E-list # 121

Providence, Burning Deck, (1990). The limited edition: number 25 of 50 numbered copies signed by Walter Abish and by Cecile Abish, who provides the photographs. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914404] SOLD

(New York), New Directions, (1975). His second book of fiction, his first major collection of stories. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914402] $50

(London), (Latimer Press), (1969). Experimental prose poems by this novelist and playwright. Of a total edition of 1000 copies, of which 250 were in cloth, this is an out of series copy of the issue of 50 printed on Glastonbury antique laid paper and bound in buckram. Signed by the author. Fine without dust wrapper, as issued. [#022831] SOLD

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, (1967). A novel set in the Caribbean island of Nevis. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a very good dust jacket with several internally tape-strengthened edge tears. [#022271] $20

NY, Random House, (1995). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen], "in praise of his work." Ackerman won the Henry David Thoreau Prize in 2015 for excellence in nature writing; Matthiessen won the award in 2013. From the library of Peter Matthiessen. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#031787] SOLD

London, Hamish Hamilton, (1989). The first British edition, in a jacket price-clipped for Canada. Ackroyd's novel Chatterton was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, and his earlier novel Hawksmoor won the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction award. Inscribed by the author in London in 1996. Fine in a fine (price-clipped) dust jacket. [#022272] SOLD

(London), Macmillan, (2000). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912891] $40

NY, Knopf, 2004. Signed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915781] $35

(London), Macmillan, (2000). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912892] SOLD

NY, Hyperion, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914703] SOLD

(Seattle), (Audio Literature), (1996). The audio book of his second novel. Three cassette tapes; reading by Alexie. Fine, in a near fine cardstock box, signed by Alexie on attached label. [#912192] $35

London, Secker & Warburg, (1997). The first British edition of his second novel. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. Note: number line begins with "2;" the proof copy of the British edition does also. [#912193] SOLD

Hillsboro, Blue Heron, (1994). Alexie contributes "A Few Reservation Notes on Love and Hunger." Signed by Alexie. Fine in wrappers. [#912196] $35

Los Angeles, American Indian Studies Center, (1993). His third collection of poems and prose poems. Illustrations by Elizabeth Woody. Blurbs by Linda Hogan and Simon Ortiz. Only issued in wrappers, but in two slightly different sizes. This copy measures 7" x 10". Signed by the author. Spine-tanned, else fine. [#912197] SOLD

Brooklyn, Hanging Loose Press, (2000). Stories, poems, and prose poems. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912204] $50

(London), Minerva, (1996). The first British edition of his first novel. Published in paperback in the U.K. This copy is signed by the author. One small corner crease; else fine. [#912210] $35

Inchelium, Thunderwood Productions, 1995. The soundtrack, on CD. Readings by Alexie, with songs written by Alexie and Jim Boyd, who performs them. Still shrinkwrapped, and signed by Alexie on a label on the shrinkwrap. Fine. [#912209] $35

Detroit, Visible Ink, (1995). Signed by Alexie at his contribution, the poem "13/16." Also includes excerpts from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Subtle corner crease; else fine in wrappers. [#912212] SOLD

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1993). His first collection of stories to be published by a major trade publisher. Winner of a special citation for the PEN/Hemingway Award as well as the winner of the 1994 Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writers' Award. On the strength of this collection, Alexie was chosen as one of Granta magazine's 20 Best Young American Authors; he was also selected to The New Yorker 20. Stories from this collection were the basis of the film Smoke Signals, which won an award at the Sundance Festival, among many others. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with two photocopied reviews of the book laid in. [#912225] SOLD

London, Doubleday, (2006). The limited edition. One of 1000 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase. [#912239] $50

(Los Angeles), Smallfellow Press, (2001). A children's book, with illustrations by Jimmy Pickering. Inscribed by both Allen and Pickering. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#030434] SOLD

NY, Dutton, (1992). Advance excerpts from seven Dutton publications, including the first chapter from Bastard Out of Carolina by Allison. Signed by Allison at her publication. Fine in wrappers. [#915795] $35

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1973). Alsop's "sort of memoir" of his battle with leukemia. Inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen. Alsop died the following year. Edge-sunned; near fine in a very good dust jacket. [#031790] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1992). Inscribed by Alvarez to a well-known writer "with great admiration" in the month of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027522] SOLD

NY, St. Martin's, (1999). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912893] SOLD

San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989). Inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___. Here's to reading, writing and selling books! Love & Peace, Tina McElroy Ansa." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913517] $35

(Guatemala), Alfaguara/(Santillana), (2002). The first edition, only issued in wrappers, of this novel by a two-time winner of the Casa de las Americas award, and the co-writer of the screenplay of El Norte. Inscribed by the author in 2003. Fine. [#023353] $20

Brockport, BOA, 1981. Inscribed by the author. Near fine in a near fine, rubbed dust jacket. [#031794] SOLD

San Francisco, City Lights, (2010). The first American edition. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] and his wife. Fine in wrappers. [#031795] SOLD

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1993. A leatherbound limited edition. Signed by the author, with a special introduction for this edition. Fine. [#914733] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1996. A collection of literary profiles by one of the preeminent American men of letters of his generation. Inscribed by the author: "For Pat - with Merry Christmas and all my love/ Louis/ Dec 1996." A couple of pencil notations in the text by the recipient, otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. [#032738] SOLD

NY, Ungar, (1986). A critical-biographical introduction to Auchincloss's work, in the "Literature and Life: American Writers" series. Inscribed by Auchincloss: "For my dear friend, almost my oldest friend/ Pat - from Louis." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a bit of creasing at the spine base. [#032739] SOLD

NY, Henry Holt, (2007). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911297] $40

NY, Henry Holt, (2006). Signed by the author and dated the month prior to publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912245] SOLD

(NY), Viking, (2003). The author's second novel, about two World War II veterans, one black and one white. The author is African-American. Inscribed by Baker to another writer, whom Baker refers to as a "great American writer," in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027523] SOLD

NY, Penguin Press, 2004. A memoir of the author's journeys to Tibet, with an introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Laid in is an autograph note signed by the editor to Peter [Matthiessen]: "This book owes you a great debt -- thank you again for your forthright advice." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#031799] SOLD

(NY), HarperCollins, (1999). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912901] $35

(NY), HarperCollins, (2002). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912902] $35

NY, Crown, (1993). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912900] $35

(NY), HarperCollins, (2006). The publisher's limited edition. One of a specified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912904] $35

NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). His first book, which examines to great effect the minutiae of a few moments in the life of an ordinary office worker. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914734] SOLD

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen]. Near fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket. [#031800] SOLD

Athens, University of Georgia Press, (1986). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen], "trail blazer." With Matthiessen's markings in the introduction. Edge-foxed; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#031801] SOLD

Lewiston, Confluence Press, (2000). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] and his wife, "with many, many thanks." Matthiessen has provided a blurb on the front flap: "I found Tony and the Cows profoundly touching and sad and--on another level--disturbing and provocative...[It] sharpened my own thinking." Musty, else fine in a fine dust jacket but for a corner crease on the front flap (at Matthiessen's blurb). [#031802] SOLD

NY, Harper & Row, (1986). A collection of stories, whose venues range from New England to Latin America to Southeast Asia. Inscribed by Banks to author Nicholas Delbanco: "For Nick, news from the near past, with friendship, Russell." A bit of extra glue on the rear spine cloth; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#029283] SOLD

(NY), HarperCollins, (1999). Banks provides text for this book of photographs by Arturo Patten of residents of Patten, Maine. This is a review copy, with publicity sheet and photo of Banks and Patten laid in. Signed by Banks. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911321] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1981. A collection of related stories set in a New Hampshire trailer park. Signed by the author. Foredge foxing; near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911313] $40

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2001). A review copy of the first American edition. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with a promotional page laid in. [#911333] SOLD

NY, Doubleday, (1996). Her award-winning first book of prose, a memoir. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#016970] SOLD

(NY), Delacorte Press, (1989). Her second book. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914747] $35

NY, Norton, (1996). A collection of stories that was a surprise winner of the National Book Award. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914750] $50

NY, Pocket Books, (1993). Signed by the author. Upper corners tapped; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914749] $35

NY, Arbor House/Morrow, (1988). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] in the year of publication: "There is no chance nor accident/ all is meaning and design." Matthiessen has provided as dust jacket blurb. Top edge foxed; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#031803] SOLD

NY, Putnam, (1976). Inscribed by the author in 1978. Mottling to boards; spine crown sunned; very good in a good, edge-chipped dust jacket fragile at the front flap fold. [#026677] SOLD

(Englewood), (Westcliffe), (1993). Inscribed by Barron to Peter [Matthiessen]: "May your trail and mine cross again before long -- perhaps in the Rockies!" Near fine in a fine dust jacket. [#031804] SOLD

(Boulder), Rocky Mountain Writers Guild, (1980). A personal account of a doctor in Vietnam, with an introduction by General William Westmoreland, commander of the U.S. troops in Vietnam. An uncommon book, published by a small press and issued within a few years of the war' s end. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, and signed by the author. [#009827] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1991). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911343] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2006). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915833] $35

NY, Putnam, (1970). Fine in near fine dust jacket and inscribed. [#010426] SOLD

(St. Petersburg), Palace Editions, (2011). A bilingual (English and Russian) exhibition catalog. Inscribed by Bateman. Fine in pictorial boards. [#031814] $20

(NY), HarperCollins, (2002). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915863] $35

(NY), HarperFlamingo, (1999). Signed by the authorin the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915862] $35

(NY), HarperCollins, (2003). Signed by the author. Together with an advance reading excerpt, printing two stories. The excerpt is fine in stapled wrappers; the book is fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915864] SOLD

(St. Paul), Graywolf Press, (1997). The limited edition of this book of essays on fiction. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911354] SOLD

(n.p.), Midnight Paper Sales/Hungry Mind, 1997. A broadside, printed as Hungry Mind Number Twelve. One of 90 copies signed by the author. 11" x 15". Fine. [#911356] SOLD

NY, Norton, (1993). His highly praised second novel, which was reportedly inadvertently printed in an edition of only 1500 copies, rather than the 15,000 the publisher had intended. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911353] $35

NY, Doubleday, 1976. Her first book of stories. With this book and her simultaneously issued first novel, Chilly Scenes of Winter, Beattie instantly gained recognition as a voice of her generation -- survivors of the social and political turmoil of the 1960s who, by the time they turned 30, in the Seventies, were weary and jaded. Fine in a near fine, slightly spine-faded dust jacket. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. [#028884] SOLD

Worcester, Metacom Press, 1981. The first separate appearance of this short story, which first appeared in Antaeus. Of a total edition of 276 copies, this is number 211 of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. [#911363] SOLD

(Burton), Subterranean Press, (2000). No. 104 of 1000 copies, signed by Beaumont's son, Christopher. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#030452] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1975). Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] in the year of publication. Very good in a very good dust jacket. [#031820] SOLD

London, Bantam, (1996). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915873] $35

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1992. A leatherbound limited edition. Signed by the author, with a special introduction by him for this edition. Fine. [#914756] $35

Englewood, Pineapple Press, (1985). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915878] $45

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1990. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#912248] SOLD

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1989. The author's sixth book. Signed and additionally inscribed by the author. Fine in fine dust jacket. [#008462] SOLD

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1985. Bell's second novel, a semi-fantastic novel of urban decay involving spontaneous human combustion, among other things. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914764] $60

NY, Doubleday/Talese, (1994). His third book, first novel. Touted as "a cross between Barry Hannah and Cormac McCarthy." Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Laid in is an autograph postcard signed agreeing to sign the book. [#017720] SOLD

(London), Review, (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915884] $35

(NY), HarperCollins, (1999). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915892] $35

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1975). A novel set in midwestern America in the 1930s. Signed by the author. Slight spine lean; else fine in a very good dust jacket with a shallow stain at the lower front edge. [#022852] SOLD

Omaha, The Cummington Press, 1988. A small, fine press edition printed by Harry Duncan, comprising poetic transliterations of Eskimo songs first recorded by a Nordic explorer in the 1920s. Copy 27 of 292 numbered copies. Although not called for, this copy is signed by the author. Additionally inscribed by Berg on the title page with "fondest wishes" and signed "Steve." Modest foxing; near fine. [#028886] SOLD

Seattle, University of Washington Press, (1995). Inscribed by Bevis to fellow writer Steve [Krauzer]: "No lines here like 'going mano a mano with a horsefly' but it's all I could do. Thanks for your support." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027796] $20

Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, (1999). Inscribed by Bevis to fellow author Steve [Krauzer] with "thanks for all the help and fun." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027795] SOLD

Garden City, Doubleday, 1973. His first book, a collection of short fiction, by this writer who is married to author Bharati Mukherjee. Inscribed by Blaise. One light corner bump; else fine in a very good dust jacket. [#006265] $20

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1974). A novel of three Vietnam vets, and Leavenworth prison "graduates," who plan to rob an Army base payroll, mostly because of their disenchantment and disgust with the corruption and incompetence of their higher-ups. Inscribed by the author in June, 1974. Very good in a very good dust jacket. [#031187] SOLD

NY, Obolensky, (1961). The first novel by this erstwhile enfant terrible of the literary scene in the early 1960s. This received good critical reviews and was adapted for Broadway by Lillian Hellman under the title, My Mother, My Father and Me. Inscribed by the author in 1976, in part "Novel #2/ finally on the road." Fine in a very good dust jacket. [#007294] SOLD

London, Chatto & Windus, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913785] $35

NY, Random House, (2000). Her third book, second story collection. Inscribed by the author, "with great admiration & appreciation." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024278] $20

(NY), HarperCollins, (1993). Her first book, a collection of stories, two of which were included in The Best American Short Stories anthologies for 1991 and 1992. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine, mildly spine-sunned dust jacket. [#026203] SOLD

Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1999. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915926] $35

NY, Counterpoint, (2006). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915931] $35

(n.p.), Scrub Oak Press, 2009. Broadside, with words by Bowden and drawings by Alice Leora Briggs. Issued in an edition of 126 copies, this is letter J of 26 lettered copies signed by the author and the artist. Fine. [#027859] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1997). A first novel written from the point of view of a wolf, by a Montana author. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#016979] SOLD

(NY), Abrams, (1993). Text by Bowles and photographs by Brukoff. Inscribed by Brukoff to Peter Matthiessen. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#031827] SOLD

(London), (Cuckoo Press), (1997). A chapbook. Signed by the author. Fine in stapled self-wrappers. [#912948] SOLD

(NY), Viking, (1985). His second collection of stories. Signed by the author. Slight top edge foxing; else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911397] $40

(NY), Viking, (1993). An elaborate, satirical historical novel based on the life of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a turn-of-the century health crusader and inventor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes (along with "peanut butter...[and] some seventy-five other gastrically correct foods"). Basis for the film. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket with an "autographed copy" sticker on the front panel. [#027338] $20

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1993. The Franklin Library edition, and the true first edition of this elaborate, satirical historical novel based on the life of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a turn-of-the century health crusader and inventor of Kellogg's Corn Flakes (along with "peanut butter...[and] some seventy-five other gastrically correct foods"). Basis for the film. Signed by the author, with a special introduction by him for this edition. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine. [#911401] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1997). Inscribed by the author to Maria Matthiessen, wife of author Peter Matthiessen. Maria Matthiessen had been born in Tanzania; Peter Matthiessen provided a blurb for the dust jacket of this book. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with an 11" x 17" copy of a review of the book laid in. [#031828] SOLD

NY, Persea, (2010). Warmly inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen in 2012. Fine in wrappers. [#031830] SOLD