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Catalog 135, G-H

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108. GARDNER, John. The Wreckage of Agathon. NY: Harper & Row (1970). Gardner's second novel. With the ownership signature of D.M. Thomas on the front pastedown. Some darkening to pastedowns; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small creased edge tear at the upper front spine fold.

109. GIBBONS, Kaye. Ellen Foster. Chapel Hill: Algonquin, 1987. Her highly acclaimed first novel, which won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded a special citation by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. It was recently selected in London as one of the 20 best novels of the 20th century, and has become a classic coming-of-age novel and a part of the canon, frequently being combined on school reading lists with The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Catcher in the Rye. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

110. -. Another copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

111. -. Another copy. Signed twice by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

112. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Jonathan Cape (1988). Signed by the author, who has also transcribed the last line of the book. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

113. -. Same title, a broadside announcement of the Hallmark Hall of Fame television presentation. (n.p.): Hallmark, 1997. 8 1/2" x 14". Listing cast and crew and "Based on the Novel by Kaye Gibbons." Signed by Gibbons in Los Angeles in October, 1997. Fine. According to the author, only three copies of this were ever signed by her.

114. GIBBONS, Kaye. Family Life. (Rocky Mount): North Carolina Wesleyan College Press (1990). A limited edition, printing chapters from her then-forthcoming book A Cure for Dreams. One of 500 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.

115. GIBBONS, Kaye. From Charms for the Easy Life. (n.p.): North Carolina Wesleyan College, 1993. A broadside excerpt, published in an edition of 500 copies on the occasion of a reading by Gibbons. Signed by the author and dated 22 September, 1993. After which Gibbons has added: "Rocky Mount/ home." 8 1/2" x 14". Fine. Again, according to the author, she has only ever signed three copies of this broadside.

116. GIBBONS, Kaye. From "On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon." (n.p.): North Carolina Wesleyan College, 2000. A broadside excerpt, published in an edition of 150 copies on the occasion of a reading by Gibbons. Signed by the author and dated 27 September, 2000. After which Gibbons has added: "Rocky Mount/ home." 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Fine. Again, only three copies have ever been signed.

117. GIBBS, Robert. I've Always Felt Sorry for Decimals. (Canada): (Oberon) (1978). The hardcover issue of this collection of short stories by the Canadian poet and novelist. Inscribed by the author to Australian writer Thomas Shapcott. One light corner bump; very near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with one edge tear.

118. HARRISON, Jim. True North. NY: Grove Press (2004). The limited edition of his latest novel. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine slipcase.

119. HEINLEIN, Robert A. Stranger in a Strange Land. NY: Putnam (1961). 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 occasional use today. Gift inscription to flyleaf; a very near fine copy in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with a touch of color added to the extremities and folds. An attractive looking copy of an important novel of the 1960s that far transcended the science fiction genre.

120. HERBERT, Marie. Winter of the White Seal. London: Collins, 1982. The first British edition of this novel of the Antarctic by a writer who was the wife of a Polar explorer and who lived for two years in northwest Greenland. Inscribed by the author to Earle [Bloomfield], Australian mountaineer and the leader of the Australian Arctic kayaking expedition in 1986. Faint foredge foxing; else fine in a near fine dust jacket.

121. HILLERMAN, Tony. Typescript of Canyon de Chelly. 1987, 1998. The manuscript of this essay as it was submitted to the publisher for production of a limited edition. Photocopied typescript, 26 pages, with the author's holograph corrections. The text is copyright 1987. Together with a typed letter signed by Hillerman from July of 1998, detailing errors found in the proofs; with envelope. Also together with a signature page signed by the illustrator, Ernest Franklin. All elements fine. Manuscript material by Hillerman, one of the most collected of contemporary mystery writers and Southwest writers, is very uncommon and seldom offered on the market.

122. HOAGLAND, Edward. Cat Man. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1956). Second printing of his first book, winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, mildly rubbed dust jacket with one short edge tear. From the author's own library.

123. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Circle Home. NY: Thomas Y. Crowell (1960). His second book, a novel. Hoagland has since become most well-known for his essays, particularly on natural history; John Updike called him the finest essayist of his generation. Signed by the author. Pages unevenly browning with age, as two different paper stocks were used in production; else fine in a near fine, rubbed dust jacket with one short edge tear. A very nice copy, from the author's own library.

124. 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. Signed by the author. Hoagland, whose fiction has won literary awards, is most highly acclaimed as an essayist, and his first book of nonfiction is thus a landmark in his writing career. Light corner bumps; else fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy, from the author's own library.

125. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Courage of Turtles. NY: Random House (1970). His first collection of essays. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket; a nice copy, from the author's own library.

126. HOAGLAND, Edward. Walking the Dead Diamond River. NY: Random House (1973). His second collection of essays, many of them dealing with the natural world, especially in New England, and including accounts of walks in the Green and White Mountains and a canoe trip in Maine. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

127. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Moose on the Wall. London: Barrie & Jenkins (1974). The first edition of this collection of "field notes from the Vermont wilderness," published in England and for which there is no comparable U.S. edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. From the author's own library.

128. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Edward Hoagland Reader. NY: Random House (1979). Edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey Wolff. Collects pieces from Hoagland's earlier nonfiction books, with a checklist of his published writings to date. The Washington Post called Hoagland "a Thoreau of our time." Signed by Hoagland. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with blurbs by Edward Abbey and Alfred Kazin.

129. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Tugman's Passage. NY: Random House (1982). Another well-received collection of essays. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a slight crimp at the crown. From the author's library.

130. 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. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

131. -. Same title. Third printing. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

132. HOAGLAND, Edward. The Final Fate of the Alligators. Santa Barbara: Capra Press (1992). The first book publication of these stories and an essay, which Hoagland wrote in the 1960s, before his first books of nonfiction were published. With an introduction by Hoagland that puts the pieces in context and reflects on writing and writers. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers, with no evidence of there having been a hardcover edition.

133. HOAGLAND, Edward. Balancing Acts. (NY): Simon & Schuster (1992). A collection of essays, his first in a decade. Inscribed by the author. Small nick to contents page; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket.

134. HOAGLAND, Edward. Compass Points. NY: Pantheon Books (2001). A collection of reminiscences. Inscribed by the author in 2003. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

135. HONIG, Edwin. The Affinities of Orpheus. Providence: Copper Beech, 1976. A collection of poetry. Inscribed by the author to Gwendolyn Brooks in 1977. Spine and edge foxing; near fine in wrappers. A nice association copy.

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