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101. HANNAH, Barry. Nightwatchmen. NY: Viking (1973). His second and, according to many, scarcest book. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1988. Edge-sunned cloth; otherwise near fine in a very good, heavily and unevenly sunned dust jacket.
102. HANNAH, Barry. Airships. NY: Knopf, 1978. His third book and first collection of stories, widely considered a contemporary classic of the new Southern Gothic. Minor offsetting at the hinges from binder's glue; near fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket with a few tiny edge tears.
103. HANNAH, Barry. Hey Jack! NY: Dutton/Lawrence (1987). Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence, who published the book, in 1987: "For Sam,/ My great good/ publisher and pal!/ Barry Hannah." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
104. HANNAH, Don. The Wise and Foolish Virgins. (Toronto): Knopf (1998). The first novel by this award-winning Canadian playwright. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the upper rear flap fold.
105. HARDWICK, Elizabeth. The Simple Truth. NY: Harcourt Brace (1955). The second novel by this writer who was a longtime contributor to The Partisan Review and The New York Review of Books and was married to the poet Robert Lowell for more than two decades. Inscribed by the author to a well known book collector "who finds everything." Watermark at spine base, visible only on verso of dust jacket; still near fine in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
106. HARRIS, Mark. Friedman & Son. NY: Macmillan (1963). A play, with a 58-page autobiographical preface. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "For Bill Sloane,/ colleague at Bread Loaf -/ with good wishes." William Sloane was a longtime faculty member at the Bread Loaf writers' conference. After his death, a Bread Loaf Fellowship was instituted in his name. Faint foxing to top edge; else fine in a lightly spine-faded dust jacket with a couple small corner chips; still about near fine.
107. HARRISON, Jim. Farmer. NY: Viking (1976). Harrison's third novel. This is the second issue, measuring less than 5" from spine cloth to board edge. Because of binding problems, the first printing of this book was recalled and "a completely new first printing" was issued. Inscribed by the author to filmmaker Paul Bartel in 1980 with a full-page self-caricature. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
108. HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall, Revenge, The Man Who Gave Up His Name. (NY): Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence (1979). The one-volume trade edition of this collection of novellas. Inscribed by the author to filmmaker Paul Bartel in 1980. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association: two of the three novellas in this collection were made into movies, including the title piece, which won an Academy Award.
109. HAWKES, John. The Passion Artist. NY: Harper & Row (1979). Inscribed by Hawkes to author and critic Richard Gilman: "For Dick/ with affection/ and admiration/ Jack." A nice association: Gilman was a longtime drama critic, essayist, and author of such books as Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet and The Making of Modern Drama, among many others. Near fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket, rubbed at the folds.
110. HAZZARD, Shirley. Cliffs of Fall. NY: Knopf, 1963. The first book by the author of the recent National Book Award winner, The Great Fire. This is a collection of short stories, most of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. With the ownership signature of Maeve Brennan, an author, reviewer, and longtime friend and lover of poet Philip Larkin, about whom she wrote a book. Page edges foxed, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket.
111. HAZZARD, Shirley. The Evening of the Holiday. NY: Knopf, 1966. Her second book, first novel. Fine in a near fine, slightly spine-dulled dust jacket.
112. HAZZARD, Shirley. Transit of Venus. NY: Viking (1980). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel that won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Light overall dust soiling to wrappers and one mark on front cover; near fine.
113. HEALY, Jeremiah. Act of God. NY: Pocket Books (1994). A mystery novel in his series featuring Boston private eye John Francis Cuddy. This is an advance copy with a publisher's promotional sheet laid in. Signed by the author. Mottling to spine cloth; near fine in a near fine dust jacket discolored on verso.
114. HEANEY, Seamus. The Spirit Level. NY: FSG (1996). The first American edition of this book by the Irish Nobel Prize winner. Signed by the author in 1999. With the ownership signature of another poet. Fine in a fine dust jacket, and slipcased together with a boxed audio cassette of the author reading his work.
115. HEGI, Ursula. Intrusions. NY: Viking (1981). The first book by the award-winning author of Stones From the River, among others. Warmly inscribed by Hegi in 1982: "For ____ - whose character Duane keeps haunting me - Ursula." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
116. HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1961. The advance reading copy of Heller's first book, a black comedy of World War II and military life whose title has become a part of the language, signifying a contradictory set of instructions or constraints. This book was the basis for a well-received film and one of the novels that helped define the ethos of the 1960s: funny, irreverent, and critical of established authority and bureaucracy. One of the few books to be listed on each of the Modern Library, Radcliffe, Waterstone's and New York Public Library lists of the great books of the 20th century. Very light spine- and edge-sunning to wrappers; one slight corner crease; near fine, and much less spine-darkened than most copies that turn up. With a 5 1/4" x 6 3/16" publisher's summary laid in, with an "About the Author" note. Despite the fact that we have seen many copies of this advance issue over the years, we've never seen another with this ephemeral insert. A very nice copy of an important first book, and bibliographically significant with respect to the presence of the publisher's summary card.
117. HELLMAN, Lillian. Scoundrel Time. Boston: Little Brown (1976). The third volume of memoirs by the acclaimed playwright, this one focusing on the period of the McCarthy era and the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the uncorrected proof copy, with a number of hand corrections to the text. Paperclip mark to front cover; spine sunned; offsetting front flyleaf; still about near fine in wrappers.
118. HELPRIN, Mark. Refiner's Fire. NY: Knopf, 1977. The second book, first novel by this writer who is also a contributing editor to The Wall Street Journal and a Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank -- a notable divergence from the usual liberal bent of American literary figures. Inscribed by the author in 1984. Light corner bumping; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
119. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises. NY: Scribner, 1926. The first edition, first issue, with "stoppped" on page 181, line 26. The total first printing of this novel was 5090 copies, and by all appearances the first issue was much smaller than the corrected second issue. Hemingway's breakthrough book, which established him as a major author, conveyed the disillusionment of the American and British expatriates in Europe after the First World War; and the Gertrude Stein comment that he used as an epigraph -- "You are all a lost generation" -- stuck: his book came to be viewed as the one that defined and embodied the Lost Generation. Coffee splots pp. 110-111; general handling to boards and a bit of loss to the spine label. A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.
120. HERSEY, John. Blues. NY: Knopf, 1987. A novel in the form of an angling journal, and a reflection on fish and fishing, by the author of Hiroshima, among others. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear.
121. HEYEN, William. The Bees. (Syracuse): Tamarack (1981). An attractive letterpress chapbook, one of 250 numbered copies in wrappers of a total edition of 376. Inscribed by the author to Richard Hugo and dated in the year of publication. Fine in wrappers. A nice production, and a good literary association.
122. HOAGLAND, Edward. Notes from the Century Before. NY: Random House (1969). His first book of nonfiction, subtitled "A Journal from British Columbia." A personal recollection of the author's travels, which also touches on the history, both natural and cultural, of the region. Inscribed by the author to poet Edwin Honig in the month preceding publication. Honig is a much-decorated poet who founded the Brown University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Hoagland, whose fiction has won literary awards, is most highly acclaimed as an essayist, one of the finest of our time, and his first book of nonfiction is thus a landmark in his writing career. Light spotting and fading to the top edges of the pages, otherwise fine in a dust jacket with mild surface soiling and slight wear at the spine crown, otherwise also fine. A nice association and an early signature on this important volume.
123. HOAGLAND, Edward. Seven Rivers West. NY: Summit (1986). A novel on which the author reportedly worked for 20 years, and which combined his passion for, and knowledge of, the natural world with a careful attention to historical detail and a rich literary imagination. Hoagland began his writing career as a novelist, winning a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award for his first novel, Cat Man. He later began writing nonfiction, publishing a number of highly praised volumes of nonfiction, and being called by John Updike "the best essayist of my generation." This was his first novel published in more than two decades. Inscribed by the author to film critic Pauline Kael. Laid in is a typed note signed by the author: "Dear Pauline: This is my magnum opus. Would it have a shot at the movies?" The note has some light offsetting from a review laid in next to it; the book is fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association copy of a major work by one of America's most esteemed writers.
124. HOFFMAN, Alice. Here on Earth. NY: Putnam (1997). A novel by the bestselling author of Property Of and Practical Magic, among others. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
125. HUGO, Richard. What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American. NY: Norton (1975). A review copy of this collection of poems of the American West, by a Montana poet whose poetry was twice nominated for the National Book Award, and who was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in two different genres -- fiction and poetry. Hugo also became editor of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets series a few years after this book was published. This copy is inscribed by the author. Hugo's signature is quite uncommon. Spine-slant; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the upper rear spine fold, with publisher's review slip laid in.