E-list # 140

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1989). An extended essay on the disease, updating her earlier volume Illness as Metaphor. This is the uncorrected proof copy. Fine in wrappers. [#004371] $20

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1967). The second novel by the National Book Award-winning writer who was also a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1990. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear and a small patch of lamination peeling. [#019345] SOLD

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 2000. The Franklin Library edition of her fourth novel. Winner of the National Book Award. Signed by the author. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine. [#913723] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1999). A professional collaboration between the longtime companions, with photographs by Leibovitz and text by Sontag. Inscribed separately by both Sontag and Leibovitz, "to Joyce." Sontag, a winner of the National Book Award for fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction; a MacArthur Fellow; and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Artes y des Lettres, among other honors, died in 2004. This joint project by two of the most respected figures in their respective fields is scarce signed by both. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a hint of edge wear and very mild damp rippling near the crown that is visible mostly on the verso. [#030042] SOLD

NY, Pocket Books, (1996). A paperback mystery anthology, edited and introduced by Turow. This copy is signed by Turow. Near fine in wrappers. [#917063] $35

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1987). His second book, first novel, a bestseller and probably the most talked about book of that year. Basis for the 1990 Alan Pakula movie with Harrison Ford. Corner crease to front flyleaf; else fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#024208] $70

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2002). Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#917061] SOLD

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1990). His third book, second novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024209] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1990). His third book, second courtroom thriller. Inscribed by the author, "with much gratitude." Small bump upper edge, else fine in a fine dust jacket. [#917057] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1996). A courtroom thriller by the author of Presumed Innocent and Burden of Proof. This is one of an unspecified number of copies signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Fine in a fine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. [#915648] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (2003). Signed by the author in the year of publication, and additionally inscribed by Turow, thanking the recipient for all his help. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#917058] SOLD

Franklin Center, Franklin Library, 1999. The Franklin Library limited edition. Signed by the author. Leatherbound, all edges gilt, with a silk ribbon marker bound in. Fine. [#916947] SOLD

NY, Covici Friede, (1934). The third book by the author of Miss Lonelyhearts and the classic Hollywood novel The Day of the Locust. This is West's sister's copy, with her ownership signature, "Laura Weinstein," on the front flyleaf. West dedicated this copy to his college friend, the comic writer S.J. Perelman, who married Laura in 1929; she was Perelman's co-writer on several screenplays, including Around the World in Eighty Days and two Marx Brothers films, among others; she would later be the dedicatee of West's The Day of the Locust. Nathanael West was born "Nathan Weinstein." Although his sister, Lorraine Weinstein, would later change her name to Laura West and then to Laura Perelman, this book and other of her brother's books that came out of S.J. Perelman's library (and are now in the Special Collections of Brown University) were signed as "Laura Weinstein." Modest foxing to boards, endpages and page edges; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket with a bit of sunning on and near the spine and a few very small edge chips. A much nicer than usual copy of this novel and a unique family association copy as well as being owned by the wife of the dedicatee; one of the best copies imaginable. In a custom clamshell case. [#032700] SOLD

London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. Nathanael West's copy of Huxley's collection of poetry, with West's holograph notes on five of the front and rear endpages. Approximately 250 words, mostly quotes of other writers -- Huxley, Gray, Shakespeare; some light, but most quite serious: "In matters of love it is absurd to stand on your dignity and claim your rights. Such experiences cannot be judged and calculated like a matter of business. One gives as much and as long as one can & one does not bargain. Take what is given to you." West concludes with: "The paths of glory lead but to the grave." The year this book was published, West published his first novel. Later in the 1930s, both West and Huxley were employed as Hollywood screenwriters. West died in 1940 at the age of 37. The provenance of this book leads from West to his brother-in-law, S.J. Perelman, to the writer and bookseller, George Sims, who recounts the circumstances of his purchasing books from Perelman in the early 1970s, presumably including this one. A photocopy of a note from Sims is laid in. Fading to spine, spotting to cloth, short tear to lower front joint; still very good, without dust jacket. Publisher's extra spine label tipped to rear free endpaper. A wonderful glimpse of West's musings and inner life. [#017974] SOLD

Garden City, Doubleday, 1952. The deluxe edition, and first illustrated edition, of Wouk's masterpiece of mutiny and cowardice aboard a U.S. Navy minesweeper in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. Signed by the author on a tipped-in leaf. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and basis for the compelling and memorable 1954 movie starring Humphrey Bogart, as well as a critically acclaimed remake in 1988 directed by Robert Altman. Near fine in a very good, edgeworn dust jacket with several internally-mended edge tears and a bit of peeling to the lamination. [#032586] SOLD