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240. MALAMUD, Bernard. The Natural. NY: Harcourt Brace (1952). His first book, one of the great baseball novels of all time and the basis, decades later, for a well-received movie. Spine crown bumped, abrasion to front pastedown; a near fine copy of the issue in gray boards, in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with light wear at the spine extremities. In a custom folding chemise and slipcase. A very nice copy of this book, which has become increasingly difficult to find in collectible condition in recent years, the unlaminated dust jacket being prone to rubbing, chipping and overall wear.
241. MALLEA, Eduardo. The Bay of Silence. NY: Knopf, 1944. The first American edition of this Argentine author's first book. Staining to endpages; near fine in a near fine, very slightly spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket, with some faint staining to the verso. An attractive copy of a major novel by one of the Latin American writers whose work anticipated, and helped lead to, the "boom" in Latin American literature two decades later.
242. MAMET, David. True and False. Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor. NY: Pantheon Books (1997). The uncorrected proof copy of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's advice to actors. Fine in wrappers.
243. MARON, Margaret. Autograph Postcard Signed. November 18, 1996. A brief note by the award-winning mystery novelist agreeing to sign copies of her book and thanking the recipient for his kind words. Fine.
244. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Race Rock. NY: Harper & Brothers (1954). The author's first novel, published just after he returned from Paris, where he helped found the Paris Review. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. This is the issue in blue cloth and black boards; the priority has not been determined. Love's ownership signature on front flyleaf (and hunting license page 112); offsetting from laid in review on pp. 42-43; spine cloth faded. Still about near fine, lacking the dust jacket. Also laid in is a postcard from a bookstore, quoting the book to Love for $5.00, in 1967. The book is dedicated to Deborah Love; she and Matthiessen were married from 1963 until her death in 1972. Kennett Love was a former New York Times reporter, specializing in Middle Eastern affairs. His book, Suez: The Twice-Fought War, is considered the standard work on the subject. He was also involved in a celebrated lawsuit in which a Wall Street Journal writer implied that he had been involved in the 1953 Iranian coup that brought the Shah to power, and that Love's involvement was CIA-related. An excellent association copy, being inscribed to the brother of the dedicatee.
245. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Partisans. NY: Viking, 1955. First edition of his second novel, set in Paris, where Matthiessen lived for a number of years and where he helped found the Paris Review. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. Offsetting to endpages; otherwise a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with fading to the orange title block on the spine.
246. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Wildlife in America. NY: Viking, 1959. Matthiessen's first book of nonfiction, a survey of the effect of the Europeans on the fauna of North America and a classic in the field of conservation literature. Shortly after publication, the publisher reported that President John F. Kennedy had added the book to the White House's permanent library. Matthiessen was one of the first primarily "literary" authors to devote his energy to writing about ecological issues, eventually incorporating them and the political questions that they raise into his fiction in a way that set the stage for the generation of socially conscious writers to come. His interest in non-Western ways of perception and knowing -- drawn from tribal traditions as well as from the mystical heritage of the East -- combined with his social concerns to raise the standard for serious, environmentally conscious writers of fiction and other literature. This copy is signed by the author and bears the ownership signature of his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. Top stain faded; else fine in a much rubbed, very good dust jacket with a chip threatening at the spine crown.
247. -. Same title, the revised reissue. NY: Viking (1987). Updated and expanded, with much new information, including a chronology of conservation efforts made over the previous quarter century, and a bibliography. With the ownership signature of Kennett Love, Matthiessen's brother-in-law. Faint dampstaining to cloth; near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
248. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Raditzer. NY: Viking, 1961. Matthiessen's fourth book, third novel, a tale of an outcast seaman on a World War II troop ship. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. Love's ownership signature on front flyleaf and a couple pencilled notes, apparently in his hand, on the rear pastedown. A near fine copy in a very good, spine-sunned dust jacket with a couple closed tears at mid-spine. Again, a nice association copy.
249. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. The Cloud Forest. NY: Viking, 1961. A chronicle of a trip through the Amazon wilderness, his second book of nonfiction and the first of his numerous personal accounts of travel and exploration, with which he has carved out a unique position in our literature. This copy is inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love, and bears Love's ownership signature. Fine in a near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket rubbed along the folds.
250. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Under the Mountain Wall. NY: Viking (1962). His third book of nonfiction, recounting the Harvard-Peabody Expedition to New Guinea to study one of the last "stone age" tribes on the planet, which had been entirely free from contact with Westerners or the artifacts of industrial society. This is the second issue, but the first published edition: virtually all copies of the first issue were withdrawn by the publisher prior to publication as the photo pages were in the wrong place and contrary to the Table of Contents. We have only ever seen three copies of that first issue: nearly all copies were sold to a book club, which tipped in a replacement contents page. This copy, the published, corrected issue, is fine in a near fine, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love, and bearing Love's ownership signature, notes on a rear blank, and a few marginal markings. The book is dedicated to Love's sister Deborah, Matthiessen's wife.
251. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. At Play in the Fields of the Lord. NY: Random House (1965). His fourth novel, which was nominated for the National Book Award and filmed nearly thirty years later. A cautionary tale of various Americans with widely different aims having unintended effects on a tribe of stone age Amazonian Indians, this was the first in-depth fictional treatment of the themes that have dominated Matthiessen's writings, both fiction and nonfiction, over the last 30 years -- the impact of Europeans on the environment and the indigenous cultures that live in harmony with it, from a perspective that combines the political and the spiritual. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love, and bearing Love's ownership signature. Foredge foxed, cloth a bit dusty; near fine in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket with light wear at the spine extremities.
252. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. The Shorebirds of North America. NY: Viking (1967). Large folio edited by Gardner Stout and illustrated by Robert Verity Clem, with text by Matthiessen. A landmark volume, considered the standard book in the field. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love, and bearing Love's 1967 ownership signature. A fine copy of this massive volume, in an edgeworn dust jacket with several stains on the rear panel; about near fine. A wonderful association: signed copies are uncommon, and significant association copies are virtually never seen.
253. -. Another copy, unsigned. Fine in a good, sunned and price-clipped dust jacket splitting along the rear flap fold.
254. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Oomingmak. NY: Hastings House (1967). An unusual, small volume, written for young people, perhaps for use in schools; an account of an expedition to an island in the Bering Sea inhabited by musk oxen. Illustrated with Matthiessen's photographs. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A very nice copy of a somewhat uncommon book which, because of its unlaminated dust jacket, is seldom found in such nice condition.
255. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Sal Si Puedes. NY: Random House (1969). A nonfiction account of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the United Farm Workers to form a migrant workers' union to end the dramatic exploitation of temporary farm labor that was so prevalent in the 1960s and 70s. This book was the subject of a lawsuit, and later issues of the first edition came with a legal disclaimer pasted in. Matthiessen also revised it, and a new edition was issued a couple of years later. A significant piece of reporting and social criticism, chronicling one of the important labor movements of the Sixties, one which had racial and ethnic overtones that have continued to resonate in the years since. Inscribed by the author to his brother-in-law, Kennett Love. Very near fine in a near fine, spine-faded and price-clipped dust jacket.
256. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Far Tortuga. NY: Random House (1975). An unusual novel, almost an extended prose poem, that is, in part, an elegy to the turtle fishermen of the Grand Cayman islands, written in their dialect. Matthiessen at one time ran a fishing boat off the coast of Long Island, and his affinity for the sea shows through repeatedly in his books -- in this book, Raditzer, the books on shore birds, and later, Men's Lives. This copy bears the ownership signature of Kennett Love, by this date Matthiessen's former brother-in-law, as well as his notes on the rear blank, a review by Anatole Broyard, and a membership to the Shelter Island Yacht Club. Some soiling and sunning to boards; a very good copy in a near fine dust jacket.
257. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. New York: Viking (1983). Matthiessen's controversial and suppressed book on the conflict between agents of the federal government and members of the radical American Indian Movement in the 1970s, which culminated in a gun battle that left two FBI agents and one Indian dead. Matthiessen argues that the conviction of Leonard Peltier for the agents' death was a miscarriage of justice. His book was the subject of two lawsuits -- by one of the FBI agents involved in the case and by the former governor of South Dakota -- which effectively suppressed it for nearly a decade. A Supreme Court ruling declining to hear the case after an appeals court had thrown out the suits on the basis of First Amendment considerations finally allowed the book to be reprinted after nine years of litigation and untold millions of dollars in legal expenses -- a harrowing experience for the author, his publishers and (one assumes) their insurers, and a sobering example of how a legal case can effectively suppress a publication even if the case is, as this one turned out to be, finally deemed to be without merit: Matthiessen's book was effectively removed from its target audience for the crucial window of time during which it was most relevant (and agitation on Peltier's behalf might have had the best chance for success). A landmark of literary history and First Amendment tests. This copy is inscribed by Matthiessen to his former brother-in-law, Kennett Love, in the month of publication: "For Gloria & Kenneth/ Read it and weep, all right?/ Love/ Peter." Additionally signed in full by Matthiessen. Small stains to foredges and trace sunning; very near fine in a price-clipped dust jacket. Laid in are two news articles about the legal suit and one about Peltier.
258. -. Same title, the 1991 reissue, with an epilogue that does not appear in the original edition, documenting the legal battles surrounding the book, and an afterword by Martin Garbus. Inscribed by the author to Kennett Love. With Love's ownership signature and a paragraph describing the day he got the book. Fine in a fine dust jacket with the ephemeral wraparound band. Laid in is a "Spirit of Crazy Horse" postcard (drawing by Leonard Peltier) postmarked May 28, 1991 and handwritten from Matthiessen to Love. Fine. For both:
259. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Indian Country. NY: Viking (1984). A collection of essays on various issues related to American Indians, especially those issues having to do with the culture clash between corporations looking to exploit natural resources and tribes asserting their rights to control their land and its uses, while retaining a connection to the traditions by which they lived in harmony with their environment and held the land sacred. According to published reports at the time, it was during the course of researching this book that Matthiessen came upon the story that evolved into In The Spirit of Crazy Horse, which effectively sidelined this work for several years. While the scarcity of Crazy Horse has been well known for some time because of its effective suppression, it has recently become clear that this book is also quite scarce: it doubtless had a smaller first printing than did Crazy Horse, and copies have become hard to find in the past few years. This copy is inscribed by Matthiessen to Kennett Love, his former brother-in-law, on Matthiessen's 57th birthday: "For Gloria & Kenneth/ What a lovely birthday/ lunch under the lilacs!/ We love you/ Peter & Maria/ May 22/ 1984." Additionally signed in full by Matthiessen. Fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
260. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Nine-Headed Dragon River. Boston: Shambhala, 1986. A book of Zen journals spanning the years 1969-1982. Matthiessen began studying Zen in the Sixties and has since become an ordained Zen priest. Fine in a fine dust jacket and bearing the ownership signature of Kennett Love, Matthiessen's former brother-in-law.
261. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. On the River Styx. NY: Random House (1988). A collection of ten short stories, seven of which were collected in Midnight Turning Gray. With the ownership signature of Kennett Love and the added notation "ospreys returned yesterday." Trace sunning to spine cloth and foxing to top edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket. With a review of the book laid in.
262. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Killing Mr. Watson. NY: Random House (1990). A highly acclaimed novel, the first of a trilogy, set in south Florida at the turn of the last century, and based on a historical incident in which a group of individuals conspired to kill a prominent local resident and then cover up the responsibility for the deed. With its elements of class and race conflict, and the implications of development and exploitation of a fragile ecosystem, this novel touches on many of the themes that have run through Matthiessen's writings over the years. Inscribed by the author to Kennett Love. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
263. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. African Silences. NY: Random House (1991). A collection of nonfiction, recounting aspects of his numerous trips to Africa over the years. Fine in a near fine dust jacket and bearing the ownership signature of Kennett Love.
264. MATTHIESSEN, Peter. Lost Man's River. NY: Random House (1997). The second novel in the trilogy that began with Killing Mr. Watson and concluded with Bone by Bone. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
265. (MATTHIESSEN, Peter). The Observer Prize Stories. London: Heinemann (1952). Matthiessen's first book appearance, "The Centrepiece," in this collection of Christmas stories. Foxing to page edges and endpapers; a very good copy in a good dust jacket with a chip at the crown, surface soiling on the rear panel and a closed tear on the front panel. Precedes the U.S. publication of Race Rock by two years.
266. (MATTHIESSEN, Peter). Deborah Love Matthiessen. (n.p.): (n.p.) (1972). A small booklet prepared as testament to the life of Deborah Love Matthiessen, using words of hers and of Peter Matthiessen's as well as sentiments from eastern spiritual traditions. This copy belonged to Deborah's brother: a mailing envelope addressed to him is included. Small quarto. One stapled signature loosely inserted into wrappers. Near fine. Reportedly, only about 100 copies of this were done making this an important family association copy of one of the scarcest items in the Peter Matthiessen canon.
267. MAXWELL, William. The Folded Leaf. NY: Vintage Books (1959)[c.1965]. The first Vintage edition, for which Maxwell made some slight revisions. A bit of sunning and creasing to the spine; near fine in wrappers.
268. MAXWELL, William. The Château. NY: Knopf, 1961. A novel set in France in the aftermath of World War II. Signed by the author. Laid in is a typed noted signed by Maxwell, on New Yorker notepaper, requesting a copy of a review for this title. The note is folded in half; else fine. The book is fine in a near fine dust jacket.
269. MAXWELL, William. The Old Man at the Railroad Crossing and Other Tales. NY: Knopf, 1966. A collection of stories, now somewhat uncommon. Inscribed by the author in 1981, with a notation alluding to p. 172. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
270. MAXWELL, William. Ancestors. NY: Knopf, 1971. His first book of nonfiction. Inscribed by the author to Glenway Westcott in the month before publication: "Glenway from Bill Maxwell,/ devotedly." With Westcott's bookplate. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. A wonderful association copy.
271. -. Another copy. Inscribed by the author to poet David [Ignatow] "with best wishes." Fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny and closed edge tears. Again, a fine literary association copy.
272. MAXWELL, William. So Long, See You Tomorrow. NY: Knopf, 1980. A short novel, his first in eighteen years. Inscribed by the author to poet David [Ignatow] "with best wishes." Fine in a fine dust jacket and a good literary association.
273. (MAXWELL, William). Stories. NY: Farrar Straus Cudahy (1956). A collection of stories by William Maxwell, John Cheever, Jean Stafford and Daniel Fuchs. Foredge foxing and sunning to spine cloth; near fine in a near fine, lightly edgeworn and price-clipped dust jacket.
274. McBAIN, Ed. The Last Dance. (NY): Simon & Schuster (1999). The uncorrected proof copy of this novel in the author's highly regarded 87th Precinct series. Fine in wrappers.
275. McCARTHY, Cormac. The Stonemason. (Hopewell): Ecco (1994). The trade edition of his first play, which had a first printing of 7500 copies (compared with 150,000 copies for The Crossing, which was issued at about the same time). This copy is signed by the author three months prior to publication. There was a signed edition of this title, issued with a limitation of 350 copies, but those were signed on a tipped-in leaf. McCarthy is quite reclusive, and trade editions signed by him are scarce.
276. McCRACKEN, Elizabeth. Autograph Note Signed. (August, 1996). A paragraph apologizing for her delay in responding and agreeing to sign books. McCracken is the author of The Giant's House and Here's Your Hat, What's Your Hurry? and was selected by Granta magazine as one of its 20 best young American authors. Signed by the author. Fine, with envelope.
277. McMURTRY, Larry. In a Narrow Grave. Austin: Encino, 1968. The signed limited edition of this collection of essays, McMurtry's first book of nonfiction and his first limited edition. One of 250 numbered copies bound in quarter leather and signed by the author. This copy is additionally inscribed to Peter Bogdanovich: "For Peter/ of all my books/ this is the one I read/ with the most/ surprise. I was/ awfully happy when I/ wrote it -- I don't/ know what difference/ that made, though -- / Love, Larry." Bogdanovich directed and co-wrote, with McMurtry, the film version of McMurtry's The Last Picture Show in 1971. With Bogdanovich's ownership signature and stamp on front pastedown. A bit of tanning to the spine leather; else fine in slipcase. A scarce limited edition and an excellent inscription and association copy.
278. McPHEE, John. The Headmaster. NY: FSG (1966). McPhee's second book, a portrait of Frank L. Boyden, the longtime Headmaster of Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, where McPhee was a student during Boyden's tenure. Owner name; else fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight edge wear. Laid in is a 1972 newspaper clipping about Boyden.
279. McPHEE, John. Giving Good Weight. NY: FSG (1979). A collection of essays and articles from The New Yorker, one of which -- a profile of an anonymous, but purportedly excellent, restaurateur -- created controversy when the subject of the article speculated that a prominent New York restaurant used frozen fish for one of its plates. Heated denials and threats of libel suits followed, and McPhee issued a retraction in a later issue -- the first time such a thing had happened in the New Yorker's history. In the book, the offending passage is footnoted, along with a disclaimer. This copy is inscribed by the author on November 5, 1980: "For ____ ____/ with appreciation of a/ lovely gesture/ on a memorable day/ John McPhee." Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
280. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby-Dick or The Whale. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1851. The first American edition of Melville's classic work, which had been published in a slightly expurgated version a month earlier in England in three volumes, entitled The Whale. Interestingly, although now widely viewed as "the greatest work of American fiction" and "the central masterpiece of American literature," Moby Dick -- while it signaled a sea change in Melville's literary fortunes -- took him in a direction that is little recognized in retrospect. Prior to publishing it, Melville had been a moderately successful popular author, using his experiences and adventures on sailing ships in the South Seas as grist for a number of popular adventure novels. In 1850, having moved to Pittsfield, Massachusetts and become close with Nathaniel Hawthorne, and having begun to read more widely than he ever had before -- the works of a number of novelists and philosophers -- he embarked on a much more ambitious literary project, in which the adventure story of a sea captain's hunt for a whale became a conscious allegory for the quest for self-knowledge and truth. The novel included complex elements of social criticism -- Queequeg the whaler is a noble savage, a "George Washington cannibalistically developed" -- and it was not well-received, described by one scholar as having been "too difficult for critics and public in a sentimental time." Rather than being the harbinger for ever-increasing success and acclaim, Moby-Dick, which was published when the author was 32, signaled the beginning of its author's slide into obscurity and reclusiveness. By the time he turned 40 years old, Melville had turned almost exclusively to poetry, which was printed in small "vanity" volumes and distributed only to a small circle of acquaintances. His reputation only began to recover after his death, and it was secured in 1929 by Lewis Mumford's biography, Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision. Extreme edges and front hinge strengthened; outer pages foxed; name on title page; ownership stamp abraded from lower page edges and library code rubbed from lower spine. Still, a very good copy, crisp and tight, with the spine showing virtually none of the fading common to this title and the gilt stamping still bright and clear, and the inner pages of the text block virtually free of the foxing that is endemic to this title; much more attractive than usually found. The total first printing was 3000 copies, and the unsold ones were destroyed in a warehouse fire in 1853, making first editions even scarcer than the small printing would suggest. An attractive copy of a high spot -- perhaps the high spot -- of American literature. In a custom folding chemise and slipcase.
281. MERTON, Thomas. Spiritual Direction and Meditation. (Collegeville): Liturgical Press (1960). Material revised and expanded from the magazine Sponsa Regis. Several underlinings in text; otherwise fine, with dust jacket designed to cover the lower 85% of the book.
282. MERWIN, W.S. The Folding Cliffs. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of his latest book, a narrative in the form of a single long poem. Fine in wrappers.
283. MICHAELS, Anne. Fugitive Pieces. NY: Knopf, 1997. The first American edition of this poet's highly acclaimed first novel, a bestseller in Canada, winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Orange Prize. Signed by the author in the month of (U.S.) publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
284. MICHENER, James. Tales of the South Pacific. NY: Macmillan, 1950. A limited edition of his classic, first published in 1947. This is the "American Booksellers Edition." One of 1500 copies signed by the author. Ownership name and date of Kennett Love, a former New York Times reporter on the Middle East as well as a friend of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Lucien Carr, and the brother-in-law of author Peter Matthiessen; stripes of offsetting to endpages; fading to spine gilt; near fine, without dust jacket, as issued.
285. MICHENER, James. Ventures in Editing. Huntington Beach: Cahill, 1995. Two essays by Michener, "My Advice to Young America," which takes a long view of a writing life, and "The Writer and His Machine," which takes a hard look at kidney failure. Two versions of each essay are included, together with an introduction by Michener about the machinations of the editing process. There were 300 copies: this is a proof copy bound in maroon cloth and with the colophon of the lettered edition, which was bound in lavender cloth. Fine in a fine slipcase. Signed by the author.
286. -. Same title, the publisher's archive. Includes a ten page computer printout of "The Writer and His Machine," which varies in small measure from the first version in the book, and a 17 page computer printout, which varies from all versions. An unsigned Michener note says about this second version ("This Fourth Version of the manuscript, the final version"): "We have indicated by bold face the new material..." His note covers several options for dealing with printing two such similar versions of the essay. Also included is a 12-page typescript fax corresponding to the first version of "My Advice to Young America." This is on legal paper, folded up to letter size, with the text handwritten in where it ran off the bottom. Together with a (secretarially) typed note signed by Michener from 1993, declining that he has any essays suitable for an edition. Except for the folded legal pages; all elements are fine. Original manuscript material by Michener, one of the most popular American authors of all time, is scarce.
287. MILLHAUSER, Steven. Typed Note Signed. February 19, 1997. A brief note agreeing to sign a book, probably his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Martin Dressler, which had just been published the previous year. Signed by the author. Folded for mailing; fine, with envelope.
288. MILLHAUSER, Steven. Enchanted Night. NY: Crown (1999). The advance reading copy (marked "Uncorrected Proof") of his latest book, a novella. Rubbing to spine folds; near fine in wrappers.
289. MONTAGUE, John. The Rough Field. (Dublin): Dolmen Press (1972). A collection of poems by this American-born Irish poet, who often writes of the pain of displacement. This copy is warmly inscribed by the author in verse: "The poet singing in pain/ of his province broken/ from the historic nation:-" and further inscribed to the daughter of Joseph McGarrity: "For Mary,/ remembering/ all the McGarritys/ who loved our land./ July ‘77" and signed "John Montague." The elder McGarrity had donated his Irish American Collection to Villanova College in 1940. Light creasing; near fine in wrappers. A wonderful inscription from one of the key modern Irish poets. Laid in is an announcement of the third edition (1979).
290. MONTAGUE, John. A Slow Dance. (Winston-Salem): Dolmen Press/Wake Forest University Press (1975). Warmly inscribed by the author underneath the title on the title page: [A Slow Dance] "of Whitmanian ecstasy/ in the Irish words;/ & of Irish-American/ links;/ John Montague." Near fine in wrappers. Two additional typescript poems laid in: "Sentence for Konarak" and "Beginnings." Typist unclear.
291. MONTAGUE, John. The Great Cloak. (Dublin): Dolmen Press (1978). The trade edition in wrappers of this collection. Signed by the author and inscribed: "The songs of love,/ both sad & gay;/ John Montague." A few spots to cover; near fine in wrappers.
292. MONTAGUE, John. A Flowering Absence. NY: At-Swim Press (1986). A limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by the author. Edge sunning on the rear panel; else fine in saddle-stitched wrappers.
294. MOORE, Lorrie. Anagrams. London: Faber & Faber (1987). The first British edition of the second book, first novel by this Granta 20 author. Near fine in a fine, price-clipped dust jacket.
295. MOORE, Lorrie. Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? NY: Knopf, 1994. The uncorrected proof copy of her first novel in eight years, which contrasts the dissolving bonds of marriage with the enduring bonds of an adolescent friendship. Although each of Moore's books prior to this one had received critical praise (as did her most recent, Birds of America), this was her first to become a bestseller. Fine in wrappers.
296. -. Same title, the first British edition. London: Faber & Faber (1994). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
297. MORRIS, Willie. My Cat Spit McGee. NY: Random House (1999). The uncorrected proof copy of the last book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, whose critical and commercial success with his memoir, My Dog Skip, in 1995 inspired this sequel. The proof was prepared while Morris was still living, but he died before the book was published. Fine in wrappers.
298. MORRISON, Toni. Paradise. NY: Knopf, 1998. The uncorrected proof copy of the latest novel by the Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author of Beloved, among others. Published to near-universal praise, with a first printing announced as 400,000 copies. Fine in wrappers.
299. MOSLEY, Walter. Gone Fishin'. Baltimore: Black Classic Press (1997). The sixth Easy Rawlins novel, this one a prequel to the series. Published by a small black-owned press. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
300. MOSLEY, Walter. Blue Light. Boston: Little Brown (1998). Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
301. MOSLEY, Walter. Walkin' the Dog. Boston: Little Brown (1999). The second Socrates Fortlow novel. Signed by the author. Fine in a fine dust jacket.