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110. HANNAH, Barry. Geronimo Rex. NY: Viking (1972). His first book, which was nominated for the National Book Award and won the William Faulkner Prize. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1987: "For Sam Lawrence,/ My great publisher/ and friend. Long may/ you reign -- Barry Hannah." An excellent association: Lawrence became Hannah's publisher in the mid-1980s, and Hannah stayed with him until Lawrence died. One of his later books, Never Die, was dedicated to Lawrence. Top edges faded, shadow front pastedown; else near fine in a near fine dust jacket tanned at the top edge.
111. HANNAH, Barry. Nightwatchmen. NY: Viking (1973). His second and, according to many, scarcest book. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1988. Edge-sunned cloth; otherwise near fine in a very good, heavily and unevenly sunned dust jacket.
112. HANNAH, Barry. Airships. NY: Knopf, 1978. His third book and first collection of stories, widely considered a contemporary classic of the new Southern Gothic. Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence in 1986. Top edges sunned; near fine in a near fine spine- and edge-sunned dust jacket.
113. HANNAH, Barry. Hey Jack! NY: Dutton/Lawrence (1987). Inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence, who published the book, in 1987: "For Sam,/ My great good/ publisher and pal!/ Barry Hannah." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
114. HANNAH, Barry. Never Die. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Lawrence, 1991. The uncorrected proof copy, again inscribed by the author to Seymour Lawrence, the publisher: "For the Inimitable and Gallant Sam L,/ From a friend who owes him/ for heart, patience and bright/ events in the lit world. May/ you prosper and receive/ the best joys and illumination./ Yours,/ Barry H." Light corner creases; else fine in wrappers. Laid in is a Houghton Mifflin envelope, on which is written: "Looks delightful!/ Thanks,/ Barry." A wonderful inscription, and a unique copy of this title.
115. HARRISON, Jim. Legends of the Fall. (NY): Delta (1994). A later printing of a later, trade paperback edition, issued after the release of the movie. This copy is inscribed by Harrison to Ai, "my fellow poet," with a typical Harrison-esque self-caricature. A nice literary association copy. Near fine in wrappers.
116. HAUPTMAN, Terry. Rattle. (Tulsa): (Cardinal Press) (1982). A collection of poetry, with an introduction by Meridel LeSueur and illustrations by the author. Inscribed by the author to the poet Jay Wright, a winner of an NEA Fellowship and a MacArthur Foundation Award, among other honors. Only issued in wrappers; fine.
117. HAZO, Samuel. Blood Rights. (n.p.): U. of Pittsburgh Press (1968). A collection of poems, inscribed by the author to Denise Levertov, and bearing her ownership sticker. Hazo's collection Once for the Last Bandit was a finalist for the National Book Award. Levertov was one of the most important American poets of the postwar era. Very good in wrappers.
118. HELLER, Michael. Accidental Center. Fremont: Sumac Press (1972). The author's first book, a collection of poems. One of 100 numbered copies signed by the author of a total hardcover edition of 126. Additionally inscribed by Heller to poet Cid Corman, whose accession notation is written at the bottom of the front endpaper: "For Cid/ I've tried to make the book/ justify its last three lines. I hope/ you enjoy, are moved, by some of this.../ with friendship, respect & love./ Mike." The last three lines of the book read: "for the otherness is beautiful/ and terror and delight/ in the same moment flood the heart." Cloth mottled; about very good in a near fine dust jacket, designed by Heller. A nice association.
119. HEYEN, William. Brockport's Poems. Brockport: Challenger Press (1978). A small press chapbook, one of 300 numbered copies in wrappers, this one inscribed by the author to poet Richard Hugo in 1981, with one holograph correction to the text by the author. Heyen has been the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, among others. His 1996 collection, Crazy Horse in Stillness, won the 1997 National Small Press Book Award for Poetry. Hugo was one of the most important American poets of the West during the postwar era; his writings helped the literature of the West transcend its regional identity and become fully a part of the American canon. Two of his poetry collections were National Book Award finalists. Fine in stapled wrappers.
120. HEYEN, William. The Bees. (Syracuse): Tamarack (1981). An attractive letterpress chapbook, one of 250 numbered copies in wrappers of a total edition of 376, again inscribed by the author to Richard Hugo and dated in the year of publication. Fine in wrappers. A nice production.
121. HOAGLAND, Edward. Notes from the Century Before. NY: Random House (1969). His first book of nonfiction, subtitled "A Journal from British Columbia." A personal recollection of the author's travels, which also touches on the history, both natural and cultural, of the region. Inscribed by the author to poet Edwin Honig in the month preceding publication. Honig is a much-decorated poet who founded the Brown University Graduate Program in Creative Writing. Light spotting and fading to the top edges of the pages, otherwise fine in jacket with mild surface soiling and slight wear at the spine crown, otherwise also fine. A nice association and an early signature on this acclaimed and important volume. Hoagland, whose fiction has won literary awards, is nonetheless most highly acclaimed as one of the finest essayists of our time, and his first book of nonfiction is a landmark in his writing career.
122. IGNATOW, David. New and Collected Poems, 1970-1985. Middletown: Wesleyan U. Press (1986). The simultaneous issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to the poet Ai in the year of publication, "with love, naturally." A nice association copy. Fine in wrappers.
123. INGE, William. Summer Brave & Eleven Short Plays. NY: Random House (1962). Inscribed by the author to novelist Charles Jackson, author of The Lost Weekend, among others: "For Charlie One of my dearest friends" and signed "Bill Inge," at Christmas, 1962. An excellent association. Inge won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, Picnic, and was nominated for an Oscar for the screenplay of Splendor in the Grass. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.
124. JUNKINS, Donald. And Sandpipers She Said. Amherst: U. of Massachusetts Press, 1970. The softcover issue of this collection of poems, inscribed by the author to the poet Ai (Florence Anthony) in 1976. Junkins is a highly praised poet, with over ten collections published; translator (the New York Times called his translation of Euripides' Andromache "lovely and dignified"); and Hemingway scholar. Fine in wrappers.
125. KAZIN, Alfred. A Walker in the City. NY: Harcourt, Brace (1951). His second solely-authored book, after On Native Grounds. Inscribed by the author to Charles Shapiro, with whom Kazin would co-edit The Stature of Theodore Dreiser, published in 1955: "Charles Shapiro,/ from his collaborator and/ friend,/ Alfred Kazin/ NY: March 20, 1953." Board edges a bit worn, sunned, and frayed, front hinge starting, one page corner torn; still a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. A nice association copy.
126. KEARNEY, Lawrence. Kingdom Come. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press (1980). The author's first book, poetry in the Wesleyan series, this being the hardcover issue. Warmly inscribed by the author to his then-wife, the poet Ai (although the address used is "darling"). Fine in a very good dust jacket.
127. KENNY, Maurice. Typescript for Dancing Back Strong the Nation. (n.p.): (n.p.)[1975]. Photocopy of this poetry collection, with holograph corrections by the author. Inscribed by the author to poet Will Inman and dated June 2, 1975. A dramatically different version of this poetry sequence than the one that was finally published under this title in 1979 by the Blue Cloud Abbey Press. Kenny is one of the most important Native American poets of the last quarter century, and he has also published a significant body of ethnic writing by other authors through his own press, Strawberry Hill. Kenny won the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1984 for his collection The Mama Poems. Inman was a poet who lived in the Southwest (this typescript was signed at his house in Tucson) who was associated with the radical movements of the Sixties and Seventies and as a result had an early appreciation of the significance of Native American perspectives in art and writing. Stapled at upper left corner. A few light spots on top sheet but still overall near fine.
128. KEROUAC, Jack. Signed Greeting Card. Undated, c. 1966-1969. A "Thinking of You" card, illustrated with a kitten sitting on top of a pad of paper and below a quill pen; the front panel only, on which Kerouac has written "To Maria/ from Uncle Jack." The verso of the card is filled with a long note addressed to Gaby (presumably Kerouac's mother), who was living with Jack and Stella in Lowell in the late 1960s. A possible scenario has Kerouac recycling the front panel of a used card to give to Maria (a daughter of one of Stella's siblings?). A vertical octagonal shape; very near fine. Autograph material by Kerouac is quite scarce and family inscriptions such as this are rare.
129. KINNELL, Galway. Mortal Acts, Mortal Words. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980. Poetry, this being the simultaneous issue in wrappers. Inscribed by the author to the poet Ai in 1982. Three of Kinnell's earlier collections were National Book Award finalists and his Selected Poems, published the year after this volume, won the National Book Award. Ai won the National Book Award in 1999 for Vice. Spine-sunned; else fine.
130. KINNELL, Galway. Selected Poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982. A collection of poems that won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, a rare literary "double." This copy is inscribed by Kinnell to the poet Ai (Florence Anthony) in the month prior to publication: "For Florence/ for our 16 [?] years/ of friendship/ Galway/ May 27, 1982." Fine in a very good dust jacket with modest rubbing and edge wear. An excellent association copy between two National Book Award-winning poets.
131. KINNELL, Galway. The Past. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. A collection of poetry, his first after the award-winning Selected Poems. Inscribed by Kinnell to the poet Ai (Florence Anthony): "For Florence -/ who is more than the poet/ I saw in her at twenty/ - with love - / Galway/ 11/16/85." Corner bumped; near fine in a very good dust jacket. A nice association copy.
132. KINNELL, Galway. When One Has Lived A Long Time Alone. NY: Knopf, 1990. Poetry, this being the simultaneous issue in wrappers, inscribed by Kinnell to the poet Ai "with love" in 1992. Fine.
133. (KINNELL, Galway). BONNEFOY, Yves. On the Motion and Immobility of Douve. Athens: Ohio University Press (1968). Poetry translated by Kinnell. Inscribed by Kinnell to Ai (as Florence): "until we meet, at the/ beginning of the world." Two small ink stars on contents page; binding rubbed and marked but still about very good, lacking the dust jacket. An early Kinnell publication and, again, a good association copy.
134. KIZER, Carolyn. The Ungrateful Garden. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press (1961). The first regularly published book, a collection of poems, by a writer whose work is strongly associated with the Pacific Northwest and who later won the Pulitzer Prize. This is a fine copy of the cloth issue, in a spine-faded but otherwise near fine dust jacket, and is inscribed by the author in 1963 to poetry editor and anthologist Oscar Williams. Williams is best-known as an anthologist but began by writing poetry; he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1921. From the 1940s on, he edited a series of poetry anthologies that became quite famous, two of them being used as textbooks at over 100 colleges and universities. He was friends with Wallace Stevens, Allen Tate, John Berryman, Delmore Schwartz, Robert Penn Warren, and many other poets of that generation. A nice association copy of an important first collection.
135. KRAKAUER, Jon. Into Thin Air. (NY): Villard Books (1997). His third solely authored book and an unlikely bestseller, selected as one of The New York Times' eleven best books of the year. Krakauer was sent to Everest by Outside magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the mountain and was party to the May 10, 1996 summit bid that cost five climbers their lives, in a season that claimed twelve. Not signed by Krakauer, but bearing a very personal gift inscription from another nature writer. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
136. KUMIN, Maxine. The Privilege. NY: Harper & Row (1965). Her third book, second collection of poetry, this being the issue in wrappers (there was a simultaneous hardcover issue). Inscribed by the author to novelist Jay Neugeboren in 1967: "in recognition of our behavioral objectives." Spine-faded; very good.
137. KUMIN, Maxine. The Nightmare Factory. NY: Harper & Row (1970). Her third collection of poetry, fifth book. Again, this is the issue in wrappers, there having been a simultaneous hardcover. And, again, inscribed by the author to novelist Jay Neugeboren (and his wife). Slight edge-rubbing; near fine.