranging from day trips to two-week fishing trips, and kept a log for the passengers to sign and leave their comments. By the evidence here, it was quite a luxurious vessel, and many of the passengers, especially during the summer months, came from the wealthy suburbs of Chicago, Oak Park in particular. Hemingway grew up in Oak Park, and it may be this connection that prompted him to visit the Minoco in 1934, despite the fact that he already had his own boat, the Pilar, and had spent much of the summer and fall fishing on it, from a base in Havana. The log has also been signed by Jean Harlow, in 1933. Harlow has added, in the "Remarks" section, "What a man Dalling." Hundreds of other (nonfamous) signatures and also many character sketches, tipped in or laid in, most signed "Casey," and one sketch of Harlow by Dorothy M. Rohn, the wife of the skipper of the boat. Two snapshots of the Minoco are also laid in, one of them showing a number of large fish hanging over the side of the vessel. An intriguing glimpse of a moment, hitherto undocumented, in Hemingway's life at a time when he was perhaps the most famous writer in America. Leatherbound, professionally rebacked, with a cut jade circular emblem laid in. 11" x 14". Near fine.
191. (HEMINGWAY, Ernest). McNEIL, Morris and apparently Ernest HEMINGWAY. Hokum. Wellesley Hills: Sans Souci Press (1978). One of 73 hors commerce copies, bound in off-white buckram in a green dust jacket, but apparently lacking the green slipcase (according to the colophon). This was printed from a manuscript found long after Hemingway died, and constitutes his first known book, written in 1920-21, two years before the publication of Three Stories and Ten Poems. Fine.
192. -. Another copy. A review copy in the binding of the trade edition -- brown buckram in beige dust jacket and slipcase. Fine.
193. (HEMINGWAY, Ernest). VILLARD, Henry Serrano and James Nagel. Hemingway in Love and War: The Lost Diary of Agnes von Kurowsky, Her Letters and Correspondence of Ernest Hemingway. (n.p.): Northeastern University Press (1989). The uncorrected proof copy of this study of Hemingway's relationship with von Kurowsky, which prints a number of letters from Hemingway, and excerpts from other writings and talks he gave. Basis for the film "In Love and War." Fine in wrappers.
194. -. Same title, the proof copy of the reissue (NY: Hyperion, 1996). Fine.
195. HENLEY, Beth. Crimes of the Heart. NY: Viking (1982). The uncorrected proof copy of her Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Henley also wrote the screenplay for the Bruce Beresford film. Fine in wrappers. Uncommon.
196. HESSE, Hermann. Steppenwolf. NY: Henry Holt (1929). A review copy of the first American edition of the Nobel Prize winner's classic novel of the dark side of an artistic personality. A fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket, but with the publisher's review slip laid in. A scarce title, and we have never seen another prepublication copy of it before.
197. HESSE, Hermann. Narcissus and Goldmund. Berlin: G. Fischer Verlag (1930). The first edition, in German, of one of Hesse's major novels, which chronicles the unlikely friendship between a monastic ascetic and a sensual existentialist who is determined to live life to the fullest. In contrasting the two approaches to life's mysteries and human yearnings, Hesse ultimately sees the paths as complementary, each approach augmented not only by the other's but more importantly each individual enriched and fulfilled by the bond of friendship in a way that their solitary paths do not provide. Inscribed by the author beneath a full page drawing of a tree, on a page mounted to the front flyleaf. Slight fading to spine cloth; else fine in a near fine jacket with a slightly tanned spine and a couple of tiny nicks.
198. HIJUELOS, Oscar. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. NY: FSG (1989). Hijuelos' second book, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and later the basis for a well-received, Oscar-nominated movie. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some small surface scratches.
199. -. Same title. The uncorrected proof copy. A very scarce proof, as most advance copies were issued in a more polished format with pictorial wrappers. Near fine in plain green wrappers.
200. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. In contrast to his first book, which was published by one of the smallest of the mainstream New York trade publishers, this novel had a first printing indicated to be 40,000 copies, and an initial advertising budget of $50,000 -- both very high numbers for a relatively little-known writer. Thus, the first trade edition is not especially scarce, whereas the advance copy was probably issued in numbers of 1000 or so. Fine in wrappers.
201. HOAGLAND, Edward. Cat Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. A review copy of his first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Fine in an about near fine dust jacket with several short edge tears. An attractive copy of a book that because of its unlaminated dust jacket shows wear easily.
202. HOSPITAL, Janette Turner. The Ivory Swing. (Toronto): McLelland & Stewart (1982). The uncorrected proof copy of her first book, winner of Canada's Seal First Novel Award. Light edge-soiling to lower front cover; else near fine in ringbound cardstock wrappers.
203. HOUSEWRIGHT, David. Penance. Woodstock: Countryman Press (1995). His first novel, a Holland Taylor mystery, winner of the Edgar Award. Signed by Housewright. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Laid in is an autograph note signed by the author.
204. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a slight crimp at the crown.
205. HULME, Keri. The Bone People. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press (1985). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of this Booker Prize-winning novel, by a Maori author from New Zealand. "Uncorrected Proof" written on front cover; near fine in spine-faded wrappers.