E-list # 140

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

NY, Knopf, 2004. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914405] SOLD

(NY), Tibor de Nagy Editions, 1970. One of 300 copies. This copy is inscribed by Abish in 1982. A bit edge-sunned; near fine in wrappers. [#914700] $285

(NY), New Directions, (1977). His third book, a collection of stories. Signed by the author. This is the simultaneous hardcover issue. Fine in a mildly edge-sunned, else fine dust jacket. [#914403] 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

Garden City, Doubleday, 1952. An early novel by one of the most prolific and influential science fiction authors of all time. Asimov is famous for the Foundation trilogy and I, Robot, among many others. This book lists only seven prior publications; by the time his career ended he had written over 300 books. Inscribed by the author on the half-title. Recipient's bookplate and address label front endpaper; small stain to foredge; some sunning to spine and bowing to boards. A very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. An early novel, uncommon signed. [#030680] SOLD

Woodstock, Overlook Press, (1988). A selection of Auster's poetry, from his small press publications of the 1970s. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911275] SOLD

(Barrytown), Station Hill, (1980). A small, early collection of poetry. One of 1000 copies, 43 of which were numbered and signed. This copy is unnumbered and unsigned. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#000979] SOLD

(Brewster), Parenthese, (1977). One of 750 copies of this early collection of poems, this copy inscribed by the author: "For ___ & ___ - Love, Paul." Very shallow upper corner crease; still fine in stapled wrappers and dust jacket. Illustrated by Norman Bluhm. [#911269] SOLD

(Brewster), Parenthese, (1977). The limited edition of this title, which had a total printing of 750 copies; this is number 6 of only 20 numbered copies signed by the author and the illustrator. Fine in stapled wrappers and dust jacket. One of the smallest limitations of an Auster work, and extremely scarce these days. [#911002] SOLD

London, Faber and Faber, (1990). Poems, previously collected in Disappearances, and essays, mostly taken from The Art of Hunger. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911277] SOLD

(NY), Viking, (1989). Inscribed by the author to fellow writer Nicholas Delbanco, "among the cigar fumes, with best good thoughts." Very slight splaying to boards, else fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association copy between two acclaimed writers and literary peers. [#029281] SOLD

London, Faber and Faber, (1994). The first British edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911282] $50

Los Angeles, Sun & Moon Press, (1992). A collection of eleven essays on literary subjects including Kafka, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, and others, written between 1970 and 1979. This is the limited edition of the expanded collection, issued a decade after the original. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911281] SOLD

NY, Henry Holt, (2002). The advance reading copy. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#911292] $40

NY, Sun, 1982. His first full-length work of prose, an experiment in autobiography. Signed by the author. Only published in wrappers. Trace rubbing, else fine. [#911273] SOLD

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

(Weston), Living Hand, (1974). His first book. Poetry, published as Living Hand 3, the third issue of the magazine that Auster founded and edited. Mild edge sunning and a couple of tiny spots on the rear cover; near fine in wrappers. [#911268] SOLD

(Berkeley), The Figures, (1976). The lettered limited edition of the second book, a collection of poetry, by the author of The New York Trilogy, among many other novels, poetry collections, essays, and screenplays. Published in an edition of 526 copies, this is Copy "R" of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Drenttel A2. Uncommon. Fine in wrappers. [#911001] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1964). An advance copy, in the form of comb-bound galleys, of the Nobel Prize winner's second National Book Award winner (of three). Signed by Bellow in 1968, with the comment "long time, no see" -- presumably an indication that, even at that early date, the proof was already extremely scarce. The text of this book was changed while the book was still in galleys, and approximately two dozen pages have new text pasted over the originals. There are also several hand corrections to both new and old pages, and a couple of marginal comments (e.g. "Moses Herzog as demented artist"). Even with the added pages of text and the corrections, variations still exist between this version and the final published text. 10" x 5-1/4" galleys, comb-bound in printed yellow cardstock covers; a bit handled and creased; very good. Scarce: we know of only two other copies of this proof surfacing over the years. A bibliographically significant copy of a key work by an American Nobel Prize winner. [#027540] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1975). His eighth novel, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the title published just before he received the Nobel Prize. Also nominated for the National Book Award. One of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf, done for Kroch's and Brentano's First Edition Circle. Fine in a fine dust jacket -- bright, unworn and unfaded. A poorly manufactured volume, which is perfectbound and uses cheap paper, making attractive copies of this title much scarcer than one would expect. [#911160] SOLD

NY, Morrow, (1987). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914774] SOLD

NY, Viking Press, (1968). Second printing of this collection of stories. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, spine-tanned dust jacket. [#021427] SOLD

(n.p.), Viking, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy, with textual variations between this and the published text. Hint of a crease to front cover; very near fine in wrappers. [#912261] SOLD

(n.p.), Viking, (2000). The uncorrected proof copy, with textual variations between this and the published text. Fine in wrappers. [#914780] SOLD

Washington, D.C., Library of Congress, 1963. The text of a lecture presented under the auspices of the Gertrude Clarke Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund. Signed by Bellow. Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon signed. [#911157] SOLD

Greenwich, Fawcett Crest, (1965). A review copy of the first Crest paperback edition. Faint sunning to the spine lettering, and age toning to page edges; near fine in wrappers . [#914767] $30

NY, Harper & Row, (1982). The Harper & Row limited edition, which follows the Franklin Library edition. One of 500 copies signed by the author. Fine in acetate dust jacket and near fine, slightly dusty slipcase with one corner push. [#029290] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1976). Bellow's first book of nonfiction, a personal account of the author's visit to Israel in 1975, published the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signed by the author. Flaps previously affixed to pastedowns, with glue stains on both the flaps and the endpages; about near fine in like dust jacket. [#021432] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1976). His first book of nonfiction, a personal account of his visit to Israel in 1975, published the year he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Signed by the author. Spotting to top stain, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#914768] SOLD

(London), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1964). John Fowles's copy of the first British edition of Bellow's Herzog, the Nobel Prize winner's second book (of three) to win the National Book Award. Fowles' bookplate front flyleaf. Foxing to page edges; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket. [#031334] SOLD

NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1989). Warmly inscribed by the author to another writer in the year of publication "with much love, much admiration and infinite thanks." Near fine, lacking the dust jacket. An excellent association copy. [#016976] SOLD

Berkeley, North Point, 1982. Bound galleys of this collection of stories that was published as a paperback original. 8-1/2" x 14", printed on rectos only. Velobound; very near fine. An uncommon format for a proof. [#022660] SOLD

San Francisco, North Point, 1984. The uncorrected proof copy of this novel by the author of The Stone Boy (made into a well-received film with Robert Duvall) and The Infinite Passion of Expectation, among others. Her story collection, Women in Their Beds, published in 1997, won the PEN Faulkner Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Reviewer's notes (Alan Cheuse's?) on rear blank. Near fine in wrappers and proof dust jacket. [#015474] $30

(NY), New American Library, (1966). Her fourth book, third novel. Berriault, long considered a "writer's writer," won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for her story collection, Women in Their Beds, in 1997, shortly before she died. Top stain faded, spine slant; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#016131] SOLD

NY, Tor, (1993). Inscribed by the author. Recipient's bookplate front flyleaf; fine in a near fine dust jacket. Together with the uncorrected proof copy, which is near fine in wrappers. [#030467] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1959. His most famous book, basis for the classic Hitchcock film, deemed the most thrilling film of all time by the American Film Institute ("100 Years, 100 Thrills," #1), and one of the top 100 horror novels according to Jones and Newman (Horror: 100 Best Books, #57). Pages browning as is usual with this title; else fine in a lightly rubbed, very near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. An attractive copy of this classic horror novel. [#027857] SOLD

NY/Avenel, Wings, (1993). Owner bookplate front flyleaf; fine in a fine dust jacket. [#030458] SOLD

NY, Simon and Schuster, 1960. Inscribed by the author to another writer: "From one cat victim to another! All the best, Robert Bloch." With the bookplate of horror writer Stanley Wiater on the front flyleaf. Toning to page edges; sunning to lower board edges. Very good in a very good dust jacket. A good association copy: Bloch is the author of the classic Psycho, among many other works and is a legend in the field; Wiater is a three-time winner of the Horror Writers Association's Bram Stoker Award. [#029292] SOLD

Los Angeles/Columbia, Underwood-Miller, 1987. The uncorrected proof copies, three volumes. Owner bookplate in each volume, a hint of sunning to the spines, else each is fine in wrappers. Price for the set. [#030459] SOLD

NY, Dial, (1957). Brodkey's first book, a collection of stories that had the literary world virtually on tenterhooks for the next three decades, eagerly awaiting his first novel, which wasn't published until 1991. Inscribed by the author "with great affection" in 1991. Faint offsetting to front flyleaf; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with light edge wear and a bit of rubbing to the folds but none of the spine-fading common to this title. An uncommon book signed, and a very nice copy. [#023165] $300

NY, Picador, (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913542] $30

NY, Picador, (1999). Inscribed by the author, who has added "I've told you a thousand times!" under the title. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913543] $35

Boston, Little Brown, (1951). Her first book, a collection of stories. Fine in a very good dust jacket with creasing on front cover and minor edgewear. [#005666] $20

NY, Random House, 1998. An advance copy in the form of a bound photocopied typescript. 467 pages, double-spaced and double-sided, with the title header "Orno & Marshall" and the date header "11/4/97," and significant textual variations between this and the published text. Sent by a Random House editor to Peter Matthiessen, hoping for a publicity comment. An additional handwritten letter is laid in, from John [Sterling?] to Matthiessen's wife, expressing happiness that the Matthiessens will be coming to Sun Valley [likely the Writers Conference]: "It will be a social zoo, of course, but we will have one another (and Mark Salzman's humor) as comfort." Tapebound, with an acetate cover; near fine. An early -- and at this point possibly unique -- version of the second novel by Canin, with distinguished provenance. [#032272] SOLD

[Boston], (Houghton Mifflin), (n.d.)[1987-1988]. An advance offprint of one story from Canin's first book, Emperor of the Air, which won a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. [#911416] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1969). The uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Several penciled notes by a reviewer, and corresponding page corners turned. Near fine in wrappers. [#031228] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1969). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#031227] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1974). The uncorrected proof copy. Inscribed by the author. Fine in tall wrappers. [#031233] SOLD

NY, New York University Press, (1998). The uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers, with promotional sheet laid in. [#031248] $20

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1971). The uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Tall, comb-bound galley sheets. Edge-tanned, else fine. [#031230] $115

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1971). Inscribed by the author: "For ___/ with affection/ (this is my favorite book)." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#031229] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1967). A review copy. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket, with review slip laid in. [#031226] SOLD

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1964). Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with only mild tanning to the spine. [#031223] SOLD

NY, Harper Row, (1967). Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#031225] SOLD

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1973). The uncorrected proof copy. Signed by the author. Near fine in tall wrappers. With a "Special Note" from the publisher laid in explaining that the proof lacks many of the design features of the published text, which took the form of a literary quarterly. [#031231] SOLD

(London), Orion, (2005). A limited edition advance reading copy, one of only 120 numbered copies. Given that the first trade printings of this novel in the U.S. and the U.K. were likely huge, this is doubtless the scarcest issue of this novel. Fine in wrappers. [#914445] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1988). A review copy of her first novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket, with review slip and promotional sheet laid in. [#913903] $30

NY, Knopf, 1993. The author's highly praised second novel, after the Kafka Prize-winning Labrador. This copy has been inscribed by the author to the novelist Margaret Atwood, whom she calls "inspiration and mentor," in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A nice association copy. [#008079] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, (1999). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#913905] $35

NY, Morrow, 1970. His fourth novel. Inscribed by Delbanco to George [Garrett]: "with admiration, in friendship, fear & laughter," and with a small self-caricature. A nice association copy, and a revealing inscription that reflects the esteem in which Garrett was held by a generation of writers. Slight fading to edges of endpages, else fine in a near fine dust jacket with a crease to the rear flap. [#027589] SOLD

March 1, 1987. 5-1/2" x 8". A short note to fellow writer Jay Negeboren, lamenting a missed chance both to meet and to publish a piece in a literary magazine. Fine. [#012773] $20

NY, Pharos Books, (1992). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916070] $35

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1976). The hardcover issue of the Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Criminal Sentencing. Inscribed by the author. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#916064] $55

(n.p.), [Basic/Perseus], (2001). An advance reading excerpt, bound back-to-back with an excerpt of Christopher Hitchens' Letters to a Young Contrarian. Inscribed by Dershowitz. Fine in stapled wrappers. [#916080] $35

(NY), Basic Books, (1998). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916075] $35

(NY), Oxford University Press, 2001. Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916079] $55

Chicago, Contemporary Books, (1988). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916068] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1994). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916072] SOLD

NY, Warner, (1994). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916071] SOLD

(Hoboken), John Wiley, (2003). Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916084] $45

(NY), Warner, (2000). Inscribed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916078] SOLD

NY, Random House, (2000). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911501] $35

NY, Random House, (1984). A collection of six stories and a novella, his first book of short fiction. Signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a slight tap to the crown. [#911494] $35

NY, Random House, (1984). The limited edition of this collection of six stories and a novella, his first book of short fiction. One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in a very near fine slipcase with a few shallow scratches at one corner. [#911493] $60

NY, Random House, (1980). His fifth novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911492] $30

NY, Random House, (1975). His fourth book, a historical novel of America at the beginning of the twentieth century, peopled with such characters as Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J.P. Morgan, Theodore Dreiser and others. Winner of the first National Book Critics Circle Award to be given and the basis for a highly successful film. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911487] SOLD

London, Peters Fraser and Dunlop, 1990. Stoppard's "Revised First Draft" screenplay for the film based on Doctorow's novel, released in theaters in 1991, directed by Robert Benton and starring Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis, Loren Dean, and Nicole Kidman. Included is a Paramount Pictures internal memo from the year before, summarizing the novel and weighing the challenges of bringing it to the screen, and concluding, "Despite the difficulties here, if a way can be found to bring Billy's journey to the screen with even some of its force and vision intact, this could make a compelling, classy, big film." Paramount, however, ultimately passed on the idea: the film was released, with a Stoppard screenplay, by Touchstone Pictures. The memo is stapled once and folded once; near fine, laid into the screenplay, which is bradbound in plain blue cardstock covers with a small abrasion on the front and a wrinkled corner on the back; near fine. The title is written on the spine and foredge. An interesting look at Hollywood's take on a classic literary novel, and a look at an early version of the film: difficulties in adapting the material to the screen -- as suggested in the Paramount memo -- led to changes in the storyline that caused Doctorow to distance himself from the film, and presumably contributed to the film's relatively poor critical reception and commercial success. Uncommon. [#032280] SOLD

NY, St. Martin's, (1989). Graphic novel. Stamp of another author inside the front cover. Fine in wrappers. [#030561] SOLD

NY, IBooks, (2003). First printing stated. Inscribed by the author. Recipient's stamp inside the front cover; fine in wrappers. [#030562] SOLD

1981. An airmail note, written from Oxford, declining an engagement on the grounds that he will be out of the country. Ellmann, one of the leading literary critics of his time, was a Joyce scholar; the recipient of the note directed a Bloomsday festival on Martha's Vineyard for over 35 years, among other Joyce-related activities. Jagged marginal tears from opening, else near fine. [#032644] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1999. His first book, a collection of stories that earned extraordinary praise. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916163] $30

(NY), Akashic, (2012). Feiffer contributes a six-page graphic story to this collection of short noir fiction set on Long Island. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] on his birthday in 2012. Fine in wrappers. [#032472] SOLD

London, Collins, (1961). The first British edition of this collection of cartoons by the Pulitzer Prize-winning satirist. Inscribed by the author to a close friend and writer: "To P____/ several more shrunken heads for your collection -- Best -- Jules & Judy." Judy was Feiffer's first wife. Musty; very good in a very good dust jacket with a bit of fading and a few edge tears. A nice association copy. [#032471] SOLD

(NY), Distributed Art Publishers, (2001). The limited edition of this collection of original writings inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell and edited by Foer, who also contributes both a chapter and the introduction. Precedes the publication of his first novel by a year. Number 41 of 225 numbered copies, of a total edition of 300. Signed by Foer and all contributing authors, including Barry Lopez, Rick Moody, Howard Norman, Diane Ackerman, Siri Hustvedt, Lydia Davis, Robert Coover, Bradford Morrow, Joyce Carol Oates, Paul West, Joanna Scott and others. An elaborate and attractive production: each piece of writing in the book is preceded by a tipped-in color photograph of one of Cornell's works, and the sheets signed by the authors are bound in opposite them. Fine in a fine slipcase. [#912505] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2002. The advance reading copy of his first novel, one of the most highly praised literary debuts of the year -- named Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times and winner of the Guardian First Book Prize, among other literary awards. A film adaptation, done by Liev Schreiber, won the Laterna Magica Prize at the 2005 Venice Film Festival. Signed by the author. In the first issue, red and cream wrappers. Slight splaying to front cover; near fine. [#029309] SOLD

(London), Hamish Hamilton, (2005). The advance reading copy of the British edition, printed from sheets of the American advance edition, with British covers. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#912516] SOLD

(London), (Hamish Hamilton), (2005). A two-page profile of Foer and his book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, in the British publisher's annual magazine. Signed by Foer. Fine in wrappers. [#912518] $50

Heerlen, Uitgererij, (1980). A bilingual edition (English/Dutch), with translation by Simon Vinkenoog. One of 1000 copies, of which 100 numbered copies were signed by the author and the translator; this copy is unnumbered but is signed by Ginsberg in 1981. Plutonian Ode was privately printed in 1978; the City Lights edition was published in 1982. Mild edge rubbing and slight splaying to the front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers. [#031688] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1983). Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916215] SOLD

(NY), Dial, (2006). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915029] $35

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. [#016252] $100

(Pittsburgh), University of Pittsburgh Press, (1979). Essays spanning nearly thirty years. One of his less common books, having been published by a university press that probably did a small first printing, by trade publisher standards, and geared most of its sales toward the library market. Fine in a slightly rubbed, near fine dust jacket. [#016261] $20

NY, Macmillan, (1957). Near fine in a spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket; about near fine. [#016247] $20

(London), Deutsch, (1960). The first British edition. The introductory blurb has been changed for this edition. Offsetting to endpages and a bit of edge-sunning to cloth; near fine in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket with a small, internally tape-mended chip at the base of the spine affecting the publisher's name. [#016251] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of the well-received memoir of the author of Catch-22, Something Happened, and others. This is the first state, in plain wrappers. Fine. [#009325] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, 1952. Later printing of this play by Hellman. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen]: "For Peter, on his birthday, with affection, respect & other nice things/ Lillian/ 1963." Near fine in a good dust jacket. [#032480] SOLD

(NY), Viking, (1996). Signed by Helprin. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#917050] $35

London, Jonathan Cape, (1980). The uncorrected proof copy of this science fiction novel by the author of Turtle Diary and the fantasy classic The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin Boaz. Chosen as one of David Pringle's 100 best science fiction novels. This was John Fowles' copy, with his blindstamp on the half title. Spine-faded; first 50 pages or so loose from cracked glue, from reading; very good in wrappers. Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award and nominated for a Nebula Award. A notable copy of a major science fiction novel. [#029662] SOLD

[1976]. A 6-page ribbon-copy typescript (here untitled) of a story about his 22-year friendship with "Lucky Nellie," a mythical sea creature with parallels to the Loch Ness Monster, and their shared tales of lives as fugitives. With the name and address of the recipient typed as a header. Written by Hoffman, one of the leading activists of the 1960s counterculture, while he was living underground, having jumped bail after his conviction on drug charges. Unsigned, but beginning, "Hi, this is Abbie...." Published in Oui magazine in December 1976 as "Loch Ness Nellie Calls on Me: Two Fugitives Issue a Communique, a fable by Abbie Hoffman," and later, with textual variations, in Square Dancing in the Ice Age, a collection of his underground writings, as "In Search of Loch Ness Nellie." Stapled in the upper left hand corner, final page detached. "File: Abbie Hoffman" written in pencil in the upper margin. Near fine. Manuscript material by Hoffman is uncommon. [#032289] SOLD