E-list # 99

NY, Viking, 1980. A collection of previously unpublished stories of suspense and horror, edited by Kirby McCauley. A landmark volume in the history of the Modern Horror genre, assembled as Stephen King was just becoming a bestselling author after five novels that would eventually be seen as classics but at the time had sold little and garnered limited serious critical attention. This anthology attempted to put the new horror writers, including King, into a context and tradition that was much broader than the genre, and more readily considered to be "literary." Thus, in addition to King and such upcoming young writers as T.E.D. Klein, Gene Wolfe and Ramsey Campbell, the collection includes such mainstream writers as Joyce Carol Oates, Davis Grubb and Isaac Bashevis Singer, and such well-established genre writers as Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon and Robert Bloch. This copy is signed or inscribed by fifteen writers, including King, Bloch, Richard Matheson, Joe Haldeman, Gahan Wilson, Campbell, Wolfe, Richard Christian Matheson, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, Manly Wade Wellman, Edward Bryant, Charles L. Grant, and the editor, Kirby McCauley. With the ownership signature of fellow horror writer Stanley Wiater, and with Wiater's Gahan Wilson-designed bookplate on the verso of the front flyleaf. Stephen King's contribution is "The Mist," a 130+ page novella that was nominated for a World Fantasy Award and a Locus Award. It was collected five years later in Skeleton Crew. Light ink stains throughout the first several pages of the introduction, not obscuring any text; near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light wear to the corners. A unique copy of a seminal collection that helped define the genre. [#032269] SOLD

(Los Angeles), (Black Sparrow), (1967). The first book of Bukowski's to be published by Black Sparrow Press, which had been started the year before by John Martin to publish Bukowski and other "literary outsiders." Martin is credited with encouraging Bukowski to give up his job at the Post Office in 1969 and become a full-time writer. This is copy No. 93 of 96 numbered copies, of a total edition of 99 copies, signed by Bukowski; one of the smallest limitations of a Bukowski title. The cover states "2 by Bukowski"; the title page states "Charles Bukowski/2 Poems." The poems are "Family, Family" and "A Little Atomic Bomb." Fine in saddle-stitched wrappers. An early rarity both for the author and for the press that became his primary publisher for the rest of his life. [#032270] SOLD

New Orleans, Loujon Press, 1963. The third issue of this influential small magazine, which began as a letterpress production in the early 1960s and published a virtual Who's Who of underground and avant garde writers, many of whom reached their first substantial readership via this magazine. This issue features Bukowski as "Outsider of the Year." Contributors include Bukowski, Kenneth Patchen, Gary Snyder, William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Robert Creeley, and many others. A near fine copy in printed wrappers. [#032271] SOLD

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

(Stone Harbor), Meadow Run Press, (1995). A fishing guide's account of six weeks he spent in the Marquesa Keys, west of Key West, isolated from civilization, fishing for tarpon and permit, and reflecting on fish, fishing, and the natural world. The first printing: one of 1500 copies. Fine in a fine slipcase, with promotional postcard laid in. With a letter from the publisher dated January 23, 1995, transmitting the book to author Peter Matthiessen on behalf of Cardenas. The book sold out prior to publication; this issue precedes the deluxe edition. [#032273] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1955. Her third book, which was a National Book Award finalist in 1956. Signed by the author. Carson's second book, The Sea Around Us, had won the National Book Award in 1952 and had sold a million copies and been translated into 18 languages. At the time of this publication, Carson had already won the John Burroughs Medal, the Gold Medal of the New York Zoological Society, the Henry Bryant Gold Medal of the Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and a special citation from the Limited Editions Club as one of ten living American authors whose works were most likely to become classics. All of this was long before she published her last, and most famous, book, Silent Spring. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Carson died soon after the publication of Silent Spring in 1962 and her signed books have become somewhat uncommon over the years. [#032335] SOLD

Porthenys, [Self-Published?], 1988. Copy #58 of 100. Inscribed by the author to Peter Matthiessen and with a typed letter signed laid in: "I found this one copy of this tiny book, and I thought to send it to you the night before our departure for the old world (well it's all old and new isn't it?). I hear that you had a similar experience to what these little poems speak out from..." Chaskey continues in the letter with more personal news. More than 100 words. Poet-farmer Chaskey was the longtime head of Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, in eastern Long Island, and is considered "the spiritual father of the community farming movement." His first full-length book, the influential This Common Ground, was published in 2005; this chapbook precedes that book by nearly two decades. Near fine in self-wrappers. [#032274] $150

NY, Scout Press, (2015). The advance reading copy of Clegg's first novel and the first book from Scout Press. Longlisted for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize. Fine in wrappers. Uncommon: we find no U.S. advance copy currently listed online, and one U.K. copy; printed proofs and galleys are tending to be much scarcer, and receive much more limited distribution, than was the case in years past -- and even then they were scarce relative to the published editions. [#032277] SOLD

Self-Published, [ca. 1980s]. A collection of 12 poems, velobound, in gold-stamped plastic covers, by a writer who was closely involved with the San Francisco Bay Area literary scene for decades. Herbert Gold was one of the many writers who made his home in the Bay Area during that time, and this collection includes one poem titled after each of Gold's books of fiction up until 1980 (with one book un-poemed). Near fine. Unmarked, but from the library of Peter Matthiessen. Unusual, highly uncommon artifact of one of the great literary centers of postwar America. [#032278] SOLD

Self-Published, [ca. 1980s]. A collection of 14 poems, each poem titled with Connell's book titles, "selected and edited by Ruth Costello," although no other author is given. With a foreword by novelist Anne Lamott, the adoptive daughter of one of Costello's close friends, Mary Turnbull, a "literary champion and patron of the arts," and later a longtime bookstore owner in Marin County. Unmarked, but from the library of Peter Matthiessen. Near fine. Laid in is a printout of a 1985 Costello poem, "For Lama Anagarika Govinda," with a note in Matthiessen's hand on the verso. [#032279] 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

(n.p.), Tangram, (2013). A collection of seven-syllable poems. One of 200 copies in saddle-stitched self-wrappers. Dodge is a novelist and poet, and author of Fup, Not Fade Away, and Stone Junction, among others. Small spot to rear cover, else fine. Laid is to this copy is a letter from the publisher, Jerry Reddan, to Peter [Matthiessen] transmitting the copy and saying that Dodge's health and teaching commitments had delayed the title for about 7 years. Uncommon. [#032281] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 2015. The advance reading copy of Hallberg's 900+ page novel of 1970s New York: his first novel, which brought the author a nearly $2 million dollar advance and saw the film rights sold prior to publication. The advance copy has a letter from the publisher bound in dated March 2015; the book was published in October 2015, and received wide critical praise. The advance reading copy is scarce. Fine in self-wrappers. [#032282] SOLD

(n.p.), Sumac Press, [ca. 1971]. Broadside poem, 6" x 9", memorializing Yesenin, and dedicated "to D.G.," Harrison's co-founder of Sumac, Dan Gerber. This is the first poem in Harrison's collection Letters to Yesenin. One of 33 copies only according to Harrison, although Gerber has put the number between 80 and 100 copies; still, one of the rarest Harrison "A" items. Unmarked, but from the library of Peter Matthiessen, a longtime friend of Harrison. And together with Dan Gerber's own Sumac Press broadside, Sources. The Gerber broadside, also 6" x 9", has a little edge-foxing, otherwise both items are fine. [#032283] SOLD

(NY), Delacorte, [1979]. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of the three novellas Legends of the Fall, Revenge, and The Man Who Gave Up His Name. The title novella is the basis for the well-received film. This is the second issue proof in red wrappers; there were reportedly about ten copies of the first issue proof, in tape-bound white wrappers. Unmarked, but from the library of Peter Matthiessen. Spine-sunned; near fine in wrappers. A scarce proof, even as the second issue. [#032284] SOLD

NY, Grove, (2015). The advance reading copy (marked "Uncorrected Proof") of his follow-up to The Great Leader: a Detective Sunderson novel, a highly praised comic send-up of the detective novel, the first such genre fiction in Harrison's long and prolific writing career. Fine in wrappers, and uncommon. [#032285] SOLD

Mount Morris, Woman's World Publishing, 1935. The first published work by the author of Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and The Price of Salt, her only openly lesbian novel and the basis for the 2015 film Carol. "Girl Campers" is a series of eight letters written by Highsmith to her mother and step-father over the course of a three-week stay at summer camp, when the author was twelve (published at age 14). Good content at a young age, including her delight in suspense ("The bus that was to take us to camp from the boat was late. We waited two hours and finally got a man to take us who drove like a maniac. We were all screaming bloody murder and singing songs"); pre-lesbian camp crushes ("There is a girl here named Janet Armstrong I want you to meet. She lives in Tudor City and her father is a publisher. We think we have things in common, as she speaks two languages and I would like to"); the desire for stimulants ("I miss my coffee and tea at meals. But they think we shouldn't have coffee or tea. I told my counselor that you only gave me one cup of coffee in the morning for breakfast. It doesn't matter. We don't get any"); her early interest in the comics, a field where she would land her first job after college ("Don't forget to bring me the Sunday funny papers if you come. I do hope you can come"). Approximately 1500 words total on learning to swim, daytrips, camp politics, and commentary on her companions. Small address stamp to front cover; very near fine in stapled wrappers. A beautiful copy of this large, fragile item, few of which can have survived in such condition. [#032286] SOLD

NY, Random House, (2010). The advance reading copy of her second bestseller (after Seabiscuit) and her second book to be turned into a film. This one recounts the story of Louis Zamperini, Olympian (in Berlin) and then a P.O.W. in World War II. Casual examination reveals a couple small changes between this version and the finished version: the addition of a footnote on page 72, regarding "dive-bombing," and the reversal of the direction of the airplane on the spine. A couple of tiny creases to the covers; very near fine in wrappers. [#032287] SOLD

(n.p.), (n.p.), (n.d.). Bound typescript of what seems to be an unpublished novel, by a writer who specializes in murder mysteries set among the wealthy and whose mother, the actress Joan Alexander, was reportedly swindled out of $60 million by her financial adviser. Hitchcock's first novel was nominated for an Edgar Award. Her books chronicle the lives of the New York social elite, typically set in the Upper East Side and in the Hamptons on Long Island. Double-spaced, single-sided, 223 pages. Labeled "First Draft." Comb-bound in plain navy plastic covers. In an envelope address to Peter Matthiessen (but the return address is not Hitchcock's). Several penciled notations in the text in what appears to be Matthiessen's hand, confined to the first handful of pages; fine. [#032288] 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

[ca. 1976]. Photocopied typescript, reproducing copy-editor's corrections, of Hoffman's response to Timothy Leary's article about his encounter with Charles Manson in Folsom Prison for Oui magazine, in the August 1976 issue. Hoffman relies on his studies of psychology at Brandeis and the University of California, with, among others, Abraham Maslow, to discredit what was apparently Leary's take on the Manson murders, i.e., that brainwashing had played a large part. Hoffman also criticizes Leary for grandstanding -- something he himself was frequently accused of. The split between the two icons of the counterculture is especially noteworthy in light of their shared history: both were credited with being co-founders of the Youth International Party in the 1960s -- the Yippies -- and Leary testified on Hoffman's behalf in the Chicago Seven trial. Four pages. Not published, as best we can tell. "File: Abbie Hoffman" written in pencil at top. Corner stapled; near fine. Among the photocopied changes, the above title is crossed out. [#032290] SOLD

[ca. 1976]. A handwritten advertising pitch by Hoffman for Bundy Rent-a-Wreck on Pico Blvd in Los Angeles, which begins: "If you can keep up with O.J. Simpson or get your rocks off on that sanitized smile behind the airport lobby stand then maybe Hertz or Avis are your security wheels away from home...." A full legal page, plus a few lines on the verso, more than 300 words, signed by Hoffman. Folded, with staple holes in an upper corner and a bit of dust and creasing to the upper margin; very good. Simpson's campaign for Hertz began in 1975; Bundy Rent-a-Wreck is apparently still in business. Hoffman's humorous pitch belies his anti-commercial reputation, but his description of Bundy's business is rife with hippie/yippie values, promoting authenticity, quirkiness and, in the end, cars that run better if you talk to them. [#032291] SOLD

[ca. 1976]. A handwritten letter from Hoffman to the editor of Oui Magazine, bringing him up to speed on what has been and what will be submitted, wondering about how payment works, saying he's trying to work out a schedule to cover the inauguration [of President Carter], amid "all the security hassles," and mostly, submitting the caption of a sex-themed cartoon, which he emphatically states he does not want his name attached to (likely for the above-mentioned security reasons). Two other jokes by Hoffman are included here on a separate half-page of paper. The lot is unsigned, but the references within and the provenance all support Hoffman's authorship. Also included here is a letter to the same editor, Mark Zussman, from Hoffman's agent, from 1977, submitting Hoffman's completed piece on the inauguration (not present). The letter is fine, the half-page of jokes has some moderate staining and is very good. [#032292] SOLD

1977. A letter addressed to the editor of Oui Magazine, informing him that he'll be sending along an interview entitled "Confessions of a Gin Rummy Hustler," and that under no circumstances is it to be published using "my AH name," suggesting instead that it be published under the name "Ben Wallace," in order to avoid "a load of problems." Hoffman asks the editor for assignments, particularly European ones, as "I'd love to leave the country for a few months. I just got fired again." He says he wanted to get to Japan to cover the Save the Whales Rock Concert, but "the arrangements proved too costly," and suggests the possibility of an article on "Chicago - 10 years after," to appear in 1978 (ten years after the Chicago Seven trials, rising out of various charges related to protests at the 1968 Democratic Convention). More than 200 words, running a full legal page, with a few lines on the verso. His sign off reads, "Can you spare a buck for a cup of coffee?" Signed by Hoffman as "Howie," with a smiley face. Folded in fourths for mailing; minor edge wear; very good. Mailing envelope included. [#032293] SOLD

Undated. 7-page typescript -- photocopied? -- beginning, "It's only proper to begin a television column with a short word from our sponsor," with the remainder of the article being a diatribe against advertising ("Unfortunately Mrs. Robinson we do know what became of Joe DiMaggio") and unchecked consumerism. Humorous, angry critique of insidious advertising techniques and excessive television watching, and an endorsement of the recently published book, Subliminal Seduction, a purported expose of the advertising industry and its use of imagery to influence viewers below the level of conscious awareness. A characteristic Hoffman criticism of the status quo in bourgeois American society, of the sort that fueled his political writings and his celebrity standing in the counterculture. Signed (in type) with Hoffman's pen name, "B. Wallace." Holograph corrections in an unknown hand; marginal staining; folded in thirds; very good. Unpublished, as best we can tell. [#032294] SOLD

[ca. 1978-1982]. Undated, ca. 1978-1982. 21-page typescript of a section of Hoffman's 1982 book, Square Dancing in the Ice Age, representing about 14 pages of the published book. Seven pages here are photocopied or at least on heavier paper than the onionskin typescript, but most of those, as well as most of the original onionskin pages, have numerous corrections in Hoffman's hand and in another, unknown, hand. Most of these changes were made prior to publication, and still this version has textual differences from the published version. Large paperclip marks on the first page, otherwise very near fine. A substantial manuscript from one of the key counterculture figures of the 1960s. [#032295] SOLD

[NY], [Scribner], [1951]. An advance copy of Jones's first book, winner of the National Book Award and the basis for a film that won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture. 860 sheets, string-bound, printed on rectos only, and seemingly arbitrarily divided into three sections. Casual inspection reveals a couple slight textual differences from the published book. Together with a (secretarially) typed letter signed by Jones, dated in Paris in 1963, conveying a signed book (not included here) to a fan in Dublin, apologizing for the delay, "but I've been working hard." The sheets are fragile at the edges and have professional restoration to the first several pages, but are near fine and preserved in a custom folding chemise and slipcase; cover sheet has several faded numbers marked on it in pencil; the letter is fine, folded in fourths, and laid in. Included here for comparison to the sheets is an early printing of the book, in a dust jacket mentioning "the superb Columbia Pictures production." This is the only such proof copy we have seen of this title, one of the most famous novels of World War Two, one of the earliest winners of the National Book Award, and a selection of the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century. [#032296] SOLD

Boston, Twayne, (1981). One of the dedication copies of this critical study of Jones's fiction. Inscribed by Giles to Jones's widow, Gloria, and their children, Kaylie and Jamie: "In the hope that this reveals my respect and admiration for Jim and my affection for you." The book is dedicated to "Three Beautiful People: Wanda, Morgan, and Kaylie." Kaylie Jones is mentioned in Giles's Acknowledgments for her "rare kind of courage in talking about her father and taking me to places on the Island that evoked him because they had been special to him. She also took me to James Jones's grave." From the library of Peter Matthiessen; Jones and Matthiessen were friends, and lived nearby each other in eastern Long Island. Boards foxed; a very good copy, without dust jacket, presumably as issued. [#032297] SOLD

Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, (1987). The first book, a collection of poetry in the Wesleyan New Poets series, by the author of the acclaimed memoir The Liars' Club and its sequels, as well as The Art of Memoir. This collection precedes her first memoir by eight years. This is the hardcover issue. Inscribed by the author to the novelist and memoirist Jay Neugeboren in 1988: "-- with apologies for insults, memories of a lovely meal, & hopes for more." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with faint edge creasing to the rear panel. Uncommon in hardcover, especially signed and as an association copy. [#032298] SOLD

July, 1968. A long, warm autograph letter signed from Kennedy to Williams, written in the month following Robert Kennedy's assassination, and apparently replying to a letter written prior to that event, in which Williams had asked if he may dedicate a play to her, and apparently also asking if his being for Robert Kennedy might cost RFK more votes than it would gain him. Kennedy calms Williams on both counts. In part: "All your life you may dedicate to me whatever tiny scrap of paper or huge play you wish. It would be an honor -- and a gift that would always almost bring tears...You know that I will always think that anything you do is noble -- and my husband and brother-in-law thought that too." Signed, "I'll always be your friend. Love, Jackie." Just shy of 200 words, running two sides of one sheet of blue Kennedy stationery, with the Kennedy coat of arms embossed in white at the top. With a hand-addressed mailing envelope included, addressed to Williams in Key West, signed "Jacqueline Kennedy," (unfortunately in the corner under the postmark), with the hand-written return address of Hyannis Port on the verso. Several faint stains to both the letter and the envelope, not affecting legibility. A touching letter, revealing both the gracefulness for which she was well-known throughout her life, and also her literary sensibility as an admirer of Williams and his writing. Near fine, in an 11-1/2" x 9" double-sided frame. [#032299] SOLD

NY, Doubleday, (1995). A compilation of tributes to Kennedy in her role as an editor, by some of her writers, including Louis Auchincloss, George Plimpton, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and others. Laid in is a business card inscribed by the publisher, Nan Talese, to the wife of Peter Matthiessen, saying it was good to see them both. Also laid in is a printed card stating that "Doubleday would like you to have this special tribute honoring the publishing career of our beloved colleague and friend Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis." The Doubleday card is foxed; the book has a hint of foxing on the half-title but is still very near fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#032300] SOLD

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1976. The uncorrected proof copy of the revised second edition of his first book, here with a new introduction (titled "Afterward") by the author. Signed by Kosinski on the title page, and additionally inscribed by him on the first blank: "For ___ and ___ - ten years after,/ affectionately, Jerzy/ Feb 1976." Light bump to spine base, else fine in wrappers. His powerful -- and later controversial -- first novel, of the Holocaust. Part of the controversy around this book stemmed from Kosinski's originally implying that it was an autobiographical novel, and the experiences of the main character -- a gypsy child wandering around Eastern Europe during the war -- were based on his own experiences. After publication he refrained from making such claims publicly, but even in the new introduction here, ten years after the original publication, he strongly implies that his childhood experiences in the war were of the devastating variety that the book's protagonist underwent. The Painted Bird, despite all the controversy surrounding it, was named by Time magazine in 2005 as one of the top 100 novels from 1923-2005. Kosinski, hounded by controversy and scandal, committed suicide in 1991 at the age of 57. An uncommon proof, especially warmly inscribed. [#032301] SOLD

(Milwaukee), (Gunrunner Press), (1968). Poetry by the legendary figure of the Cleveland underground and counterculture, author of The North American Book of the Dead, among others. Levy was a writer and, with bookseller Jim Lowell of the Asphodel Bookshop, a publisher and distributor of his own and others' writings. An outspoken anti-establishment writer, he committed suicide at the age of 26. This is the uncommon first edition of this title, one of 300 copies printed, although it appears scarcer than that: most of Levy's books were printed in Cleveland, and this one seems to have not survived in the quantities that some of the others, even with smaller limitations, did. It was later reprinted in 1974 and again in 1988 and in a bilingual French-English edition in 2011, with all of the later editions being more readily available than this first edition. Mild edge sunning, else fine in stapled wrappers. [#032302] SOLD

Chicago, Nelson-Hall, (1976). A compilation of scientific articles on marijuana and its effects, drawn from a wide range of scientific journals. The opening chapter prints a portion of French poet Charles Baudelaire's 1860 essay, "Les Paradis Artificiels," about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish; the rest of the contributors are 20th century scientists. A now-uncommon volume that gives a sense of how much scientific research lay behind the movement in the past few years toward legalizing medical marijuana and decriminalizing recreational use of the drug. Fine in a rubbed, near fine dust jacket. [#032303] SOLD

Calcutta, H.C. Gangooly, (1912). Small volume comprising several essays on medicinal and psychoactive plants by an Indian physician. A printed label on the half title reads: "Graciously accepted & Read with interest by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales." Sections on hemp, ganja, hasheesh, and more, all first appearing in Indian Agriculturist. Green cloth binding has some wear and fraying, especially at the extremities; a very good copy and apparently uncommon: OCLC lists only one copy held, that being at the British Library. [#032305] SOLD

NY, Academic Press, (1973). An academic study of marijuana and its effects, and an attempt to bring study of the drug up to date at a time when its use was becoming widespread in Western societies. Exhaustive chemical analysis, and a survey of the clinical studies of the drug's effects on humans and animals, with questions about its long-term effects. Mottling to cloth; very good in a very good dust jacket. [#032306] SOLD

Berkeley, Quick American Publishing & And/Or Press, (1984). How to make "Hi-Brew" beer, "as told to Ed Rosenthal by U.B." General instructions for making beer with marijuana, and several variant recipes, along with a brewer's log. Fine in wrappers, with labels and stickers intact. OCLC locates only 11 copies, including two entries each for the Drug Enforcement Administration Library and the U.S. Patent Office, and one library in Amsterdam, Netherlands. In the U.S. the only academic libraries that hold copies are at Harvard, the Boston Public Library, and two libraries in the University of California system. [#032307] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1978). Matthiessen's National Book Award-winning volume, recounting a trip to the Himalayas with naturalist George Schaller in the hopes both of encountering a snow leopard in the wild and of coming to terms with his wife's recent death from cancer. This copy has an autograph note signed by Matthiessen and an autograph note signed by William Styron laid in, each to Pat Dickey (sister-in-law of James Dickey), and the book is signed by Matthiessen, for Dickey, on a bookplate. In the autograph note signed from Matthiessen to Dickey (1978), Matthiessen thanks Dickey for her kind letter and states he's not sure what she means by a signed bookplate -- "will the enclosed do? (I took it from my son's desk)." The bookplate referenced (now signed and affixed to the title page) pictures a galaxy in space. Matthiessen's mailing envelope is included. In the 1980 autograph note signed from Styron to Dickey, Styron says he would be delighted to help her with her paper on Matthiessen and offers his telephone number in lieu of a lengthy correspondence. Apparently Styron also presented Dickey with a copy of D. Nichols' Matthiessen bibliography, for which Styron wrote the introduction, as Dickey responds with a full-page letter (included here) from Dickey to Styron, thanking him and confessing to being "committed to finding everything [Matthiessen] has written and reading it," and further confessing to loving Matthiessen, though they have never met or spoken: "I am well-traveled having read him, though I have been nowhere. His courage, capacity for hardship to consume the biosphere and give it back to the world is beyond my skill as a writer to laud." The book is foxed on the edges of the text block; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket, creased on the front flap. An interesting matrix of literary figures, in a book that effectively conveys the wide range of Peter Matthiessen's impact as a writer. [#032308] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1998). McPhee's Pulitzer Prize-winning geological history of North America. A massive volume, and a 20+ year project, it comprises four books published during those years -- Basin and Range, In Suspect Terrain, Rising From the Plains and Assembling California -- plus a new piece entitled Crossing the Craton. In addition, McPhee wrote "A Narrative Table of Contents" for this volume, in which he explained the project. This copy is signed by the author. McPhee has long been considered one of our finest writers of narrative nonfiction on any subject, but geology has come to be his signature theme, and this collection is clearly his magnum opus, the longest sustained exploration of any subject that he has undertaken, and probably the longest sustained writing on geology, earth's history and geological time ever attempted for a lay audience. Even with the lucidity of McPhee's prose, it is a difficult subject to wrap the mind around because of the enormous spans of time involved, but occasionally in McPhee's hands the history and evolution of the earth takes on the some of the character of a symphony -- constantly changing but with underlying and ongoing themes and characteristics, and an extraordinary harmoniousness. A remarkable accomplishment, which vindicates the notion -- put forth by McPhee and other "New Journalists" in the 1960s -- that nonfiction could be elevated to the stature of Literature, with elegant form and structure, and soaring and transcendent meaning. In addition to McPhee's signature opposite the title page, this copy has, on the half title, the signature of 1987 Nobel Prize winning chemist Donald J. Cram (here "D.J. Cram"), who was a professor at UCLA for more than three decades (and an avid surfer); Cram would have been 79 at the time of this volume's publication. A bit of shelf wear to the lower edges of the cloth; slight spine lean; a very near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. One of McPhee's least common books to find signed, an award winner, and of particularly notable and interesting provenance. [#032309] SOLD

(Chicago), (Time), (1963). A five-page article by McPhee on Richard Burton, with a very amusing printed "Letter from the Publisher" about McPhee and Burton and Elizabeth Taylor and the dynamics of the interview, including a shot of McPhee in Burton's hometown of Pontrhydyfen. McPhee worked for Time magazine before moving to The New Yorker, and prior to his first book. He perfected the art of the long-form interview and then applied it to a wide variety of individuals in a wide range of fields. This precursor piece gives good evidence that the process was well underway already, two years before his first book. Address label and rubbing to covers; very good in stapled wrappers. [#032310] SOLD

1977. Original art by the self-taught Blackfoot artist Melvin Tailfeathers, purchased directly from the artist by a couple who lived in Browning, Montana, on the Blackfoot Reservation, in the 1970s. Tailfeathers, in addition to being a cartoonist for the Glacier Reporter, was the illustrator of eight volumes of the 140 stories in the Indian Reading Series that was published by the Northwest Regional Educational Library, with funding from the National Institute of Education, from 1972-1983. The images offered here are, like his illustrations, of traditional Blackfoot scenes, but rendered with a seriousness that his children's book illustrations are at some pains to soften, and done without any of the cartoonist's style that helped make the book illustrations as welcoming and accessible as they are. A very detailed ink drawing of a Native American woman sitting on the ground slicing meat for strips of jerky after scraping a skin that is depicted being stretched on a drying frame outside of two tipis, and set against a mountainous background. 12" x 8", matted and framed to 17-1/2" x 14". Signed by Tailfeathers and dated 1977. Fine. [#032311] SOLD

1977. Original art by the self-taught Blackfoot artist Melvin Tailfeathers, purchased directly from the artist by a couple who lived in Browning, Montana, on the Blackfoot Reservation, in the 1970s. An ink drawing of a Native American man on horseback and holding a spear, as though on lookout. Small butte in the background. 10-1/2" x 8-1/2", matted and framed to 17-1/2" x 14". Signed by Tailfeathers and dated 1977. Fine. [#032336] SOLD

1977. Original art by the self-taught Blackfoot artist Melvin Tailfeathers, purchased directly from the artist by a couple who lived in Browning, Montana, on the Blackfoot Reservation, in the 1970s. A pencil, and possibly charcoal, rendering of a Native American man, with spear, seated on a hill next to his horse. Matted in an oval 13" wide and framed to 18" x 15". Signed by Tailfeathers. Any date has been obscured by the matting, but ca. 1977. The artwork is fine; the frame has several small nicks. [#032337] SOLD

(various), (various), (1956, 1968). In 1897, eight year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Sun, asking, in part, "Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?" The reply of Editor Francis P. Church read, in small part, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias...." Church's response became the most reprinted English language newspaper editorial in history. When Virginia O'Hanlon died, in 1971, friends formed a press to publish the editorial and its back story as a children's book; in 1974, the book became an Emmy Award-winning animated television special; and, in 2009, it became a CGI animated television special entitled simply, "Yes Virginia." The items offered here all predate the story's book and animation fame, and include the typescript of a 1956 television appearance by O'Hanlon, a Sun broadside of the editorial, and Two Christmas Classics, which is likely the editorial's first appearance in book form, in 1968. The lot is as follows: 1. The 3-page typescript of a 1956 segment of the television show The Children's Hour, hosted by Ed Herlihy, with guest appearances in this episode by Santa Claus and by Virginia O'Hanlon, who would have been in her late 60s. In it, Santa asks Herlihy if there really is a Virginia, and Herlihy introduces "Dr. Laura Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas," using her married name (kept after her divorce), acknowledging her doctorate (from her career as an educator), and revealing that "Virginia" was actually her middle name. Herlihy then recounts the story of the editorial, and O'Hanlon is given unscripted time to talk about events since, followed by her own reading of Francis P. Church's famous response to her younger self. These pages are stapled to: 2. An undated New York World Telegram/The Sun broadside of the full editorial, entitled "Is There a Santa Claus?," and adding a paragraph at the bottom on "How Editorial Happened to Be Written." 3. A cover letter is included, written on New York World Telegram letterhead and dated October 21, 1956, from a former employee of the paper to "Miss Clements" (Alice Clements, producer of The Children's Hour), saying that he is acquainted with O'Hanlon and feels he can convince her to appear on the show, adding, "Each and every year during the month of December I was shocked by the nation-wide demand for reprints of the Virginia O'Hanlon story." These three items are folded in half, and the corner staple is rusted; they are otherwise near fine. 4. Together with the chapbook Two Christmas Classics, issued by Columbia University Press, ca. 1968, and printing both Church's editorial and Clement Clarke Moore's A Visit from Saint Nicholas ("Twas the night before Christmas") as a holiday keepsake, as both Church and Moore were graduates of Columbia College. (Coincidentally, O'Hanlon received her Masters Degree from Columbia.) The chapbook also prints brief, anonymous, introductions to each. Approximately 4-3/4" x 6-1/2", edge-sunning to the front cover; near fine in stapled wrappers, with a holiday greeting laid in that is signed by Carl B. Hansen, of Columbia University Press. A relatively early grouping of items in the enduring legacy of one child's curiosity and Church's timeless response embodying the meaning of Christmas. [#032276] $2,000

Burbank, Warner Brothers, (2013). The "Final Shooting Script" of the screenplay of the first of Pynchon's novels to be filmed. Written and directed by Anderson. Perfectbound, produced for members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. The screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award, and won a number of other awards for the best adaptation. This script was never offered publicly. Fine. Scarce. [#032312] SOLD

(n.p.), New Rivers Press, (1968). The first book published by New Rivers Press, a collection of poetry that "came out of the death and rebirth in revolutionary Cuba" in 1967, where Randall visited with some 80 other poets in January-February in 1967, on the centenary of the birth of Ruben Dario. Inscribed by Randall to the British playwright Arnold Wesker (who staged his play "The Four Seasons" in Cuba in 1968). Together with the carbon typescript of the book, with Randall's name and Mexican address typed on the cover sheet, and mentioning a planned deluxe edition to be published by C.W. Truesdale's press in Nyack and a popular edition by Guerilla Press; as it turned out, Truesdale did the popular edition, this one, and there was no other. Also together with the carbon typescript of a one-paragraph explication by Randall on the book's creation, dated December, 1967. The explication appears in heavily truncated form in the book. This page is heavily edge-worn, and like the typescript is on thin air mail paper, folded in half and edge-creased. The latter is stapled in the upper left corner. The book has a small amount of light dampstaining surrounding the lower spine; very good in stapled wrappers. Randall, in addition to being a poet, co-founded El Corno Emplumado, a bilingual literary journal in Mexico which featured new writing from the Americas and elsewhere, until it was forced to close by the Mexican government after her outspoken support of the Mexican student movement in 1968, and her criticism of the Mexican government's violent and deadly response to it. Randall moved to Cuba for a number of years after this book was published; on her return to the U.S. she was deported under a McCarthy-era law for her political views; she won her court case five years later, with the help and support of a large segment of the literary community. [#032313] SOLD

(n.p.), Minnesota Review, [ca. 1968]. Excised pages [pp. 125-130], printing Randall's The Black, Market from The Minnesota Review. Inscribed by Randall to the British playwright Arnold Wesker in 1968. Stapled in the upper left corner. Edge-stained, with insect damage. A good copy. [#032314] SOLD

1968-1970. El Corno Emplumado was a bilingual quarterly founded in 1962 and devoted to publishing the best new work of Latin and North America, as well as worthy new work from elsewhere in the world, and including authors such as Ginsberg, Hesse, Patchen, Paz, Creeley, Rulfo, Kelly, etc. This correspondence is between Randall, co-founder of El Corno Emplumado, and the British dramatist Arnold Wesker. The correspondence begins in May, 1968, with Wesker's retained copy of a letter to Randall stating his intent to send her $45: "consider it payment for all those magazines you've been sending me." Randall responds with a one-paragraph typed letter signed expressing gratitude and love in response to Wesker's unsolicited offer of help. This letter is typed on the verso of the double-page color illustration by Felipe Ehrenberg from Water I Slip into at Night. A second one-paragraph typed letter signed by Randall, dated May 27, 1968, thanks Wesker for his check and inquires how his extra eight weeks in Cuba went, along with the play's production. In October of the same year, Randall and co-editor Robert Cohen sent out a two-page solicitation of support for El Corno Emplumado, which had had its government subsidy withdrawn after they had printed an editorial supporting Mexico's 1968 Student Movement. That solicitation ["The growing repression in the United States, Latin America and throughout the world must be confronted by independents who are willing and able to publish the truth..."] is included here, in what looks to be carbon typescript, signed by both Randall and Cohen. With an autograph note signed by Randall on the second page: "Things pretty desperate here -- please help us if you can. Love, Margaret." This has been stapled to a retained reply from Wesker in which he informs Randall he is sending 25 British Pounds, with the request that five of that be spent on Mexican stamps for his son. A three-paragraph typed letter signed by Randall, dated October 29, 1968, thanks Wesker again for his generosity and speaks of her ongoing pregnancy, and the "wait for the inevitable strengthening of repression now the tourists have all gone home [from the 1968 Summer Olympics]," and the ongoing debt, "roughly $500," on "corno #28." Lastly, there is a 3-page photocopied piece entitled "Concerning the Suppression of El Corno Emplumado," in which Randall and Cohen recount the circumstances of the withdrawal of the magazine's subsidy, the surreptitious seizing by the government of Randall's Mexican passport, and the possible involvement of the CIA, with the motive of preventing Randall's and Cohen's planned move to Cuba. "The magazine has been suspended...LONG LIVE THE WORLD REVOLUTION!" Some edge-staining to the correspondence and much acidifying; overall in very good condition. A first-hand look at the demise of one of the groundbreaking, innovative literary journals of the 1960s, which published a virtual Who's Who of young, upcoming, sometimes radical poets and writers. [#032315] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). Harold Bloom's copy of the uncorrected proof copy of Roth's novel, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and Time magazine's Book of the Year; also voted one of the best works of American fiction in a quarter century in a New York Times Book Review survey. Bloom is perhaps most famous for his controversial book The Western Canon, which argued against "the Balkanization of literary studies" and presented an exhaustive list of what he considered to comprise the canon. Six Philip Roth books made it onto Bloom's list, including this title. With a typed note signed by Roth, from two years prior, laid in, in which Roth raves to Bloom about Douglas Hobbie's first novel, Boomfell. The note is folded, else fine. The proof has Bloom's notations on the front cover and summary page; handling apparent to covers; very good in wrappers. A good association copy between one of the leading novelists of his time and one of the leading critics of the day. [#032317] SOLD

Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Literary critic Harold Bloom's copy of the advance reading copy of Roth's "alternate history" novel, which imagines a pro-Nazi Charles Lindbergh defeating Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1940 presidential election. With Harold Bloom's signature. Age-toning to pages; near fine in wrappers. [#032316] SOLD

(n.p.), (n.p.), [ca. 1997]. Tapebound typescript of this Booker Prize-winning first novel. 248 pages, 8-1/2" x 11", bound in printed light green cardstock covers, and shot from word-processed sheets rather than typeset ones. No indication of publisher (which, in the U.S., was Random House). After the considerable success of this book in England, where it was reprinted numerous times, Random House decided to do a glossy advance reading copy in pictorial wrappers. Consequently, few copies of the standard proof were done. We are aware of another, "in-house" state of the advance copy, which, if we remember correctly, was also 8-1/2" x 11" tapebound sheets, but typeset and in blue covers and listing the publisher on the inner pages. Uncommon; we've never seen this issue of the book before. Unmarked, but from the library of Peter Matthiessen. Near fine. [#032318] SOLD

(n.p.), (Klean Karma Press), 2002. A 15-page chapbook printing Roy's address, given during the months leading up to the Second Iraq War, and questioning the U.S. government's thinking and rhetoric on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the War on Terror in general. Signed by Roy, apparently at a reading in 2014, according to a print-out laid in. Fine in stapled wrappers, with one duplicate leaf of the text laid in for unknown reasons. Uncommon. An attractive chapbook, but the production values have the appearance of a homemade production or a bootleg: we can't find anything more out about the book or the publisher. OCLC locates only one copy. [#032319] SOLD

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2001). Essays by historians about historical novels, with (in most instances) responses by the novelists. This copy is signed by Smiley, who responds to "The Historical Imagination of A Thousand Acres" by John Mack Faragher. Otherwise unpublished thoughts by Smiley on her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, in part: "I have always felt somewhat removed from my most famous novel," which, for the record, she does not consider a historical novel. Upper corners tapped, else fine in a fine dust jacket. Also includes original pieces by Don DeLillo, Tim O'Brien, John Updike, Charles Frazier, Larry McMurtry, William Kennedy, and others. [#032320] SOLD

Garden City, Sun Dial Library, [ca. 1928]. Horror writer Clark Ashton Smith's copy of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel, with Smith's ownership signature on the half-title in pencil, dated December 1931, the year that Tod Browning's classic film adaption of the novel, starring Bela Lugosi, was released. Smith was a close friend, by correspondence, to H.P. Lovecraft, and along with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard comprised the "big three" of Weird Tales during the Golden Age of pulp magazines. Dracula is perhaps the most famous horror novel of all time, in part because of the Lugosi film, and this copy links the classic era of pulp fiction with one of the genre's earliest and most enduring classics. A couple small stains to boards and upper outer edge of text block; a very good copy in a very good, edge-chipped dust jacket. [#032321] SOLD

1964. Hall of Famer Musial ("Stan the Man") played baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963; in 1964, he began a three-year term as Consultant to the President on Physical Fitness, under Lyndon Johnson. This (form) letter, written on White House stationery, addressed to the Public Relations Director of the L.A. Dodgers, and signed by Musial as "Stan," asks for help, "since we don't have funds for advertising" in publicizing "two new books -- Vim for girls, Vigor for boys -- which explain how important [exercise] can be to their future." Included here are copies of Vim and Vigor, "A Complete Exercise Plan for Girls/Boys 12 to 18." [Washington, D.C.: President's Council on Physical Fitness, 1964]. Each is 24 pages, leading off with a Presidential Message from Johnson and concluding with a message from President Kennedy "prepared especially for this book in November, 1963." The 50+ year old advice is surprisingly current, and the advice across the two genders is surprisingly balanced. The letter is fine; the booklets are very good (Vim) and near fine (Vigor) in stapled wrappers. An example of President Kennedy's foresight in his emphasis on physical fitness, and the subsequent President taking up the mantle to continue his effort with the help of one of the athletic superstars of the day. [#032322] $500

NY, Knopf, 2012. The advance reading copy of her acclaimed and bestselling memoir, Wild, which was made into a well-received film. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers, and far more uncommon than the first printing, which is announced here as 100,000 copies; especially scarce signed. Together with a promotional broadside, entitled "Fear...." and excerpting the quote: "Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story... Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid." No publication information, but reportedly issued by Knopf, and illustrated with the one hiking boot from the cover of the book. Also signed by Strayed. 8-1/2" x 11". Framed; fine. The broadside itself is also quite scarce. [#032324] SOLD

NY, Greenberg/Corwin, (1950). The first novel by this science fiction writer who was an influence on the New Wave of young science fiction writers of the 1960s, and was admired by such writers as William Burroughs and Kurt Vonnegut. Sturgeon's second novel, More Than Human, posited a change in consciousness as the next step in the evolution of human beings, an idea that fit well with the drug experimentation among the counterculture of the Sixties. Inscribed by the author in 1975, with "my warmest regards." Slight sunning to board edges and tanning to endpages; near fine in a near fine, lightly rubbed dust jacket. With reader response card laid in. [#032325] SOLD

(Minneapolis/St. Paul), Rune Press/Minnesota Science Fiction Society, (1979). Three stories by Sturgeon, plus a 30+ page bibliography. A limited edition. Of a total edition of 750 copies, this is number 337 of 700 numbered copies. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, very slightly sunned dust jacket. [#032326] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1971). Thompson's hilarious, drug-soaked memoir of a trip to Vegas -- the book that defined "gonzo journalism." Inscribed by the author on May 30, 1991 at Owl Farm: "To Harry/ Lay off the whiskey & lay low. Good luck. HST/ Hunter." Mild sunning to board edges as is virtually always the case with this title, else fine in a fine dust jacket with a crease on the front flap. In a custom clamshell case with some of the dust jacket art embossed. Books signed by Thompson are uncommon, especially this key work, and most that do turn up are simply signed with his initials; this one has his initials and first name, as well as the inscription, place and date. [#022810] SOLD

Woody Creek/Loose Valley/Blue Grass/High Desert, Gonzo International/Steam Press/Petro III Graphics/Sylph Publications, (2004). A limited edition of an early, previously unpublished story by Thompson, with 13 illustrations by Steadman. Of a total edition of 176 copies, this is Copy Number 3 of 150 numbered copies signed in full by Thompson and Steadman. Quarterbound in black Asahi cloth with illustrated panels and leather spine label stamped in gold. Fine. [#032328] SOLD

NY, Random House, (1970). A review copy of Toffler's massively successful book naming the disorientation caused by the accelerated pace of cultural and technological change. Laid in are three different 2-legal-page press releases: "Future Shock May Be Key Disease of Tomorrow," "Movement for 'Responsible Technology' Needed to Combat Future Shock," and "To Prevent Future Shock, Schools Must Teach About Tomorrow." From the first: "When people complain they can't cope, what is it they can't cope with?" From the second: "... technological questions can no longer be answered in technological terms alone. 'They are political questions...we need a machinery for screening machines.'" From the third: "Today events are moving so swiftly that only another [post-John Dewey] radical shift in our 'time-bias' can save our children. The schools must develop future-consciousness." The press releases are folded in fourths; the book has mild edge-foxing and is near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a shallow crease to the rear panel. Uncommon in the first edition, with jacket, and with promotional material. A book so correct in its premises that it now seems almost quaintly outdated. [#032329] SOLD

Boston, Little Brown, (1971). One of the early P.O.W. accounts, written by a Special Forces Major who was captured by the Viet Cong in 1963 and escaped five years later. Signed by the author. Additionally, this copy is inscribed and annotated by Elizabeth Starkey, a nurse at the 24th Evac. Hospital in Long Binh where Rowe was taken, identified in the text by Rowe as "my special benefactress, a nurse lieutenant colonel." About a dozen pages of the text tell of Rowe's stay at the hospital, and about half of those pages are annotated by Starkey. Inscribed by Starkey on the first blank, with a long paragraph telling her story, in part: "One does not forget Major Rowe once having met him -- a man of great inner strength." A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some internal tape-mending. A unique, noteworthy and informative copy of this P.O.W. account; Rowe was later responsible for helping to develop the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) course for American military Special Forces. He was assassinated in 1989 in the Philippines where he was working on counter-insurgency. [#032330] SOLD

(n.p.), (Impress), (2012). A collection of more than thirty of the 145 drawings Vonnegut completed in the 1980s. Inscribed by the publisher, Hans Teensma, to Peter [Matthiessen]: "Since meeting Kurt at your house, this is a special gift to you." Also signed by Teensma in the rear of the book. Tall, thin quarto: 9-1/2" x 12-1/2". Splaying to covers, else fine. Scarce, virtually unknown publication; a different volume with the same title was published in 2014. [#032331] SOLD

New York, Lorenz Gude & Ted Berrigan, 1963. The fourth issue of this mimeographed poetry journal, this issue being devoted to the work of poet Edwin Denby, with contributions by him as well as pieces about his work by Berrigan, Frank O'Hara and John Wieners. It is most famous at this point for the cover, which "was designed by Andy Warhol from photographs of poets Edwin Denby and Gerard Malanga." Warhol took a number of Polaroid photographs of Denby and Malanga and then created a silk screen from them for the covers. The clarity and resolution of the images vary from copy to copy of the production, either as a result of the screen getting clogged by re-use or as a result of deliberate manipulation by Warhol; in this copy, the images on the front are clearly two individuals but the resolution is limited and the image presents almost as an abstraction; the rear cover, which is a shot of the two poets kissing, is in this copy virtually entirely abstract. An early and important Warhol production: this is the first known instance of Warhol using Polaroid photographs for making silkscreen images, a practice he came back to later and became his standard approach for portraits. Corrections to the text in Berrigan's or Denby's hand. Some edge wear to the covers and the spine, and a tear at the base of the spine; overall very good in stapled wrappers. [#032338] SOLD

(NY), Pantheon, (1951). An interpretation for Western readers of Eastern thought and the implications of the mystical experience, by the foremost exponent of Zen and Oriental philosophy in the West for the better part of the century. Signed by the author. Watts's writings about Zen and other Eastern religions date back to the Thirties, and he became an important figure to the Beat movement and later the counterculture as the most accessible purveyor of information about those philosophies and disciplines -- an enormously important role for a generation that was experimenting with altered states of consciousness. These days, when the New Age movement has made every spiritual discipline commonplace, it is hard to imagine a time when information about these ideas and practices was hard to come by and, when found, was more likely to be couched in the analytical terminology of an outsider examining an alien subject than grounded in cultural sensitivity and respect for the human values being represented. Watts's writings helped break down the barriers between East and West and usher in a new level of awareness both about foreign cultures and about universal human truths. Near fine in a good, fragile dust jacket that is spine faded and chipped at the corners and spine extremities and separated at the front fold. With a gift note tipped to the rear free endpaper. Watts's signature is uncommon, particularly from the period before he became an icon and celebrity. [#032332] SOLD

NY, Viking, (1965). The author's second novel, which was acclaimed at the time of publication and then fell into swift and undeserved obscurity. Stoner reportedly sold less than 2000 copies in its original edition and went out of print within a year. It was reissued in 2003 and then again in 2006, in the New York Review of Books Classics series. In 2011 it was translated into French, where it enjoyed considerable critical success and in 2012 it was named the Waterstones Book of the Year in England. The New Yorker once called it "the greatest American novel you've never heard of" and in 2014 a writer in the New York Times Magazine said he "had never encountered a work so ruthless in its devotion to human truths and so tender in its execution." A 50th anniversary edition was published in October 2015. This copy is inscribed by the author to another writer and his wife "with much pleasure and satisfaction with a new friendship begun at Bread Loaf, Vermont," and dated in August, 1966. Mild foredge foxing, slight spine lean; a near fine copy in a very good, spine-faded dust jacket with tape shadows from an old jacket protector on the flaps and spine. The first edition is very scarce, especially signed, and particularly as a literary association copy. Williams' next novel, Augustus, published in 1972, won the National Book Award. [#032333] SOLD

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1968). Wolfe's landmark account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters and their bus trip across the country. An example of, and perhaps the epitome of, the "New Journalism" that Wolfe helped to bring about in the Sixties; it was called at the time "the most penetrating piece of writing yet done on the ethos and dynamics of the hippie," and it remains a classic of the time, and the most definitive, sympathetic and insightful account of the seminal events of the 1960s counterculture -- the cross-country bus trip and the LSD-fueled gatherings -- "acid tests" -- that defined the Bay Area counterculture community in the mid-1960s, when LSD was still legal. Mild fading to top edge and a bit of sunning to the edges; a near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with one edge tear and small corner chips. [#032334] SOLD