Catalog 147, N-R
165. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. I Would Steal Horses. Niagra Falls: Slipstream, 1992. His second book, published in March of the same year that The Business of Fancydancing was issued. A collection of poetry, published as Slipstream's fifth annual Chapbook Contest Winner. Only issued in stapled wrappers. This copy is inscribed by Alexie in the year of publication: "For ___- Steal Horses! Best, Sherman Alexie 11/22/92." The recipient was a student at Spokane Falls Community College, and Alexie made an appearance there to give a reading. Alexie grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Washington, about 50 miles northwest of the city of Spokane. Small faint spot on contents page; else fine. Very scarce: this is only the second copy we've seen, the last one having been more than a decade ago.
166. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. Reservation Blues. (NY): Warner Books (1996). A later printing of the paperback reprint of his first novel, originally published in 1995. Inscribed by the author to a literary couple, "in the rain of Santa Barbara." Fine in wrappers. A nice association copy.
167. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight In Heaven. (NY): Harper Perennial (1999). A later printing of the paperback reprint of this 1993 collection. Inscribed by Alexie to a literary couple, "in friendship." Fine in wrappers. A good association copy.
168. (Native American). ALEXIE, Sherman. Flight. NY: Black Cat (2007). The advance reading copy (marked "Uncorrected Proof") of this novel published as a paperback original. Alexie won the 2007 National Book Award for Young People's Literature for his novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Fine in wrappers. An uncommon proof.
169. (Native American). LIPPS, Oscar H. Our National Indian Problem and the Chief Factors in Its Solution. (Chilocco, OK): Chilocco Indian Vocational School, (n.d.) [1933]. Lipps, Superintendent of the Sacramento Indian Agency, argues that the Indian should be, and must be willing to be, part of the American melting pot with the "Japanese, Chinese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and other brown races enrolled in our private colleges and universities, frequently enduring privation and social ostracism." Illustrated; near fine in stapled wrappers. A fresh, attractive copy. Printed by Indian students at the Oklahoma vocational school.
170. (Native American). MOMADAY, N. Scott. The Ancient Child. NY: Doubleday (1989). A novel by the first, and still only, Native American writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, for his 1968 novel House Made of Dawn. Inscribed by Momaday to another writer in the year of publication. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with minor edge wear.
171. (Native American). OWENS, Louis. John Steinbeck's Re-Vision of America. Athens: University of Georgia (1985). A scholarly study, preceding any of his works of fiction by several years, and one of two books of nonfiction he wrote about John Steinbeck's work. Inscribed by Owens to another writer. Fine in a near fine, spine-faded dust jacket. An uncommon book by an enormously versatile writer, who was a Steinbeck scholar before he published any fiction or his influential study of Native American literature, Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel. A nice association copy.
172. (Native American). Teionkwahontasen: Basketmakers of Akwesasne. (Hogansburg): Akwesasne Museum, 1984. The catalog of a traveling photographic exhibition of the weavers of the sweetgrass baskets that have been part of tribal tradition and culture since before the arrival of the Europeans in America. Part of the publication is bilingual, in both English and Mohawk; the bulk of the text is in English only; an afterword is in Mohawk only. There is a short bibliography of "Other Publications of Interest," mostly having to do with basketry. Quarto. A few small abrasions; near fine in stapled wrappers. Scarce.
173. (Native American). WELCH, James. The Indian Lawyer. NY: Norton (1990). The uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by Welch to another writer, "with good memories of good times." A read copy: spine slanted, with a small tear at the spine base and uneven sunning; very good in wrappers. Scarce signed, and a nice association copy.
174. NESSER, Hakan. Borkman's Point. NY: Pantheon Books (2006). The advance reading copy of the first American edition of this Swedish writer's first mystery novel to be published in the U.S., part of an ongoing, extremely popular series. The success of Swedish mystery writer Henning Mankell, whose books have become bestsellers in English, has opened the floodgates to translations of other highly successful and popular Scandinavian authors. Fine in wrappers.
175. O'HARA, Frank. Second Avenue. NY: Totem Press/Corinth Books (1960). A collection of poetry by one of the key figures of the New York School. This is the first issue, printed in black and red on the front cover, with cover illustration by Larry Rivers and title and author on a pasted-on label. Signed by the author on the title page. With poet Ted Berrigan's 1962 ownership signature and a couple of marginal notations by him. An interesting and important association copy: Berrigan is one of the important writers in the so-called "second generation" of poets in the New York School. A bit of spotting to the covers; near fine in stapled wrappers.
176. ORLOVSKY, Peter. Clean Asshole Poems & Smiling Vegetable Songs. San Francisco: City Lights Books (1978). The first edition of this collection by Allen Ginsberg's longtime partner. Signed by the author and dated "Dec 18, 1978 Gotham Book Mart celebration." Near fine in wrappers. Scarce in the original edition, and especially with a contemporary signature by the author.
177. OZICK, Cynthia. Heir to the Glimmering World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. The advance reading copy of her fourth novel, among many other books of fiction and nonfiction. Her most recent novel prior to this, The Puttermesser Papers, was a finalist for the National Book Award. Fine in wrappers.
178. POWERS, Richard. The Echo Maker. NY: FSG (2006). The advance reading copy of his most recent novel, which won the 2006 National Book Award. His earlier novel, Operation Wandering Soul, was a finalist for the award in 1993. Among his various other awards and honors, Powers was the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." Fine in wrappers.
179. PRITCHARD, Melissa. The Instinct for Bliss. Cambridge: Zoland Books (1995). Her second collection of stories. Her first collection, Spirit Seizures, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. Warmly inscribed by Pritchard to a literary couple. Fine in a mildly spine-faded, else fine dust jacket.
180. REDGRAVE, Michael. The Actor's Ways and Means. London: Heinemann (1954). Second printing of this book on acting by one of the most highly regarded actors of his era, and a member of perhaps the family most engaged in the acting profession ever: his parents were actors; his wife was an actor; his three children were/are actors; and five grandchildren are involved in the film industry, four of them as actors. Signed by the author on the title page and additionally inscribed on the front endpaper to actress Leora Dana, "with affection." Edge-sunned; near fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket with small chips at the spine ends and rubbing to the folds.
181. ROBINSON, Marilynne. Housekeeping. NY: FSG (1980). Her first book and her only novel until Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. Housekeeping won the Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award, a Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, and was the basis for a well-received movie; it was also named one of the best works of American fiction of the last quarter century in a survey by The New York Times Book Review. This is a near fine copy with edge-sunned boards, a slight spine lean and foxing to page edges, in a near fine dust jacket nicked at the crown. Author photo (but no review slip) laid in.
182. ROBINSON, Marilynne. Mother Country. NY: FSG (1989). The uncorrected proof copy of her second book and first book of nonfiction, about the nuclear industry in Great Britain. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. Scarce.
183. ROBINSON, Marilynne. The Death of Adam. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998. A collection of "essays on modern thought" by the Pulitzer Prize winning novelist. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
184. -. Same title. NY: Picador (2005). First thus, a reissue published after her second novel, Gilead, won the Pulitzer Prize. This is a review copy, with 8 pages of promotional information laid in. Fine in wrappers.
185. ROTH, Philip. Letting Go. Boston: Calliope, 1963. A 33 1/3 RPM long play record (albeit only 7", the size of a typical 45 RPM) of Roth reading from his second book. Fine in a creased inner sleeve and a near fine, mildly rubbed outer sleeve with a small nick at the spine. Includes two paragraphs of text describing Roth during the reading.
186. ROTH, Philip. Operation Shylock. NY: Simon & Schuster (1993). A hardcover advance reading copy of this winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year. Shot from proof sheets and bound in a quarter cloth binding with a paper label on the front cover and an unstamped spine. Fine, with a Compliments of the Publisher card laid in. A very unusual format for an advance copy.
187. ROTH, Philip. The Plot Against America. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. The advance reading copy of this "alternate history" novel, which imagines a pro-Nazi Charles Lindbergh defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. Read: covers splayed, corner crease to front cover; very good in wrappers.
188. ROTH, Philip. Novels and Stories. (NY): Library of America (2005-2006). The advance reading copies (marked "advanced uncorrected proofs") of the first three volumes of the projected eight-volume edition of Roth's collected works. The first volume (1959-1962) collects Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories and Letting Go. Short tear to upper front spine fold; near fine in wrappers with publicity sheets laid in. The second volume (1967-1972) collects When She Was Good, Portnoy's Complaint, Our Gang, and The Breast. Small abrasion at crown; else fine in wrappers. The third volume (1973-1977) collects The Great American Novel, My Life as a Man and The Professor of Desire. Fine in wrappers with publicity sheet laid in. Only Roth, Eudora Welty, and Saul Bellow have had their complete works preserved by the Library of America during their lifetimes.
189. -. Same title, the third volume only. Fine in wrappers with publicity sheet laid in.