Catalog 111, H-J
157. HAMSUN, Knut. August. London: Cassel and Co. (1932). A novel by the Norwegian Nobel Prize winner (1920), the author of Growth of the Soil. This is a review copy, with the publisher's review slip laid in. Foxing to foredge; boards bowed and mottled; very good in a very good, spine-tanned dust jacket stained on the spine and rear panel. An extremely uncommon book in dust jacket, let alone as a review copy.
158. HARDY, Thomas. Human Shows, Far Phantasies, Songs and Trifles. NY: Macmillan, 1925. The first American edition of the last book published in Hardy's lifetime. Poetry; near fine in a mildly sunned, near fine dust jacket with one closed edge tear. A crisp, bright, attractive copy of this title, much nicer than usually encountered.
159. HARRISON, Jim. Plain Song. NY: Norton (1965). Harrison's first book, a collection of poems. This is the scarce hardcover edition, one of 1500 copies; it was also issued simultaneously in wrappers. This copy has a small scuff on the copyright page over the word "First" in the first edition statement (not the first copy we have seen thus); otherwise it is a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket sunned on the rear panel and foxed on the verso.
160. HARRISON, Jim. Selected and New Poems. (NY): Delacorte/Lawrence (1982). Mild edge-sunning, else fine in like dust jacket.
161. HARRISON, Jim. Dalva. NY: Dutton/Lawrence (1988). A novel told from the point of view of a pioneer woman and by consensus one of Harrison's best books, which effectively put the lie to the stereotype of him as a writer of testosterone-laced macho male fantasies and firmly established him as a writer of enormous sensitivity and vision -- or, as one of the dust jacket blurbs from a British critic put it, "a writer with immortality in him." Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Faint foxing to page edges; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
162. HARRISON, Jim. The Raw and the Cooked. NY: Dim Gray Bar, 1992. The limited edition of a collection of Harrison's pieces on food and cooking, from his Esquire column. Of a total edition of 126 copies, this is one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine without dust jacket, as issued.
163. HARRISON, Jim. Julip. Boston/NY: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994. The uncorrected proof copy of this collection of three novellas. Signed by the author on the title page. (The "signature" on the front cover of the proof is a printed one.) Mild spine-fading; else fine in wrappers.
164. HARRISON, Jim. The Beast God Forgot to Invent. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000). The advance reading copy of this new book by Harrison, again a collection of three novellas. Just published to rave reviews. Fine in wrappers.
165. HASFORD, Gustav. The Phantom Blooper. NY: Bantam (1990). His second novel, a sequel to The Short-Timers, with several of the same characters. This is a self-made review copy, sent out by Hasford with a press release cum "funeral notice" imploring attention for a book that was "born dead" due to his editor having, in Hasford's opinion, "gone insane." The press release is signed by the author, and the book is inscribed by Hasford: "For my best friend/ in the whole world:/ _____________/ [Your name here]/ from Gus/ San Clemente/ Feb. 29, 1990." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Hasford achieved great but short-lived fame as the author of The Short-Timers and the co-writer of the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the novel, Full Metal Jacket, for which he was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Writers Guild of America award. Later he served time in jail as a book thief, where his health deteriorated, and he died, alone and for the most part isolated, a few years after being released.
166. HEANEY, Seamus. Field Work. NY: FSG (1979). The first American edition of this collection of poetry by the Irish Nobel Prize winner. Signed by the author in 1982. One page has a small smudge and edge tear, not affecting any text; else fine in a fine dust jacket with a stray pen mark to the cover.
167. HEANEY, Seamus. Diary of One Who Vanished. NY: FSG (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of this translation by Heaney of a song cycle by Leoš Janá ek of poems by Ozef Kalda. With an introduction by Heaney. Fine in wrappers.
168. HELLER, Joseph. Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man. NY: S&S (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of his last novel, completed just before he died and posthumously published. Fine in wrappers.
169. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. NY: Scribner's, 1940. Hemingway's last great novel, a partisan tale of the Spanish Civil War, which he had covered as a journalist, and which was charged with great portentousness in the days leading up to the Second World War. For Whom the Bell Tolls has been called Hemingway's most ambitious novel, and it is the one in which his political convictions reveal themselves most fully: he effectively conveys the idea that a people's freedom is worth fighting, and even dying, for. This passionate defense of the ill-fated Spanish Republic was so compelling that 30 years later, under the Franco government, the book was still entirely banned in Spain; copies were smuggled into the country and passed around surreptitiously. Two owner names on the front flyleaf, some offsetting to the front endpapers, and a bit of rubbing to the spine cloth; still near fine in a very good, first issue dust jacket, rubbed mostly along the spine and flap folds, and inexpertly colored at the extremities, although this is most noticeable on the verso, where there is also one tape repair.
170. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. A Movable Feast. London: Jonathan Cape (1964). The uncorrected proof copy of the first British edition of Hemingway's posthumously published account of his times in Paris in the Twenties. A little bit of spine creasing, more likely from the underlying glue than from reading; else fine in wrappers.
171. HEMINGWAY, Hilary and LINDSAY, Jeffrey. Hunting with Hemingway. NY: Riverhead Books, 2000. The advance reading copy. Ernest Hemingway's niece transcribes a cassette tape of hunting stories told by her father Leicester, Hemingway's younger brother, and interjects her responses to learning more about a father who, like his brother, committed suicide. Fine in wrappers.
172. HEMON, Aleksandar. The Question of Bruno. (London): Picador (2000). The advance reading copy of this inventive and highly praised first book, a collection of stories by a writer from Sarajevo, for whom English is a second language. Fine in wrappers.
173. -. Same title, an earlier state, lacking the title page and copyright page, although with copyright information tipped inside the front cover. Signed by the author. Fine in wrappers.
174. HERR, Michael. Kubrick. NY: Grove (2000). The advance reading copy of Herr's tribute to the director Stanley Kubrick, his friend of nearly two decades and with whom he worked on Full Metal Jacket. Fine in wrappers.
175. HESSE, Hermann. Steppenwolf. NY: Henry Holt (1929). A review copy of the first American edition of the Nobel Prize winner's classic novel of the dark side of an artistic personality. A fine copy, lacking the scarce dust jacket, but with the publisher's review slip laid in. A scarce title, and we have never seen another prepublication copy of it before.
176. HESSE, Hermann. Narcissus and Goldmund. Berlin: G. Fischer Verlag (1930). The first edition, in German, of one of Hesse's major novels, which chronicles the unlikely friendship between a monastic ascetic and a sensual existentialist who is determined to live life to the fullest. In contrasting the two approaches to life's mysteries and human yearnings, Hesse ultimately sees the paths as complementary, each approach augmented not only by the other's but more importantly each individual enriched and fulfilled by the bond of friendship in a way that their solitary paths do not provide. Inscribed by the author beneath a full page drawing of a tree, on a page mounted to the front flyleaf. Slight fading to spine cloth; else fine in a near fine jacket with a slightly tanned spine and a couple of tiny nicks.
177. HILLERMAN, Tony. Listening Woman. NY: Harper & Row (1978). His fourth Navajo mystery, featuring Navajo tribal detective Joe Leaphorn, and preceding the point at which Hillerman's novels became bestsellers. Signed by the author. Fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket creased on the front flap.
178. HOFFMAN, Alice. The River King. NY: Putnam (2000). The advance reading copy of her latest novel. Fine in wrappers.
179. -. Same title, an earlier advance reading copy, shot from typescript and bearing textual differences from the later, typeset issue. Small bump to crown; else fine in wrappers.
180. HUNTER, Stephen. Hot Springs. NY: Simon & Schuster (2000). The uncorrected proof copy of this new action novel by the bestselling author. Fine in wrappers.
181. IRVING, John. The 158-Pound Marriage. NY: Random House (1974). His third novel. Fewer than 2500 copies of this book were sold, although the book went into a second printing. A touch of sunning to the cloth at the spine base; still a fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket with a couple tiny nicks and a crease on the rear flap. Jacket blurbs by Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller and Stanley Elkin.
182. IRVING, John. The Cider House Rules. NY: Morrow (1985). An advance issue of the trade edition. Signed by Irving on the front free endpaper. One very slight corner bump; else fine in a very good glassine dust jacket, as issued. These books were given out by the publisher to sales reps and customers prior to publication and presumably prior to the printing of the dust final dust jacket. Uncommon now, especially with the glassine jacket intact.
183. ISHIGURO, Kazuo. When We Were Orphans. NY: Knopf, 2000. The uncorrected proof copy of the first American edition. Ishiguro won the Booker Prize for his novel The Remains of the Day and the Whitbread Award for An Artist of the Floating World. Fine in wrappers.
184. JACKSON, Jon A. La Donna Detroit. NY: Atlantic Monthly Press (2000). The advance reading copy of the latest novel of Detective Sergeant "Fang" Mulheisen of the Detroit Police Department -- a series of comic, hard-boiled novels that consistently receive glowing critical praise. Fine in wrappers.
185. JACKSON, Shirley. We Have Always Lived in the Castle. NY: Viking (1962). A novel of the macabre by the author of The Lottery and The Haunting of Hill House, and the last of her books published in her lifetime. Fine in a near fine, dusty and price-clipped dust jacket.
186. JHABVALA, Ruth Prawer. The Nature of Passion. London: George Allen and Unwin (1956). The scarce second novel by this author who won the Booker Prize twenty years later for Heat and Dust. A fine copy in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a bit of foxing to the rear panel and trace wear at the spine crown. A very attractive copy of an uncommon title.
187. JOHNSON, Wayne. Six Crooked Highways. NY: Harmony Books (2000). The advance reading copy of this new novel by the author of The Snake Game and Don't Think Twice. Fine in wrappers.
188. JOYCE, James. Corrections of Misprints in Finnegans Wake. NY: Viking Press, 1945. A 16-page pamphlet detailing misprints, "as prepared by the author after publication of the first edition." One of 2000 copies printed, for distribution to purchasers of Finnegans Wake. This copy bears the stamp of the Gotham Book Mart on the front cover; else fine in stapled wrappers.
189. (JOYCE, James). Extracts From Some Press Notices of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. London: Egoist Press, 1916. One sheet, folded to make four pages, with excerpts of reviews by Ezra Pound, H.G. Wells, and many others. Faint spot lower margin; still fine. Uncommon Joyce ephemera.