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ca. 1980s. An archive of the 1980s art world, from the files of Art & Antiques magazine, with more than 350 signed pieces of correspondence from approximately 200 names in the fields of art, architecture, academia, literature, dance, photography, music, journalism, fashion, economics, social history, and more. The archive includes letters, notes, cards, invitations; several signed contracts; and approximately 20 typescripts, all from notables such as: Svetlana Alpers, Eve Arnold, John Barth, Daniel Boorstin, Jean-Claude Christo, Craig Claiborne, William Crutchfield, Oscar de Mejo, Carol Diehl, Max Ferguson, Leslie Fieldler, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stella Gibbons, Francoise Gilot, Adam Gopnik, Robert Gottlieb, Francine du Plexis Gray, Tina Howe, Philip Johnson, Wolf Kahn, Allegra Kent, Carlton Lake, Walter Liedtke, John Loengard, George Lois, Edward Lucie-Smith, Sam Messner, P.J. O'Rourke, Jed Perl, Bennard Perlman, Darryl Pinckney, David Plante, Reginald Pollack, Mordecai Richler, Jerome Rothenberg, Peter Schjeldahl, Joan Snyder, Debra Solomon, Holly Solomon, Eve Sonneman, Pat Steir, Faith Stewart-Gordon, Andrew Sullivan, Michael Van Rijn, and Diana Vreeland, among many others. A few of the folders have apparently been carried forward from an earlier time, and pre-date the 1980s (and several may fall into the 90s). Alphabetical file folders, in two bankers boxes. Scattered marginal foxing; near fine. [#035965] $4,500
$3,375

NY, Knopf, 1983. The first American edition. Warmly inscribed by Richard Adams, author of Watership Down, "To Marilyn with gratitude and all good wishes," and dated December, 1982. Note that the title page of this US edition gives the publication date of 1983, but the copyright page and the dust jacket both bear a 1982 date. Adams and Lockley, in alternating voices throughout the text, tell the story of their 6500 mile journey from Tierra del Fuego, along the coasts and seas of Antarctica, to the southern tip of New Zealand. Heavily illustrated with photographs by Peter Hirst-Smith. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with shallow edge wear. Scarce signed. [#036189] SOLD

New Rochelle, Elizabeth Press, (1965). Poetry by a writer of Cherokee-French descent, also known as Gogisgi. This is his first book. Stamped as having belonged to the literary magazine Epoch. Narrow dampstaining to both spine and foredge; thus very good in stapled wrappers. Scarce. [#026836] $85
$43

(NY), New Rivers Press, 1974. The scarce hardcover issue of his second book, a collection of poetry. The total edition was 600 copies, of which only 200 were issued in cloth; 400 were issued in wrappers. Well-known these days as a writer of fiction and of essays on fiction, Baxter didn't publish his first novel until 1987, seventeen years after his first book (Chameleon) and thirteen years after this title. Inscribed by the author in 1982. Fine in a slightly rubbed, else fine dust jacket. [#911007] $650
$455

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
$163

(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
$40

(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
$98

Tucson, Firsts, 1997. The full year, 11 issues (#7/8 is one issue). Articles on Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dickens, Richard Ford, Ayn Rand, the Booker Prize, etc. Fine. May require added postage. [#036319] SOLD

Tucson, Firsts, 1998. 10 issues (#7/8 is one issue; #9 is missing). Cover articles include Kurt Vonnegut, Mark Twain, Ian Fleming, movie source books, etc. Fine. May require added postage. [#036320] SOLD

London, Belmont Press, 2002. Of a total edition of 226, this is the "standard" issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by Carey and by the illustrator, Eileen Hogan. Fine, without dust jacket, as issued. [#911433] SOLD

Houston, Arte Publico Press, 1984. Inscribed by the author in 1986. Fine in wrappers. [#914438] $150
$98

(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
$1,500

San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1970. First printing, as determined by the word "decadence" partially missing page 17; and with a couple pages (26-27) having mis-aligned art, with panels printed too close to the edge. Near fine. [#036377] $75
$38

1980. Long galley sheets for Dick's novel VALIS (Vast Active Living Intelligence System), a 1981 paperback original. The VALIS galley sheets are dated 6-23-80: approximately 68 sheets of 25" in length, age-toned with minimal edge wear, in a custom folding chemise and slipcase. Casual inspection revealed one textual difference from the published version. Near fine. Also laid in is a very good copy of the proof of the Bantam covers, which differs from the final version by virtue of the absence of the Bantam logo on the front cover. A very scarce issue of the book that would become the capstone to Dick's literary career. Long galleys such as these are seldom produced in more than a couple of copies, and very seldom turn up for books that were issued as paperback originals. It's ironic that Dick's culminating novel, which transcends science fiction's usual boundaries, would be issued as a paperback original: Dick had so many books issued as paperback originals in the 1950s and 60s, before his books came to be regularly published in hardcover, that the Science Fiction Writers of America named an award after him, the Philip K. Dick Award, for the best SF novel issued as a paperback original. Dick spent the last several years of his life striving for recognition as more than a science fiction writer, and VALIS could have been that break-out novel, had it not reverted him to his former identity as a writer of paperback originals. A rare issue of a major Dick novel. As far as we can tell, unique. [#032867] $8,000
$6,000

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
$81

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1988. A 120-page screenplay by Ford for a 1991 film adaptation that he did from stories in his collection Rock Springs. Signed by Ford. An unknown number of copies were produced, but Ford signed seven of them at a reading in 1990. Photo-reproduced sheets on 3-hole paper. In this copy, page 120 was typed on a different typewriter than the first 119 pages. Bound in a flexible blue binder; fine. The film was directed by Michael Fields and starred Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard and Valerie Perrine. [#911202] $1,000
$700

(n.p.), (n.p.), 1988. A 120-page screenplay by Ford for a 1991 film adaptation he did from stories in his collection Rock Springs. The film was directed by Michael Fields and starred Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard and Valerie Perrine. Apparently a later generation photocopy, as the text is less sharp; also the rectos of the pages tend to stick to the versos of the pages preceding. This copy is signed by the author. Near fine, in maroon binder. [#911203] $1,000
$700

Baltimore, Contemporary Poetry, 1944. A collection of poems, one of 1000 copies. A nice association copy, inscribed by the author to a painter, the wife (for a time) of a poet. A fine copy in a worn dust jacket severed at the spine. A fragile wartime book. [#016232] $250
$163

NY, Basic Books, (2018). The John Burroughs Medal-winning author of Feathers takes on the long evolution and recent decline of the insects responsible for a third of our food supply, besides being fascinating in their own right. This copy is signed by the author, with a drawing of a bee alongside his signature. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with the upper outer corners tapped. [#036437] SOLD

Iowa City, Image & Idea, (1978). An original filmscript, published in the Student Screenplay series. "A tragic story of the U.S. Marines and their impact on the people of the Orient during the Vietnam war." Fine in wrappers. [#028654] $60
$30

London, Deutsch, 1968. An advance copy of the British edition of his fourth book, a reflection on the forces that shaped the writers of the Beat Generation. This advance format seems to have been created from a disbound American first edition [NY: Dutton, 1967]; it is stamped "Advance American Copy/ Probable Publication Date June 1968 (entered by hand)/ Approx. Price (not filled in)/ Andre Deutsch/ 105 Great Russell St/ London W.C. I." Beneath the stamp, there are what appear to be initials, and we'd like to say they are those of renowned editor Diana Athill (based on her "D" often being made like a vertical ichthys), but we're uncertain. Holmes's first novel, Go, has been called the seminal novel of the Beat Generation, predating Kerouac's On the Road by five years. Holmes is also credited with inventing the phrase "beat generation." Modest foxing to edges and covers; very good in wrappers. [#035581] SOLD

Manuscript poem entitled "Subjunctive Tense," but eventually published, with significant changes, as "If We Could Be Brought" (first line). Signed by Ignatow. Undated. Lower corner stain, not affecting text; very good. [#035886] $150
$98

NY, Random House, (1978). His second book, featuring Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen. Inscribed by Jackson to Steve Krauzer: "For my beloved, esteemed and always fascinating pal, Love, Jon." Krauzer is unnamed in the inscription, but the book is from Krauzer's estate. Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#027921] SOLD

NY, The New Yorker, 1968-1988. Kael's own copies of 190 of her "Current Cinema" columns for The New Yorker, which she wrote for over two decades. All but two of these (one from 1968 and one from 1970) date from 1980 forward, following her leave of absence to try her hand in Hollywood. Included here are 20-26 columns for each of the years 1981-1987; 9 from 1980; and 13 from 1988. Several copies of each issue are present, which Kael has clipped together. Kael has also written the date on the majority, which tend to lack a printed date; and approximately a dozen columns bear Kael's corrections, markings or comments, in addition to one or two showing a copy-editor's changes. The first issue present, November 16, 1968, reviewing the forgettable Sean Connery vehicle Shalako, has Kael's note attached: "Ugh." The lot is near fine. [#035647] $2,500
$1,875

(n.p.), (n.p.), ca. 1961-1963. A portrait of a smiling Kennedy, presumably taken during his years as President. Inscribed by Kennedy: "To Bill/ with very best wishes/ John Kennedy." From the estate of Doris Dana, the partner and translator of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral, the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We were presented with the possibility that the inscription was to William Carter, Chief of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, but any connection he may have had to Kennedy, decades earlier, is lost to us. 8" x 10". Two pinholes to top margin, marginal tear to top edge; half-inch tear on right side; light creasing and minor edge wear; very good. [#036417] $3,500
$2,625

(London), Golden Handshake, (1997). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife "Miss you!" Near fine in wrappers. The cover has a label offering a CD inside; no CD included. [#033796] $50
$25

(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
$81

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
$33

NY, St. Martin's, (1997). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone and his wife, in the year of publication, "dear friends that I miss seeing." Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#033751] $75
$38

Eugene, Lone Goose, 1997. Copy "A" of 16 participants' copies of this limited edition of this essay from Crossing Open Ground, later published in a trade edition by the University of Georgia Press. Here issued with twenty-three 11-3/4" x 11" woodblock images by Robin Eschner, which are hinged in a continuous presentation almost 22 feet long, encompassing the text. An elaborate production, involving a number of individuals prominent in the book arts, in addition to Lopez and Eschner: Charles Hobson, the designer, whose work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum and the National Gallery of Art, among others; Sandy Tilcock, the publisher and boxmaker; Susan Acker, the letterpress printer; Nora Pauwells, the relief edition printer; and John DeMerritt, the binder, who was President of the Hand Bookbinders of California. The total edition was 66 copies: this is Copy A of 16 lettered copies signed by Lopez and Eschner and including a unique tire-tread print from Lopez's Toyota 4-Runner, the vehicle used in the journey from Oregon to Indiana that is described in the story. Fine, in a clamshell box. [#035200] $3,500
$2,625

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1969). Inscribed by the author: "For ____/ with feelings that cannot speak in ink and cannot help it in tears./ Kenny/ Princeton/ 17 September 1969." A bulky book with a bit of a sag to the text block and vertical creasing to the half-title where the book is inscribed; still near fine in a very good dust jacket with minor edge wear and a bit of dampstaining visible on verso. [#028799] SOLD

NY, Knopf, 2009. Inscribed by the author: "To Indra and TV -- my Five finger friends who defy the laws of aging. Running is magic." (FiveFinger is a minimalist shoe made by Vibram.) Born to Run was an unlikely bestseller exploring the running traditions and prowess of the Tarahumara of Mexico, written by an advocate, virtually a guru, of ultramarathoning. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed. [#035983] SOLD

(n.p.), (New Directions), (1962). One of 8000 copies in wrappers of Merton's meditation on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Inscribed by Merton: "For Doris/ from Tom." Doris Dana and Merton met in 1966, having been introduced by Dana's godfather, Jacques Maritain. Dana visited Merton at the Gethsemani monastery twice in 1967, and the two maintained a correspondence until Merton died in December, 1968. Foxing to covers, and a creased bump to the spine crown; very good in wrappers. Mailing label from the Abbey of Gethsemani, made out to Dana in Merton's hand is included. There was a signed limited edition of this title done -- 500 copies -- which is uncommon now; signed copies of the trade edition are considerably scarcer, especially with a good association as this one has. [#035855] $1,500
$1,125

NY, Norton, (1997). The advance reading copy (marked "uncorrected proof copy") of the first book in Mosley's Socrates Fortlow series, one of the prolific author's several series, among his more than 60 books written over a span of 35 years. This was made into a television movie starring Laurence Fishburne as Socrates. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers. [#036420] SOLD

(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
$48

NY, Macmillan, 1948. An early work by this scholar who often delved into the interplay of science and literature or the literary imagination and who here turns her attention to the possibilities for lunar travel and habitation, in fact and fiction. Includes a bibliography on the history of flight from 1493 to 1784. Nicolson earned her PhD at Yale; did postdoctoral work at Johns Hopkins; taught at the University of Minnesota, Goucher College and Smith College, where she also served as dean of the faculty; in 1941, she became the first female full professor at Columbia, later becoming the chair of Columbia's graduate department of English and Comparative Literature and president of the Modern Language Association. This copy is inscribed by Nicolson "For Jane Kaufman/ one of the students to whom this book is dedicated/ Marjorie Hope Nicolson." The book's printed dedication reads "To the Smith College Students in 'Science and Imagination' 1936-1941/ from whose ingenious and amusing term papers their teacher learned more than she taught." The inscription is on an index card, tipped to the front flyleaf. Sunning to the board edges; a very good copy in a supplied dust jacket with shallow edge chipping and rubbing to the folds. [#036451] $350
$228

(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
$30

NY, Atlantic Monthly, (2000). An epistolary mystery about a missing pet problem advice columnist. Illustrated by Edward Koren. Inscribed by the author to Peter [Matthiessen] and his wife; signed, "love, George, with an added "Happy New Year!!" Fine in a fine dust jacket. [#032515] $300
$195

NY, Knopf, (1988). The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition of the second book in his Sally Lockhart trilogy. Light red splashes on lower spine; near fine in wrappers. [#023040] $250
$163

New Rochelle, Elizabeth Press, (1968). Inscribed by Randall to the British playwright Arnold Wesker in 1968: "For Arnold - w/all good wishes, Margaret/ 5.68." Randall, in addition to being a poet, co-founded El Corno Emplumado, a bilingual literary journal in Mexico that featured new writing from the Americas and elsewhere, until it was forced to close by the Mexican government after Randall's outspoken support of the Mexican student movement in 1968, and her criticism of the government's violent and deadly response to it. This is a fine copy in a very good dust jacket marred by a coffee stain near the lower spine, mostly on the rear panel. [#035324] $100
$65

NY, FSG, (2015). The advance reading copy of this collection of essays. This was Robinson's ninth book after four books of fiction and four books of nonfiction, which together brought her a Pulitzer Prize, two National Book Critic Circle Awards, and an Orange Prize. Robinson, who was interviewed by President Obama in the year this book was published, also received a National Humanities Medal from the President, in 2012. Fine in wrappers. [#036006] $125
$81

(Palermo), (Nuova Ipsa), (2000). Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone, in 2004: "Maybe I've made a mistake but each discovery is begun in this way." With a full-page typed letter signed laid in, thanking Robert Stone (if this is the Robert Stone, author of Dog Soldiers and Bay of [the] Souls), for words he wrote about her manuscript: "I'm cherishing these words like the most important literature's prize and I wish I'll say to him one day." The letter is fine though folded in thirds; the book is fine in wrappers. [#033806] $75
$38

Ottawa, Borealis, 1974. Her second book. Fine in wrappers. [#912740] $100
$65

NY, Dutton, (1987). A review copy of this collection of poetry. Mild age toning to pages, else fine in a fine dust jacket, with review slip, author photo and promotional pages laid in. [#916868] $100
$65

Cambridge, Pym-Randall, (1975). Apparently the trade edition. (There was a boxed signed limited edition.) Four long sheets of concrete poetry, folded (by design) and inserted into the publisher's envelope. Apparent dried glue to the edge of three of the sheets, not affecting text; else near fine. [#035225] $40
$20

NY, Weatherhill/Autumn Press, (1972). The revised edition. "51W3" stamped to half title; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. [#036053] SOLD

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] SOLD

Cambridge, Leavitt & Peirce, 1958. The hardcover issue of this very early appearance in print by Updike. Harvard alumni commemorate the 75th anniversary of a tobacco store and gathering place; Updike contributes a poem, "The Old Tobacconist." Slight foxing to top edge, else fine in a near fine, orginal glassine dustwrapper. [#030276] $225
$146

(n.p.), Albondocani, (1974). A card with a poem by Updike, used as a holiday greeting. One of 75 copies of the suppressed first issue, with the front cover drawing printed upside down. Fine in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. [#011637] $100
$65

Brockport, BOA, 1977. Second printing. Inscribed by the author to Robert Stone, in 1996, "in fellowship." Fine in wrappers. [#033810] $45
$23

(Menlo Park), Portola, 1970. First printing. Edge wear to covers and spine; modest dampstaining at text edges; about very good in wrappers. [#035749] $50
$25

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1992. The uncommon hardcover issue of this collection of poems. Unmarked, but from the library of the author. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a slight crimp at the crown. [#034478] $50
$25