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NY, Oxford University Press, 1981. The uncorrected proof copy of this anthology of stories selected by V.S. Pritchett. Edge-foxing; near fine in wrappers. [#036249] $40
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NY, Vintage, (1999). The uncorrected proof copy. Near fine in wrappers. [#036292] $50
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Undated nineteenth century prints of Indian scenes from the Pacific Northwest, each measuring approx. 6-1/2" x 9" and mounted in 12" x 14" mats. The first is a portrait of a "Mahlemute Man and Woman" in traditional dress standing at a riverside camp, with salmon being dried and smoked in the background. The second depicts a "Beluga Hunter and Dwellings - Lower Kuskokvim, Alaska," with the hunter, dressed for kayaking, and his wife standing at water's edge, ready to launch the kayak. The third depicts two Indian men, a "Thlinkit [sic] and Man From Copper River," showing the different traditional dress of the two, with the Tlingit carrying a rifle and the Copper River man a bow and arrows. An interesting glimpse at an early view of the various native tribes of that region. All three are slightly age-darkened, else fine. [#002192] $115
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West Lafayette, Purdue, (1985). A collection of poems, only issued in wrappers. This copy is inscribed by the author in January, 1986: "For __ __, reaching across the plains, this one is for you. Jim Barnes. Kirksville MO." Slight bump to crown, else fine in wrappers, with publisher's prospectus laid in. [#036423] $125
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Kirskville, New Odyssey Press, (1998). A bilingual edition of poetry, with translations from the German by Barnes. This copy is signed by Barnes on the title page and inscribed by him on the half title. Slight splaying to boards; else fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon, especially signed. [#036425] $125
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Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1994. Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife, "with much affection & admiration," in the year of publication. Fine in a very good dust jacket, with some fading to the spine and a small but jagged edge tear on the lower back panel. [#033691] $65
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Worcester, Metacom Press, 1981. The hardcover issue. The first separate appearance of this short story, which first appeared in Antaeus. Of a total edition of 276 copies, this is one of 26 lettered copies, signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911362] $250
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(NY), MR Press, 1962. Poetry with a political edge by this activist poet, written during the volatile era of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Inscribed by Beecher to Will Inman, another poet known for his political and social activism: "For Will Inman/ a poet whose work I like./ John Beecher/ May 22, 1967." Owner name and phone on front flyleaf with inscription on half title; wear to cloth at corners; a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with a couple small edge chips. A nice literary association copy. [#029630] $80
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(Brussels), (Fondation Europeenne pour la Sculpture), (1997). Bell provides a bilingual (English/French) fable as introduction to the catalog of work by Jean de la Fontaine: in 1997 the Luxembourg artist had installed his "Love of Camping" in a Brussels park. Number 452 of 500 numbered copies. Fine in stapled wrappers. A scarce piece by Bell, attractively illustrated. [#917040] $150
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Tucson, Firsts, 2005. The full year, 10 issues (no issue published in July or August). Articles on Richard Powers, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fritz Leiber, Frederik Pohl, a Patrick O'Brian update, etc. Fine. May require added postage. [#036327] $50
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Tucson, Firsts, 2006. The full year, 10 issues (no issue published in July or August). Articles on Saul Bellow, Charles Bowden, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Philbrick, Charles Portis, Robert Heinlein, Madeleine L'Engle, Nancy Drew, etc. Fine. May require added postage. [#036328] $50
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(Augsburg), Maro Verlag, (1997). The German language issue of the first separate appearance of a story that first appeared in the Georgia Review in 1979. Illustrated with woodcuts by Sophie Dutertre. Fine in self-wrappers, with a one sheet, four-page author/illustrator biographical supplement laid in, also illustrated by Dutertre. Uncommon. This copy is signed by Boyle. [#911383] $150
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NY, Penguin, (1977). Near fine in wrappers. [#036027] $75
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Kingston, Kingston Publishers, (1992). The true first (Jamaican) edition of Campbell's autobiography which deals, to a great degree, with the obscenity case brought against him and the Two Live Crew for their lyrics on their album "As Nasty as They Wanna Be." The album was declared obscene and illegal to sell; Campbell and two others were arrested after performing songs from the album at a club in Florida. They were acquitted after Henry Louis Gates, Jr., among others, spoke on behalf of their lyrics. This book was published in Kingston, Jamaica, with a "Parental Advisory" notice on its cover, because it was thought that it might not be publishable by an American publisher. When it was finally published in America, after the trial and appeal had ended, it became a bestseller, but the Jamaican edition, which is the true first, is scarce. OCLC lists only 6 copies of the Kingston edition. Light wear to spine and corners; near fine in wrappers. [#034789] $1,500
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London, Faber and Faber, (1980). First thus: the first British edition of this collection of stories, some of which appeared in the collection War Crimes, which was not published outside of his native Australia, and the others of which are from his first book, which was published in Australia with this same title in 1974. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#911418] $125
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Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1984. Inscribed by the author in 1986. Fine in wrappers. [#914438] $150
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1993. A promotional poster for the annual Toronto literary festival, which each year since 1980 has brought together many of the best writers of contemporary world literature. One of only a handful of copies signed by all or most of the year's participants, approximately 61 signatures. Signed by: Paulo Coelho, William Vollmann, Jane Urquhart, Bobbie Ann Mason, Bharati Mukherjee, Aidan Mathews, Peter Levi, Marilyn Davis, Carol Shields, Ruth Rendell, Mavis Gallant, Barry Callaghan, Rose Tremain, Peter Mayle, Walter Abish, Robert Stone, Priscilla Juvelis, Paul Auster, Barry Unsworth, Rosa Lixsom, Vikram Seth, Austin Clarke, Bapsi Sidhwa, Joan Riley, Yves Beauchemin, James Mackey, Daniel Mark Epstein, and many others. From the collection of the promoter of the festival, Greg Gatenby. Designed by General Idea, a collective of three Canadian artists, two of whom died of AIDS in 1994. 17" x 22". Fine. [#029749] $1,000
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San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1971. First printing, with blue sky on the rear cover (Jay Kennedy's Price Guide). Near fine. [#036388] $85
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London, Mandrake Press, [1929]. A collection of three stories, issued in the series "Mandrake Booklets." Owner name, address, and 1930 date on the front flyleaf. Near fine in a very good, spine-darkened dust jacket. Rare: we find only one copy listed in OCLC WorldCat. [#034870] $750
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NY, William Morrow, 1965. Winner of the 1966 John Burroughs Medal; a book about the life of herring gulls on an island off the Maine coast. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by Darling, and with a foreword by Roger Tory Peterson, whose recommendation of Louis and Lois Darling to Rachel Carson had resulted in the Darlings illustrating Silent Spring in 1962. An uncommon first edition. Slightly musty; near fine in a very good dust jacket with a couple of small edge chips on the rear panel. [#035124] $125
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(NY), Basic Books, (2002). A sobering account of how environmental pollution affects public health and the corporate and political obstacles to action. Signed by the author. Laid into the book is the program for a seminar by Davis given in Rochester in 2003. The program is filled with the participant's notes; the book has some foxing to the top edge and is otherwise fine in a fine dust jacket. [#036434] $275
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(n.p.), Privately Printed, 1895. First edition (not stated but with a C. Gerhardt bookseller's catalog page stating as such, back when it was offered for $1). Title is in all capital letters; the "L" and "W" being larger than the others. Red decorations precede each stanza. 4-1/2" x 5-3/4". Tiny notation and red dots on rear cover near spine; stapled spine is fragile. A near fine copy. Included at no charge is an unnumbered copy of Field's An Imitation of Robert Herrick which has tape marks on the inner covers. [#036073] $100
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Gorham/Portland, [University of Southern Maine], 1971. Poster advertising two showings of films by Kenneth Anger, Harry Smith, Stan Brakhage, Ed Emshwiller, and "one unannounced film on an American Mythical Event," to be held on two campuses of the University of Southern Maine. Anger's films were his landmark Scorpio Rising and his 1969 Invocation of My Demon Brother, which had a soundtrack by Mick Jagger and won a Film Culture award in 1970 for best experimental film. Brakhage's films included the Dog Star Man sequence and two others from the early 1960s, one of which includes a typo in its title ("Theigh" instead of "Thigh"). 19" x 24". An attractive and compelling design, four color on what we believe to be the more common white background; near fine. [#033336] $125
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1987. July 20, 1987. Ford writes, presumably to a publisher, declining to offer unspecified praise (review or book blurb) for another writer's book, despite having "some genuine admiration for it" and admitting that "he's a nice writer of sentences." At the same time, Ford gets in a pitch for Richard Bausch's book Spirits. Folded for mailing, else fine. [#912557] $150
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(London), Faber and Faber, (2004). A limited edition with text by Alex Garland and woodcuts by Nicholas Garland. Of a total edition of 310 copies, this is number 289 of 250 numbered copies (#s 51-300) signed by both Garlands. Folio, 17" x 12"; fine in slipcase. [#914498] $160
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Garden City, Doubleday, 1963. Inscribed to his bibliographer, Stuart Wright, on the front endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. [#008878] $80
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NY, Ballantine/Del Rey, (1978). The hardcover issue. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#916291] $150
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Berkeley, Kept Press, 1976. Poetry chapbook, inscribed by the author to Pauline Kael. Kauffman has also included a photocopy of a letter he received from Jean Rhys, thanking him for his poems. Near fine in stapled wrappers. [#034556] $45
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NY, Villard, (2000). Inscribed to Pauline Kael, "Love & a half" and signed by both authors. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#034562] $45
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(NY), (One Story), (2004). His first solo appearance in print, a story that was later included in his collection Sightseeing. Published as Issue 46 of One Story. Lapcharoensap was named as one of Granta's best young American novelists, despite the fact that his one book to that point was a short story collection. Fine in stapled wrappers and signed by the author. [#913211] $125
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NY, Dutton, 1965. The first American edition of this Vietnam novel by the author of The Centurions and The Praetorians. Offsetting to endpages and foxing to the edges of the text block; very good in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. [#035538] $65
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NY, Andrion Books, (1987). Stamp of another author inside the front cover and a small ink "R" there; else fine in wrappers. [#030943] $40
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San Francisco, Level Press, (c. 1973). A "transmission" by Leary from Folsom Prison, timed with the arrival of the comet Kohoutek. This is a photocopy of nine pages of typewritten text on five stapled pages. The last page reproduces a hand-drawn yin-yang symbol with eight trigrams around it and references one of the hexagrams of the I Ching -- none of which appeared in the published version of this book, which was done by the Level Press and issued as a booklet; this version presumably preceded. According to Leary's bibliographer and the woman who typed Leary's manuscripts for him, including Starseed, this could have been made from Leary's own typescripts (she would have corrected the typos, she said) and issued in small numbers prior to the formal publication. A similar process took place for Neurologic, which was published in late 1973 but had a stapled, prepublication issue done in May of that year that the bibliographer called a "trial issue." Starseed was formally published in September of 1973, and this version -- if what the principals say is correct -- would likely have been done sometime around the time that the Neurologic "trial copy" was done (Neurologic was formally published slightly later in the year than the Level Press Starseed). In any case, an extremely scarce variant of one of Leary's scarcer books, unseen by the bibliographer or by Leary's typist. Near fine. [#030748] $1,500
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(Ancona/Rome), Institut International J. Maritain, 1978-1990. 24 volumes, totaling 34 issues (including double issues), as follows: Numbers: 10/11, 15, 17, 22/23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29; and New Series Numbers: 1, 2/3, 4, 5/6, 7, 8, 9/10, 11/12, 13, 15/16, 19/20, 21/22, 23, 26, 27/28. About 1/4 of the covers are dampstained, although the texts are mostly unaffected but for some moderate foxing. The price of the lot has been reduced for condition. Text in French. [#035813] $100
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NY, Viking, (1983). Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book about the confrontation between American Indian activists and the FBI in the early 1970s at Pine Ridge Reservation near Wounded Knee that left two federal agents and one Indian dead, and resulted in AIM activist Leonard Peltier imprisoned for life, convicted of the agents' murder in a case that, as Matthiessen describes it, was rife with government malfeasance. This copy is inscribed by Matthiessen in the year of publication: "For Rahda & Jimmy/ with many thanks and love. Peter. In your beautiful house/ Santa Barbara/ March - 1983." Also signed in full on the front pastedown. Trace edge sunning, still a fine copy in a very good, very spine-faded dust jacket with modest edge wear. [#035589] $250
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NY, Pageant Press, (1952). Apparently his first book, on how to make money on horse racing, after a career that started with writing for racing papers and eventually evolved into writing pulp fiction for Ace paperbacks, most with a race track theme. This copy is inscribed by the author: "For ___ ___/ You can always tell a horse player, but you can't tell him much." A very good copy in a fair, edge-chipped dust jacket. [#035815] $75
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Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, 1934-1937. Eight programs; 3 apparently missing their covers and clipped together. Several annotations in the lot; some edge soiling. Overall, very good in wrappers. [#035938] $40
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NY, D. Appleton, 1925. The Cherokee author's first book and, with D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded, one of the two most important debuts of modern Native American writers. This one, however, preceding McNickle's book by over a decade, may rightfully be called the first Native American novel of the modern era. The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture says: "...critic Gretchen Ronnow states that [Oskison] 'was one of the first major American Indian writers to grapple with the issues of being a highly educated mixed-blood trying to defend a tribal heritage.'" Owner name front flyleaf; rubbing to the joints and board edges and a vertical crease to the spine. A very good copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket. [#036232] $325
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1993. A typed letter signed by Ouellette to a friend and fellow writer, mentioning another screenplay he is working on based on an H.P. Lovecraft story -- which apparently never went into production -- and appending a printout of his four-page short story "The Fourth Witch," which appears to remain unpublished. Edge-creased, folded in thirds for mailing; near fine, with envelope included. [#031476] $175
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(London), Faber and Faber, (2003). The advance reading copy of his Guardian Prize- and Booker Prize-winning first novel. Extremely slight corner bump; still fine in wrappers. [#024593] $60
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Miami, Pandanus Press, (1952). One of 225 copies of this attractive oversize volume that collects Spanish translations of five of Pound's poems, including three of the Cantos. This copy is inscribed by one of the translators, Margaret Bate, to fellow translator Doris Dana. Covers foxed; near fine in self-wrappers with small edge chip. [#027456] $175
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Los Angeles, Bauer Benedek, (1987). Photocopied screenplay for the spooky thriller directed by John Schlesinger, who also did The Day of the Locust, Marathon Man, The Falcon and the Snowman and others. In an agency binder, with a cover letter from the agency to a novelist laid in. Fine. [#019022] $95
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[Wheeling], Innovation, (1991). The hardcover issue of the first collected edition of Innovation's twelve-part graphic novel based on Rice's second book in her Vampire Chronicles, adapted by Perozich and painted by Daerick Gross. Very slight bump to top edge, still fine in a fine dust jacket. [#035611] $150
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(Milwaukee), Membrane Press, 1976. Inscribed by Rothenberg to Clayton [Eshleman] and Caryl, "the pleasure of your company." Near fine in wrappers. [#033545] $45
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(Washington, D.C.), National Association for Women in Education, (1996). An exploration of gendered experiences in the classroom, from nearly every conceivable angle. This is a follow-up to the 1982 report The Classroom Climate. Co-authored by Sandler, with Lisa A. Silverberg and Roberta M. Hall. This copy is inscribed by Sandler: "To Carol - keep up the good work." Near fine in wrappers. [#034716] $100
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NY, Counterpoint, (2003). The advance reading copy. Trace foxing to top edge, else fine in wrappers. [#036180] $45
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Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1964. Includes Robert Stone's first book appearance, two excerpts from his first novel, then in progress. Other contributors to this volume include Ed McClanahan, Hugh Nissenson, and Merrill Joan Gerber. Edited by Wallace Stegner. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#009509] $50
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(Boston), G.K. Hall and Marquis Who's Who, Inc., (1978). A poem by Updike, published as a holiday greeting card. Signed by the author. Fine, with original (unused) mailing envelope. Together with a presumed proof copy, with the copyright notice handwritten (in an unknown hand) rather than printed on the rear cover. Also fine. Both housed together in a G.K. Hall envelope. An ephemeral piece, uncommon signed, and rare in the variant with the handwritten copyright notice. [#031524] $1,250
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(Toronto), (Aya Press), (1982). Number 407 of 500 numbered copies signed by Jane Urquhart and by Tony Urquhart, the artist. 18-3/8" x 4-3/4". This is the second issue, in gray cloth. Pages uncut; two very slight corner taps; else fine. [#914603] $150
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Garden City, Doubleday/Anchor, 1970. "Poems of the Space Age," edited by the poet Robert Van Dias and inscribed by him to Robert Bly, with best wishes, in Brooklyn, in February, 1971. Mild creasing to spine and foxing to foredge; general handling apparent to covers; very good. A Doubleday Anchor paperback original. [#036118] $50
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San Francisco, Sierra Club/Yolla Bolly Press, (1983). His third book, winner of the1984 John Burroughs Medal. Inscribed by the author: "To Raymond and Mary Ellen Haight/ with best wishes/ David Rains Wallace/ 3/17/83." Evolution, mythology, and Sasquatch mix amid the ecosystems of the Northwest's Klamath Mountains. Published by the Sierra Club. A fine copy in a very good, unlaminated jacket with strips of sunning, light edge wear and a 2" tear at the lower rear spine fold. Scarce signed. The Haights were long-time residents of San Francisco: Raymond's great grandfather, Henry Huntley Haight, was governor of California, and among other accomplishments, has a famous street named for him. [#036000] $350
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NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1978). First thus: a collection of nature poetry first published in 1970 but re-issued here with illustrations by Kazue Mizumura. Inscribed by Zolotow: "For Rebecca/ Lucky wishes/ Charlotte Zolotow." Zolotow, a prolific author of children's books, also holds the distinction of being the person who first recognized the genius of Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy, while working at Harper & Brothers. Near fine in a very good, lightly foxed dust jacket. [#036496] $125
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