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(Washington, D.C), (Department of State), (1966). An offprint from the Department of State Bulletin, a memorandum submitted to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, largely concentrating on the issue of whether Congressional approval, and a formal declaration of war, were necessary for U.S. troops to be committed to combat in Vietnam. 16 pages. Stamped "Library of Congress Surplus/Duplicate." Near fine in stapled wrappers. [#010070] $40
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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, Harper & Brothers, 1846. With 1600 engravings by J.A. Adams, more than 1400 of which are from original designs by J.G. Chapman. Published in 54 issues for subscribers, and then bound, optionally with a picture of the owner's church engraved on the cover. Here offered in two volumes: The Old Testament and The New Testament bound separately, each featuring Trinity Church in New York on the cover. On both volumes, the front cover is detached, and there is staining and foxing, for the most part contained to endpages and prelims. The larger volume has a chip threatening at the crown. Overall, good copies, with the contents quite well-preserved. Weighty: domestic shipping only. [#036356] $600
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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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(n.p.), Yale Review / Southwest Review, 1997. Two offprints, one each from the Yale Review and the Southwest Review, featuring Section III and Section IV, respectively, from his longer poem. Both offprints are inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife in 1997. Side-stapled wrappers; near fine. [#033700] $75
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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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NY, Thomas Y. Crowell, (1970). Apparently the first of many biographies of Carson, preceding even Paul Brooks' The House of Life (1972). This volume was published in Crowell's "Women of America" series. Mild splaying to boards; near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and wear to the edges and folds. Uncommon in the first printing, with many copies having gone to libraries. [#035674] $200
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Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1984. Inscribed by the author in 1986. Fine in wrappers. [#914438] $150
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Berkeley, Print Mint, 1969. First and only printing. Near fine. [#036367] $85
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NY, Knopf, (1961). Later, but early, printing of one of Dahl's classics. Bound by Book Press, with a 4-line colophon, this is the issue in light blue boards with a darker quarter spine and an SBN on the rear jacket panel. Distinguished by its condition: light foxing to the top edge; slight mustiness; but a near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. [#035570] $350
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Santiago, Nascimento, 1960. An early collection of short stories, the fourth book by this Chilean writer, which was not translated into English or published in the U.S. for 17 years. This book precedes any publication of Donoso's work in the U.S. by five years. Pages browning with age but still near fine in self-wraps. A scarce volume, given the Chilean imprint, the fragile binding and the cheap, acidic paper used in production. [#013579] $100
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(NY), Aperture, (1979). A volume in Aperture's History of Photography series. This copy is inscribed by the screenwriter Lloyd Fonvielle, who provides the introduction, to film critic Pauline Kael, in 1981. The introduction comprises the entire text of the volume, other than the appendices; the rest of the book reproduces Evans's photographs, without caption. Light foxing to prelims; near fine in boards, without dust jacket, as issued. [#035974] $350
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London, Jonathan Cape, 1957. Quarter leather clamshell box, custom made for the first edition of Fleming's spy thriller. Black cloth; black leather spine with raised spine bands, printed in gold with author, title, and "First Edition / 1957." Near fine. Case only, no book. [#036398] $250
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(n.p.), Twenty-Third Avenue Books/First Choice Books, 1997. A broadside excerpt from Frazier's novel, produced on the occasion of a reading by the author. Copy "A" of 26 lettered copies. 9-1/2" x 16-1/2". Signed by the author. Fine. [#912583] $500
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Somerset, Chicken House, (2003). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#915006] $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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London, Jonathan Cape, 2003. A 4-page promotional flyer (with the McEwan blurb); and a set of five Fickling promotional postcards with Volkswagens of varying colors and featuring either a quote from the book, from the publisher, or from Ian McEwan, Arthur Golden, or Oliver Sacks. Together with two copies of the Fickling jacket, which are near fine; the flyer and the postcards are fine. Uncommon promotional ephemera. [#031393] $80
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. The uncorrected proof of this collection of three novellas. Inscribed by Harrison to a longtime editor (albeit not the editor of this title): "To ___, from his old friend/ Jimmy." Some handling apparent to wrappers; near fine. A nice association. [#036415] $350
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(NY), (John Love), [ca. 1975]. One of John Love's "Hearsay Broadsheets," this one announcing a poetry reading on Saturday, October 25 at Tin Palace. Poets include: Russell Edson, John Eskow, David Ignatow, Bill Knott, John Love, Thomas Lux, Bart Midwood, James Tate, and Virginia Terres. 19" x 8-1/2", printed in red on cream. Love's stamp appears on the verso. Folded in half, else fine. [#035320] $125
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Zurich, Rascher & Cie., 1919. The first German edition of Joyce's play Exiles and the first of his works to be published in translation in any language. One of 600 copies printed: Joyce was living in Zurich at the time and he paid for the publication of this book out of his own pocket. This copy is inscribed by the author: "To J.R. [sic] Watson, Jun / with grateful regards / James Joyce / 8. ix. 1919." J.S. Watson, Jr. was at the time the co-owner of the modernist literary journal The Dial, which he bought from Martyn Johnson with his friend and fellow Harvard graduate, Scofield Thayer. Watson became president of the magazine and Thayer became its editor. The "grateful regards" refers to a gift of $300 that Watson had sent Joyce earlier in the year at the urging of Thayer, who had himself sent Joyce $700. These sums bailed Joyce out of dire financial straits, allowed him to settle a court case against him, and helped him support the theater group that he had associated with in Zurich, the English Players. In 1920 The Dial published a piece by Joyce, and in 1921 Thayer was one of his most ardent and influential supporters in the censorship case in New York against Ulysses and its publication in the Little Review. A notable association copy of Joyce's first translation. Slocum & Cahoon D44. Pages browned and acidified, and covers strengthened at all the edges and spine with tape, with a hole cut in the spine for the title to show through. The first blank, on which the inscription appears, is also strengthened at the edges with tape. Fragile, and a candidate for de-acidification, but a significant association copy from a critical point in Joyce's life and career. [#029930] $10,000
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(1980-1981). Three autograph letters signed (two on personal stationery; one written inside a card) to fellow writer Jay Neugeboren, praising his recent story in The Atlantic and his current novel. Kaplan is especially taken with the Jewishness of Neugeboren's work: "I think it's very rare to find such a daring, honest, wonderful story that is a genuinely Jewish story in a national magazine. (First of all, I think very few stories of that description are being written)....you've captured an attitude, a spirit in this story that except for the very early immigrant writers (& some of them were primitive so not "art") that has been either unknown or buried in the mainstream of American Jewish fiction." All items fine. [#012866] $40
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(Oslo), Oversettelse av Olav Angell, (1983). A Norwegian edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#023512] $40
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(Prague), Odeon, (1979). A Czech edition. A little edge-toning; near fine in a very good, rubbed dust jacket with light edge creasing. [#023513] $40
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London, Jonathan Cape, (1978). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife, "who (or whom) I love." A hint of cover creasing; near fine in wrappers. [#033801] $60
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(n.p.), Studies in the Humanities, 1975. An offprint of Loomis' article from Studies in the Humanities. 7 pages of text. Marginal tanning/foxing. Stapled wrappers; near fine. Not found in OCLC. [#036037] $45
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Woodstock, Overlook Press, (1999). Poetry by the playwright and filmmaker. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#024759] $95
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(NY), Viking, (1990). Signed by the author. Unmarked, but from the library of Robert Stone. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#033754] $85
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San Francisco, North Point, 1990. The uncorrected proof copy of her second book, a novel transformed by the author's best friend dying from AIDS during the writing. North Point dissolved shortly after the book was published, and the title never got the attention it deserved. Significant textual differences exist between this proof and the published version. Very near fine in wrappers. [#035255] $40
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[Alaska], [Self-Published], [ca. 1967-1970s]. Apparently a homemade production of these three essays by Meader: "The Wilderness and Post-Civilized Man" (first published in Snowy Egret, 1966); "A Return to Wilderness" (first published in Alaska Review, 1965); and "The Coming Obsolescence of Man" (previously unpublished?). Only one copy listed in OCLC. From a 1974 article about Meader in Newsweek: “After five years of odd jobs, European travel and an abortive try at homesteading in Canada, a vague sense of dissatisfaction with civilized life drove them [Meader and his wife, Elaine] to Alaska...For most of the past 15 years they have lived in the remote Brooks Range of the Arctic interior, 50 miles from their nearest neighbor and 250 miles from the nearest road...Their home was a three-room log cabin; their diet was meat, fish and berries. They fashioned bowls from spruce roots and made clothing from caribou hides..." Their lives were documented in the film "Year of the Caribou" (also released as "The Alaska Wilderness Adventure"). 19 pages, 8-1/2" x 11" sheets, side-stapled with blue front cover and no rear cover, possibly as issued. Several small penciled notes to text; inked price to front cover. A very good copy. Scarce: OCLC lists only one copy in institutional holdings (UC-Davis). [#035129] $300
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London/NY, Putnam/Dutton, 1959/1961. A review copy of the American edition, consisting of the true first (British) edition, copyedited on the title page and front flap to reflect changes to be made in the American edition, with a pencil note on the front flyleaf about the projected change in size. With review slip laid in. Correspondence about Miller between Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles, with interjections by Miller. Miller met both Durrell and Perles in Paris in the Thirties. Dusty top edge; fine in a very near fine dust jacket. Together with a copy of the American edition, as issued. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027323] $100
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Paris, (Durand), (1953). Six illustrations by American surrealist artist Leon Kelly. This is Copy No. 47 of an unspecified limitation by this prolific French writer and translator. A near fine copy in self-wrappers, with a very good glassine dustwrapper. [#035597] $100
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(London), Andre Deutsch, (1960). Second printing of the first book by this Trinidadian author of Indian descent, who came to be regarded as one of the giants of contemporary English literature, and the most astute, if acerbic, Western commentator on Third World issues. Naipaul won the Booker Prize for his collection In a Free State and numerous other literary awards over the course of his 40-year writing career. Bookplate of poets Barbara Howes and William Jay Smith front pastedown; foxing to endpages and page edges; pencilled marginal markings; spine slant; very good in a near fine, second impression dust jacket with a vertical fold at the spine. [#018689] $95
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NY, Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, 1933-1937. 39 programs for performances of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, from 1933-1937. 24 are for performances at Carnegie Hall; 15 are for summer performances at Lewisohn Stadium. The 24 Carnegie Hall programs date from 1933-1936: 22 of them are from the 94th Season, and half of these feature Toscanini conducting (the other two are from the 92nd and 95th seasons). The 15 Lewisohn Stadium programs ("Stadium Concerts Reviews") date mostly from 1935-1937 (with one from 1933). Some of these bear notations, but are near fine or better in stapled wrappers. The condition of the Carnegie Hall programs is more mixed: about half are near fine; one has insect damage; one is missing half of the first page; a few are dirty; and several have notations, including the March 5-6, 1936 program with a cover that bears the words "Performance Cancelled; Requiem Not Performed." [#036002] $400
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NY, David McKay, (1965). His first novel. Some loss to spine lettering and modest handling to boards; near fine in a very near fine dust jacket with one short edge tear on the upper front panel. [#911784] $175
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Los Angeles, 20th Century Fox, 1940. The revised shooting final screenplay, dated December 15, 1939, although with 24 pages of colored inserts dating from January and February, 1940. Machine stamped "copy #1," belonging to the producer Darryl F. Zanuck. This was one of the two screenplays that O'Hara worked on from September to December 1939 and shared screenplay credits for, in this case with Karl Tunberg and Don Ettlinger. The movie was produced by Zanuck, and starred Vera Zorina, Erich von Stroheim and Peter Lorre. Quarto; mimeographed pages with blue revision sheets inserted. Near fine in printed studio wrappers. Rare. [#025153] $2,000
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NY, Doubleday, (1994). The advance reading copy of his second book, first novel. Winner of the 1993 Pirates Alley William Faulkner Prize for the Novel. Inscribed by the author: "For ___, this cold, cold book. Stay warm!" Fine in wrappers. [#030018] $85
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[Berkeley], Maidu Press, [c. 1973]. "A Maidu Free Poem" broadside of the title poem of Piercy's 1973 collection. This version has one small change from the book version published in 1973 (there were several more changes in later versions). The edition of this broadside is unstated, but the broadside is marked as "1/ ." The only other Maidu Free Poems we are aware of are a 1971 Gary Snyder broadside, "Swimming Naked in the Yuba River," and "I Saw the Green Yuba Flow" by Franco Beltrametti. The Snyder was done in an edition of 200 copies. Maidu Press was the creation of two of Snyder's neighbors and friends, Steve Sanfield and Dale Pendell, both of them poets living on the San Juan Ridge, as Snyder was. This broadside reproduces calligraphy by Snyder, according to the Snyder bibliography. The presence of a blacked out mistake in the last line of the first stanza and the backward limitation (the copy number specified but not the number of copies, rather than vice versa) combine to suggest this is a trial copy or an unused or proof copy. We have no evidence that the edition was ever done: the Piercy bibliography lists no Maidu Press publication and OCLC shows no copies held in institutional libraries. A scarce, virtually unknown collaboration between Piercy and Snyder, both of them major American poets of the postwar era, and both associated with the counterculture of the 1960s and beyond. 8-1/2" x 11", on heavy orange paper. One tiny lower corner bend; still fine. [#036504] SOLD

NY, Grove Press, (1955). Poetry, issued in a lettered edition of 26 copies and a numbered edition of 250 copies: this is a presentation copy (designated as "s.c. 3 for Nancy"), signed by the author and, as with the lettered issue, with an original drawing by Irene Rice Pereira, the author's wife, signed by the artist as frontispiece. It can be assumed that the presentation copies ("s.c" -- "special copy"?) were even more limited than the lettered copies, as is almost always the case in the issuance of limited editions such as this. A fine copy in a professionally restored dust jacket. Laid in is an autograph holiday card addressed to Nancy and her partner and signed by Reavey for himself and Irene, with an image by Pereira from the collection of the Whitney Museum. A significant volume, with an original work of art by a distinguished American abstract artist: Pereira's work is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, the National Museum of American Art, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, among many others. [#014615] $1,250
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(Various), (Various), 1986-2003. An extensive collection of audio renditions of Rice's long-running Vampire series, with 41 recordings of 13 titles, most of which are Random House audiobooks or Books on Tape, but also including works by Recorded Books and Isis Audio Books. The majority of the recordings are on cassette tape, with a dozen in CD format. 18 of the recordings are unabridged, with at least one unabridged audio of each title present, with the exception of Memnoch the Devil (and The Vampire Chronicles, which is itself an abridgment). The titles (and the number of recordings) are as follows: Interview with the Vampire (4); The Vampire Lestat (4); The Queen of the Damned (2); The Vampire Chronicles (1); The Tale of the Body Thief (3); Memnoch the Devil (1); The Vampire Armand (4); Pandora (3); Vittorio the Vampire (4); Merrick (3); Blood and Gold (3); Blackwood Farm (5); and Blood Canticle (4). The audios are presumed to be in fine condition. Vittorio's CD case has been replaced; otherwise the cases and boxes are fine or near fine, but for an indentation to an Interview cassette box. Will ship at cost. [#035610] $350
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(London), Little Brown, (2004). The advance reading copy of the British edition of this massive novel, which was loosely based on the author's life story, including his escape from an Australian prison and living on the run for a number of years. He wrote the novel while in prison, after being recaptured, and it became a bestseller. Labeled "uncorrected bound proof." Fine in wrappers. Uncommon in an advance issue. [#914678] $200
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San Francisco, 1967. "Spirit of '67." Playing with Sopwith Camel, July 7th and 8th, 1967. Four color, with an Uncle Sam motif. 5" x 7". Corresponds to the poster depicted in Art of Rock, #2.149. This performance was at California Hall in San Francisco. Fine. [#009690] $175
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(n.p.), (Dial Press), (1968). The uncorrected proof copy of his Pulitzer Prize-winning play. Quarto, 8" x 11"; paper clip imprint to front cover and first few pages (clip still present); sunning to covers and the number 48 written in pencil on front; near fine. An uncommon format, suggesting that not many copies would have been done. [#007163] $185
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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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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2008. A collection of poems, warmly inscribed to Peter and Maria Matthiessen. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#032523] $100
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(NY), Ecco/HarperPerennial, (2007/2008). Two copies from the author's own library: a later printing of the hardcover edition (Ecco, 2007) and a first printing of the paperback edition (Harper Perennial, 2008). Both are very near fine. [#033843] $50
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1979, 1986. Two typed letters signed from Stone, the first from Honolulu, the second from Providence, RI. The first grants permission for the recipient to use his name and discusses his time in Hawaii and his delay in responding ["I've been under the weight of burdens real and imaginary here that have played hell with my time."]. The second apparently accompanied a recommendation for the recipient ["If you think of anything they might want beyond this, I think you might add whatever you feel is necessary and sign my name."]. The recipient was a writer who studied with Stone in the Seventies and later became a friend. Both letters are folded for mailing; else fine, with envelopes. Also included is an autograph letter signed by Stone's wife, Janice in which she offers the recipient use of their summer home in the off-season. [#026626] $275
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NY, Knopf, (1965). A book of poems, one for each month. This is the third of Updike's books for children done in the Sixties, this being the trade binding (there was also a library binding done). Illustrated by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket. [#912070] $100
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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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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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(Menlo Park), Portola, 1970. First printing. Edge wear to covers and spine; modest dampstaining at text edges; about very good in wrappers. [#035749] $50
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(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 2009. A spiralbound mock-up of a book of selected poems, with photocopied selections from, apparently, seven of her previous books. Some pages reproduce copyeditor's marks. Such a selection was issued by Wave Books in 2009. Last few pages creased, with a small (coffee?) stain. Otherwise about fine. Unmarked, but from the author's library. Scarce, possibly unique. [#034480] $250
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